Should I be overly concerned about my iPhone's battery health? Not necessarily.

In the early days when Nokia was popular or when smartphones were just emerging, it seemed that it was a standard feature of all manufacturers to support opening the back cover and replacing the battery. However, after entering the iPhone era, non-removable back covers became the mainstream. It is precisely because the non-removable back cover hinders our freedom to replace the battery on our own that there seems to be no end to the discussion about whether the batteries of electronic products are very durable, or how to make the batteries of mobile phones or mobile devices more durable, or other related topics. It seems that a large number of people hope to optimize the health of their mobile phones or other devices' batteries through some methods.

As far as I can remember, there has been an APP called "Battery Manager" since the iPod touch. From the name, the biggest function of this APP is to help you extend the battery life of your device or maintain the battery health of your device. When I used to use iPod touch, I would open this APP every time I charged it, but two years later, I had to change to a new touch because of the decline in battery performance. So this so-called APP that can help you optimize charging, in my opinion, is not very useful. Let's call this kind of APP a "psychological comfort type" APP, but in fact, this kind of useless APP can still be searched in the application market until today.

Take Samsung App Store as an example (please ignore the search ads)

In recent years, many people have paid more attention to the health of their iPhone or electronic device batteries. They especially like to search the Internet for ways to prevent their mobile phone battery health from decreasing too quickly and keep the battery capacity at 100% as much as possible. In fact, paying attention to the health of electronic product batteries is not limited to mobile phones or mobile devices, but also electric vehicles. I have a good example. A friend of mine bought a Tesla Model 3 Performance last month. He told me that he could go to bed on time before 23:00 every day before picking up the car. However, after picking up the car, he had to wait for his high-performance electric car to be fully charged and then go downstairs to unplug the charging gun before he could sleep peacefully. His behavior was really confusing. Later, I asked him why he did this. He said that it was mainly because the battery should only be charged to 80%. If the electric car is charged for a long time, keeping the power battery at 100% will damage the power battery. This is not buying a car, it is simply buying a ____ (fill in the blank). If you pay too much attention to the health of the battery rather than the product itself during the use of the product, then I think this product has lost its original meaning.

Set Tesla charging limit to 80%

Those who are very familiar with iPhone phones must know that Apple has added a function to check the battery health of iPhone in iPhone 6 and later models, iOS 11.3 and later versions. Is the biggest use of this function to check the maximum capacity of your iPhone battery?

All rechargeable batteries are consumables. As the battery chemical age increases, the performance of the battery will slowly decline over time no matter what method you use. So in my opinion, there is no need to pay too much attention to the maximum health of your mobile phone battery, nor to look online for some so-called methods that can slow down the decline of the maximum battery capacity. Battery loss is an inevitable thing. If it doesn't work, just change a new phone. If you can't bear it, spend some money to buy a new battery at the after-sales service.

Replacing a battery is expensive

If you say: I will feel bad if I don't do something about my battery, then I have prepared some precautions and methods for you. These methods and precautions are all from Apple's official website, which will be helpful for the health of your iPhone battery.

1. Keep your iPhone at a suitable temperature. The best operating temperature for iPhone is between 0°C and 35°C. Storage temperature: -20°C to 45°C (ambient temperature -4°F to 113°F).

2. Remove certain protective cases when charging. When you charge your device in certain styles of protective cases, it may generate excessive heat, which may affect the battery capacity.

3. When storing for a long time, please keep the battery at half capacity. Do not fully charge or fully discharge the device when storing it. The device should be charged at about 50%.

4. Update to the latest software. Always make sure your device is running the latest version of iOS.

The above methods can help you protect the battery health of your device to a certain extent. However, it should be noted that there are also some wrong practices that will greatly damage the health of your battery, such as keeping the battery fully charged for a long time. Of course, it is important to remember that batteries will always be consumables. With today's existing technology, it is normal for battery health to be depleted, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it. Just pay attention to keeping the battery at 50% when storing the device for a long time and not leaving the battery fully charged for a long time. By the way, let me add one more sentence. If the health of your mobile phone battery is really not ideal and you want to solve it at a low cost, then I suggest you just buy a power bank.