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I had an I Phone 5 since about 2014. It was starting to act up, so Mrs. Ironworker said to get a new one. So I got an I Phone SE. It was the least expensive and does way more stuff then I will ever use. I usually plug the phone in over night to charge it. I do not use the phone very much, so I may only charge it once or twice a week. The phone salesman said it was a bad idea to leave the phone charging over night, it might mess up the battery. So I hope someone here can help me out. How low should I let the battery go before charging? Does it hurt to charge it when it is at about 50 or 60% charged? Does it hurt to charge it over night or plug it in and leave it charging for several days? I have had conflicting answers to these question and I think Sig Forum is about the best place to get a straight answer. Thanks for any help. | ||
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Do you have the latest update of iOS? I have an iPhone 12 Pro; it's a different phone, but I got a message when I started using it that the phone would not allow over-charging, so you didn't need to worry about that any more. This system was a new feature in iOS 13, presumably carried over to the current iOS 14. Here's an explanation:
And here's the link with the complete explanation: Link In sort, your iPhone is smarter than you are, and definitely smarter than the phone salesman.  _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
Nailed it.  ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
I've had several Iphones for 10+ years and always leave them charging overnight. The salesman is full of it. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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| Conservative in Nor Cal constantly swimming up stream  |
I listen to Audio books at night when I go to bed. I set the sleep timer and leave it plugged in to my IHome system every night. I've done this with all my iPhones and never had a battery problem. ----------------------------------- Get your guns b4 the Dems take them away Sig P-229 Sig P-220 Combat | |||
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No big challenge there. Well, one of our members used to do that (sell phones), but he was probably an exception to the general population of phone salesmen. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
I've read that over charging can be an issue, as well as running the phone to "empty". As I recall from the article, it's best to charge at the same time each day, when the battery shows from 40 to 80%, and then take it off once it s fully charged. That said my wife and I got iPhone 11's at the same time and she charges overnight no matter what the charge level is and I do the aforementioned procedure. Her phone shows no sign of battery degradation in use or when checked with the battery checker app. So if your procedure works, there is no need to alter it at this point. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
I've had iPhones since the 3G and have charged my phones overnight, every night since then. I've never had an issue with battery life. Of course, the longest I've gone before buying a new iPhone was 3 years, so I don't know what extended usage would actually do to battery longevity. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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All night, every night. Regardless of the remaining charge... When my pants come off at night I drop the phone on the charger on the bedside table and it stays there until I put my pants back on the next day. Wife and I have both been doing that for about ten years with never any battery issues at all. Collecting dust. | |||
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It is interesting to note that when one goes to use Apple's trade in program, one of the questions about the device you are trading in asks if there is any swelling (usually caused by batteries swelling). My 2015 MBP suffered battery swelling because I kept it plugged in all the time (the swelling started in the 2nd year after purchase. The battery was replaced under Apple Care, and the new battery is swelling though I've been very careful about not leaving it plugged in. It seems to me that Apple has a more general battery problem. I believe this is partly due to the move towards "thin" in their designs, leaving very little room for the battery to dissipate heat. This is most likely why they introduced the "optimized battery charging" feature. When in doubt, mumble | |||
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| I made it so far, now I'll go for more  |
I charge mine while I am sitting around watching tv, or whatever and unplug it when I go to bed. Works for me. Bob I am no expert, but think I am sometimes. | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
I've let phones of mine charge overnight a few times and then felt the phone and charger in the morning to see if they were warm. In all cases they were room temperature so any charging going on was trickle charge which I seriously doubt would harm anything. | |||
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| אַרְיֵה |
Between my wife and me, we have had three swollen batteries, one on an iPhone 6 Plus and two on Apple watches. These all occurred after the devices were out of warranty. A short "discussion" via chat with an Apple support person on the Apple website, and they agreed to replace batteries on their nickel, even out of warranty, as the swelling batteries were a known problem. Took the phone into the local Apple store (this was way before The Virus), they did not replace the battery, they just gave my wife a shiny new phone, at no cost, other than about 45 minutes hanging around the store. The two watches, they sent prepaid shipping boxes to send the watches back to an Apple Service Center, and two days later, we received replacement watches. One of the replacements we received was a third generation watch to replace the first generation that I sent to them. Again, all of this was with no cost to us. To date, Apple support has treated us very well. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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You can’t “overcharge” an iPhone. Plug it in every night or when it needs charged and forget it. ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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| אַרְיֵה |
Starting with the iPhone 8, iPhones can use magnetic chargers. Really convenient! I have these. iPhone sits on the round one overnight. The stand type is on my desk at work. Phone sits at a convenient viewing angle, so I notice reminders and incoming texts or emails popping up on the lock screen, while the phone stays charged.  הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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The phone sales droid knows not of which he or she speaks. Not only will an iPhone not overcharge itself, but, if you charge it on any kind of a regular basis, it will learn your charging habits and adjust the charging rate so it just finishes charging a bit before you can be expected to take it off the charger. It does this latter thing because slower charge rates mean less heat. Less heat means extended battery lifetime. As for charging it only once- or twice-a-week: That may be a Bad Idea, depending upon how low you're letting it get. Ideally you want to charge the phone when it gets no lower than about 70-80% of full charge. Less charge time = less heat. I look at my iPhone and iPad each evening, before hitting the sack. If they're at or below 80% they go on the charger overnight. I take them off the charger as soon as I get up--not due to fear of over-charging, but so they learn by what time is the earliest I'll want them ready. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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From what I have seen (us + having two sons using iphones and other gadgets) the biggest damage you can do to ANY battery is to keep running it until it is flat, dead, kaput. One son had a habit of running iphones until the battery completely died. In his case it required replacement of two of his phone batteries over the years and poor performance after a pattern of this. I have had similar experiences with basically any type of modern battery- most drop charge by design 1% or so a week(s)/thereabouts. ("Balanced" or smart batteries can be even more sensitive). Also do NOT let them sit for months and go flat. And also don't leave them plugged in sitting in chargers continuously. Bad things can happen... | |||
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| I Deal In Lead |
Just informationally, they're not magnetic chargers, they're inductive chargers. I've got two of the vertical ones you have in the picture and that's what I have Mrs. Flash use when she charges her phone. They work on exactly the same principle as a transformer because that's what you have when you're using one. There's a coil in your phone and another in the charger and the charge couples between the two. Different manufacturers phones charge at different rates and the iPhone charges at 7.5 watts (1-1/2 amps). | |||
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With the current iPhone 12, charging is typically 1 hr and 20 mins to full charge-that's what I'm getting using a wall plug with their included cable. With older iPhones, it really varies. My iPhone 6s took longer, older phone and battery was only charging 85-90% now | |||
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I plug my personal phone in when I go to sleep and unplug it when I wake. It usually doesn't "need" it, it's just routine. It's an iPhone 4 that I haven't updated in many years, I suppose that's why it still works. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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