Tell him it's covered pretty well in Steve Jobs personal blog site.

https://www.apple.com/au/batteries/maximizing-performance/

Tim

Sent from Tim's Retina iPad 2

> On 30 Dec 2019, at 8:20 pm, Pete <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Folks, I'm trying to get my family to understand it is not in any way a good 
> practice to run a computer battery to 0% (or an iOS device) for battery 
> health reasons. My 13yo believes that "it must be run to 0% because that is 
> what Steve Jobs said to do"!
> 
> I can't see how allowing any device to run to flat in turn causing the OSX or 
> iOS to quit in an uncontrolled fashion can be good in any way.
> 
> I understand that 'exercising' batteries to use full span might be a good 
> thing but to 0% I don't get.
> 
> Any tips from others....
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pete
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