How To Squeeze The Longest Life From Your IPhone Battery

But how do you take care of that new battery to stop it going bad, The truth is, the lithium ion batteries in phones and notebook computers have a finite life. But you can prolong that life with a few easy tricks. Before you do anything else, you should check the health of your iPhone’s battery. If you have a Mac, the easy way to do this to download the coconutBattery app and run it. CoconutBattery shows you how much capacity remains in your iPhone (or iPad) battery. It also tells you the specified capacity when new, as well as the number of battery cycles that it has endured. Battery cycles are one one of the key parts of battery life, as we’ll see in a second. A li-ion battery only has so many charge cycles in it. That means that every time you drain your battery and charge it, its capacity is reduced a little. Eventually, it won’t be able to hold a useful charge, although it’s likely you’ll have replaced your phone before it gets to that stage. Reduced capacity doesn’t just mean that you can’t use the phone for as long between charges.

It also affects the performance of the iPhone. When you launch an app, or scroll a page, play game, or edit a photo, the iPhone’s power demands will spike. That’s normal — it doesn’t take as much juice to show a page of text as it does to shove a bunch of spaceships around the screen. If your battery isn’t up to snuff, though, it cannot supply enough juice to satisfy these power spikes. That’s why Apple has started throttling iPhone performance to even out these spikes — the alternative was to shut the iPhone down completely, which is obviously worse. So, it really pays to look after your battery. The best way to avoid using up those charge cycles is to charge the iPhone less often. And the best way to achieve that is to be frugal with battery use. You can go all out and disable many of the iPhone’s features, but then you may as well just use an older, slower iPhone anyway.