How I Maintain 100% iPhone Battery Health By Brandon Butch

This video is sponsored by Squarespace. What's up guys, my name is Brandon, and ever since battery health was introduced back in iOS 11. A lot of you guys have been asking me questions about how you can keep that percentage as high as possible for as long as possible, so in this video I'm going to be sharing some tips on how I've personally maintained 100% battery life here on my iPhone 11 Pro, which I've been using every day for the last 4 months and on my iPhone 10 are here which I've used daily ever since 2018 now I also have my current daily device right here. The iPhone 11 Pro Macs, and you can see this guy is at 98%. This is the one that my SIM card is in most of the time right now, and then I also have over here my iPhone 10s max, which I use pretty much every day throughout 2018, and that is at 93%. But this one did stay at 100% for a little over seven months, almost eight months.

Actually, this one stayed at 100% battery capacity, so I'm going to share some tips on how I've maintained such good battery life and battery health on all of these devices. Now also make sure you guys do check out my video on the best battery saving tips for your iPhone. That video is more about these software changes you should be addressing, whereas this video is gonna, be more about kind of the daily use and the daily maintenance and the hardware side of things. But if you use the tips in this video in combination with the tips in that video, you will see amazing results on your iPhone when it comes to battery life. Alright, so now, let's discuss the battery health panel inside of settings and what it actually means so, like I said, this feature was first introduced way back on iOS 11.3, to inform you of your battery's overall health and inform you if your iPhone is able to run at its peak performance, which is another important aspect that you need to pay attention to with time, and of course, you can see mine says that my maximum capacity is at 100%. Now this is going to tell you if your battery is strong enough to operate at peak performance, which is basically like running CPU intensive games, benchmark testing, shooting long 4k videos and things like that.

It will just tell you if your phone can work extra hard when it's needed and with time the lithium-ion battery in the iPhones will degrade, and it's not going to perform as good, of course, as it did on the day, you bought it and this guy with any device with a lithium-ion battery, not just an iPhone. When the battery degrades over time, you slowly start to notice that you have less and less time between charges and according to Apple, a normal battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 500 complete charge cycles when operating under normal conditions, so notice how Apple uses a term charge cycles. This is very, very important to know so. A charge cycle is basically when you charge your phone to a hundred percent, and then it dies later that night or the next day, and then you charge it back up from 0% to 100% again now, just because you don't specifically wait until your phone dies doesn't mean that you don't have charge cycles on your battery, because any time you charge your phone, it's adding into a charge cycle. So, for instance, if you start your day off at 100% battery life, and then you plug it in before bed with say, 25% left.

That means that, once you use your phone again the next day and get down to 75 percent battery life, you will have gone through one a full charge cycle. This is because, of course, the first day you discharged 75% of the battery, which is what got you to 25% and then the next day you discharged the other 25% when you've got to 75% battery. So basically any time that you charge and discharge your phone there's math, going on behind the scenes inside the battery to determine when you go through a full charge cycle. I hope you guys are following along with me here, and you can already start to see why it makes so much more sense to charge your phone well before it dies if at all possible and while it is recommended to stay around 80% of battery life. I've, always let my phone's charge overnight.

So I've done this with every iPhone I've ever had, and I've always had the best battery life out of my friends and never really had any kind of battery drain issues at all and charging your phone overnight is not necessarily bad for your iPhone because it uses normal charging speeds to reach 80%, and then it switches over to a slower trickle charge until you get to 100% and then once you're at 100%, your phone starts to run solely off of the chargers, electricity and not the actual lithium-ion battery itself. So no, it is not bad for the battery to charge it overnight, like some people tend to think, but the sweet spot is 50 to 80 percent. So if you can always keep your iPhone around that percentage or in that range, you will be golden. Just don't charge your phone overnight if you're already over 80%, so if you're on, like 80 90 95 % before you go to bed, there's no point in charging your phone you're only gonna, you know hurt your battery. So only if it's below you know 50%, should you charge your phone overnight, and before we move on to the next tip, I wanted to share a little more about today's sponsor Squarespace is an all-in-one platform to build beautiful websites with ease, even if you have zero knowledge of coding and Squarespace is now my preferred way of building simple websites quickly and as a web, designer I've even begun transferring some of my existing sites over to their platform, and it's not just because of their wide selection of templates and themes.

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So, instead of going from like 99% to 100% via trickle charging, this new feature will keep your phone around 80% until it thinks you're about to use your phone again like when you're about to wake up, and then it's going to charge it the rest of the way up. So it's pretty useful, and it definitely does make your battery last longer. Now. Another tip I can give. You are to keep your iPhone away from heat as much as possible.

So I see people all the time going to the beach with their iPhones, and they'll kind of just leave them in the Sun they'll leave them like on their towel or something like that still in the Sun, and it makes me cringe so hard because heat is the number one enemy of lithium-ion batteries. So you want to keep it away from heat as much as possible and the same goes for cold weather, but not quite as much since the lithium-ion batteries do heat themselves up, but still Apple recommends using your phone and temperatures from 30 to 95 degrees, Fahrenheit and nothing over or below now. Another tip is that if your iPhone gets really hot, when it's charging, you may want to remove the case that you have on it, and the reason for this is that the case may be acting as a barrier and basically just slowed down the whole heat dissipation from your iPhone to your iPhone and that lithium-ion battery need room to breathe and certain cases can kind of restrict that passageway for air, especially really tight. Cases like I would imagine, maybe something like the Letterbox cases or something like that. I wouldn't really think that most cases trap heat like that as much these days anymore.

But it's definitely something to consider if you do notice your phone getting hot while it's charging another tip is to stay away from knockoff Chinese charger. So you get what you pay for, and many studies have proven that cheap iPhone chargers are really, really bad for your iPhone. Not only are they cheaply made and will rip and tear much quicker than the cable from Apple wood, but they can also cause damage to your device and impact the overall battery capacity. Now some of these chargers have been proven to power surge, iPhones and iPads, which can lead to Hardware damage and also impacting the capacity of the battery itself. So just avoid cheap cables, if at all possible, and if you lost your original cable, and you don't want to buy another, an official one from Apple because they are pretty expensive, I would buy from someone more trusted like an anchor or a Welkin, or something like that before I bought something just because it's high rated and cheap on Amazon.

So just keep that in mind when it comes to chargers and the final tip is to not use a wireless charger. All the time only use a wireless charger when you're in need of a quick and convenient charge, but definitely do not replace regular charging with wireless charging. Now Apple did include a fast charger with the new iPhone 11 pros this year and I normally say to always avoid using the fast charger as well. But I don't have enough data to say whether it's bad to use Apple's fast charger every single day or not, but anyways. The reason you don't want to use a wireless charger or a fast charger.

All the time is because the process when it comes to charging involves a higher voltage to be sent to the iPhones battery, which results in a rapid rise in temperature, and that's why I normally use just a normal charger and not the fast charger most of the time you know throughout the day, especially at night, unless of course, I need to charge up quickly, but most of the time I would avoid using a wireless charger or a fast charger. Every single time you charge your phone, you can use them, I'm, not saying it's bad, but don't use them every single time, especially wireless chargers, and one other thing I wanted to mention as well, is that it is worth it to change the battery every three years, if you're planning on keeping your phone for a long time- and this especially goes with pretty much the older, the iPhone gets. You know the more frequently you're going to have to replace the battery but snow. Even if you have like a 11pro, you know three years from now, you may want to just get a new battery in it. If you plan on keeping this phone long-term, pretty much, you can just look at the battery capacity and once it gets down to like 80%, that's probably what you should consider getting a new battery, maybe 85%, but most of the time, if you follow all these tips.

I mentioned in this video- and you know combined that with my battery saving tips, video and iOS 13, which I have linked up on the cards. You will probably last many years without having to get a new battery, just remember to charge your phone anytime. You can and just follow every other tip I mentioned in this video, and you should be good to go, and you should notice your battery health staying at 100% or at least in the 90 percents for at least a year or two so yeah, that's pretty much it for this video guys, I hope you did enjoy it. If you did learn something new, and you enjoyed this, video I would appreciate it if you'd give it a thumbs up and, of course subscribe. So you don't miss more videos.

Just like this one I'm sure I will have an updated guide for this once iOS 14 does come out so be sure to stay tuned to that, but anyways guys thanks again for watching, and I'll see you soon.

Source : Brandon Butch