Later on, during the battery fiasco that spawned the Battery Health reader in iOS, Apple refunded us $50 without us having to do anything.īatteries are a chemistry. ![]() In so doing, they destroyed my wife's 6s+ and we got a new 6s+. They shrugged their shoulders and had to be forced to let me pay them for a new battery out of pocket. We showed them how it shut off below 70% with any load. Of course, when we took it into Apple, they showed "green" and healthy. coconutBattery showed her battery capacity randomly fluctuating between 40%, 60%, and 90%. Less than 6 months into ownership, her phone would randomly shut off and last easily half as long as my identical phone. My wife's 6s+ was the only anomaly in our lineup of phones from the 6+ to the Xs MAX. Most of my other phones strayed a percentage or two (6+ and 8+) - this includes iPads. The worst was my 6+ that went from 108% from design capacity to 98% after almost 2 years. ![]() I'm a light user and my wife is a heavy user of her phone.Īfter 2 years and 230 - 300 cycles my phones have had little to no battery degradation in terms of overall capacity. ![]() My wife gets the same phone I do so I have 2 phones to "observe" and compare against with very different usage. I usually keep my phones for 1.5-2 years. I take weekly readings and focus on the battery capacity vs design capacity. I have watched all of my devices with coconutBattery since the 6+, to the 6s+, to the 8+, and now Xs MAX. As a self prescribed battery hobbyist, I must admit I'm not entirely sure what is going on.
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