Mobile device batteries are crucial components that determine the duration and efficiency of daily use, so taking care of your iPhone's battery is crucial if you want your device to have a longer life.
Although over time, lithium-ion batteries degrade and their ability to hold a charge decreases, there are a series of tips and actions you can take to mitigate this wear and tear, and today, from iPhoneA2, we will tell you about them so that you can put them into practice.
How to take care of our iPhone battery?
After making the degradation process clear, although it is inevitable, we can take a series of measures that will serve to mitigate it and extend the life of our phone's battery:
Keep cell phone temperatures under control
Extreme temperatures can seriously damage your iPhone's battery, reducing its capacity.
If we focus on Apple's technical sheets, the manufacturer recommends keeping the iPhone at temperatures between 0°C and 35°C on average. That is to say, we can live in a warm area and nothing happens to our iPhone, but if we avoid overheating it is even better on a regular basis.
The moment you notice that your device is getting very hot, Try to avoid exposing it to direct sunlight or leaving it in hot places such as inside a car, or near stoves, because this overexposure to heat will degrade the battery even faster.
Update the software to avoid bugs and have corrections
We have seen it with the iPhone 15 and its tendency to overheat, which ended up being solved with a software update. And as we have said a thousand times, and probably continue to say, updating software is always important.
To update your iPhone, go to Settings > General > Software Update and follow the guided process.
Use high quality chargers and not bad imitations
If you were tempted to buy that 2 euro charger from Aliexpress... bad idea friend, since the use of non-certified chargers and cables can damage the battery of your iPhone, since low quality chargers can provide an unstable charge, affecting negatively the health of the battery.
It is important to use official Apple accessories or those that are certified by Apple (with the "Made for iPhone" logo), and that are priced according to the quality they promise, because there are many counterfeits on the web.
To see what fake chargers look like, we advise you to take a look at this video courtesy of WillTech:
Use settings that can save battery.
There are some settings that can help reduce battery consumption, apart from software updates.
Brightness of the screen
To take care of your iPhone battery a little more, you can deactivate the brightness at maximum or activate automatic brightness (Settings > Display & brightness > Auto brightness).
Dark mode
Turning on dark mode can help save battery life, especially on iPhones with OLED screens, as it To turn black on OLED screens, the pixels are turned off and no battery is consumed in the process. This is activated in Settings > Display and brightness > Dark mode.
Disable background update
With this you will limit the automatic updating of apps that you have installed, so that they can only be updated if you click update in the App Store. To set this, you can enter Settings > General > Background refresh.
Activate low power mode
Low Power Mode is a great way to Extend battery life when charge level is low, which does is reduce or temporarily deactivate activities that consume a lot of energy. This is activated in Settings > Battery > Low Power Mode.
Avoid completely discharging the battery, and NEVER keep it discharged for long periods of time.
Lithium-ion batteries have a longer cycle life when held between 20% and 80% charged. In fact, if you've noticed, when you buy an iPhone it is rarely charged to 100% but rather has a charge percentage that fluctuates around this amount.
This is not something random, but there is what is called the “storage load” in the batteries, where the phone is left charged between 50 and 80% to make the mobile last longer charged in the box without remaining at 0, and Apple leaves it like this to take care of the battery of your iPhone before that you buy it.
Hand in hand with this, If you are going to store the phone for a long time, it is not good to do it without charging since the mobile phone, when it has been discharged for a long time, causes the nominal voltage of your battery to be below 3.3V (which would be 0% in a lithium ion cell battery). If a device is below that value for a long time, it may even lose the ability to charge fully.
Therefore, avoid completely discharging the battery and, if possible, Charge your iPhone before the battery level drops below 20%.
Periodically check the health of your battery
The iPhone has a built-in feature that allows users check battery health, which you can review at Settings > Battery > Battery Health.
If the maximum capacity has decreased significantly and performance is affected, it may be time to consider replacing the battery because a damaged battery can be a severe future performance problem, as we saw in this other article on MacBook batteries, and that applies to iPhones in the same way.
Of course, always try to purchase high quality batteries and always preferably the Apple officials since it has advanced security mechanisms that will ensure that you do not have any problems with your mobile.
Be wary of batteries that promise to double or even triple the charge in the same storage space as the original, because if this were possible... do you think Apple wouldn't have already done it from scratch? And even less so when the price does not match and seems too cheap compared to the official spare part.