Leaving your phone plugged in will help, and I tend to plug my phone in
whenever it's convenient, but it's also meant to be a mobile device, so
I'm not a slave to a charging cable.
Lithium ion batteries have a life span based in something called cycles.
A cycle is when you end up going through a full charge, even if it
happens in increments. For example, if you go down to 80% charge, charge
it up, and then go down to 50% charge, charge it up again, and then go
down to 70% charge you'll have used up one cycle since you used up 20%
and then 50% and then 30% for a total of 100%. This is why it's good to
plug your phone in when you can to save cycles.
Lithium ion batteries also tend to like shallow charges, so again, if
it's convenient, you'll want to charge it up when it gets between 80%
and 40% left on your battery. Again, this is just something they like,
but you won't be doing significant damage to your battery if you let it
run all the way down or top it off when it's only down about 5% or 10%.
There are two things lithium batteries don't like. One is heat, so try
to keep your phone from over heating, like leaving it in a sunny car
with the windows up. They other thing they don't like is losing all of
their charge. This won't happen when you let your battery go down to 0%
since the electronics on your battery will say you're at 0% and shutdown
even though they still have some charge left. What you don't want to do
is let your phone run all the way down and then store it somewhere,
since your battery will lose charge even if the phone is powered off. If
you want to store your phone for some length of time, make sure the
battery is topped off first.
Anyone can check anything I've said by researching this on your own. The
last time I read up on this, Battery University had a good article.
On 6/1/19 12:29 PM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone wrote:
Hello all
Someone I know repeatedly tells me that she keeps her i Phone 6S plugged in
all the time, and that it does not add to the wear on the longtime battery
life of the phone. What I think she is suggesting is that because the phone
is plugged in all the time, (she has an additional battery pack of some sort
as back up when she is out) that the phone never goes through cycles of
recharging which means the battery will last indefinitely.
I have an iPhone 6 and don't know if this applies, or is advisable.
I'm still stuck back in the thinking that the phones only have so
many times they can be charged but how that calculation is made I can't say.
As it is my phone is on almost all the time, I use it for all kinds of
things, never have location services on, and rarely have cellular data on
cause I do not have unlimited, and between reading, podcasts, calender, Tune
In, mail, and miscellaneous other apps, the phone has to be charged daily,
sometimes several times a day.
So is the battery in the iphone 6 the same as the 6S and is
it true that there is an advantage to keeping it plugged in all the time?
Deidre
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