#iphone battery

Some iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro users are experiencing battery degradation concerns akin to the “batterygate” debacle. Within a year of usage, these individuals are witnessing a faster-than-expected decline in battery capacity. A prime example is Sam Kohl, who recently tweeted that his iPhone 14 Pro’s battery capacity had already dropped to 90 percent, a much swifter decline compared to his…

The throttling only happens when the processor is demanding more power than the battery can provide. This is an alternative to the random shutdowns that happened to those of us with the “battery refund” 6s’s in 2015.

It is NOT to prolong battery life. It’s to prevent random shut-offs.

So, with this design, your phone will only be slow when it gets “overwhelmed”.

If it is slow all the time, it has a legit problem. Good news is, it can almost always be quickly fixed for free at home.

Here are some ways:

Turn off background app refresh

Quit apps you aren’t actively using anyway (though don’t quit the clock if you’re using an alarm, should still work but it’s a little dodgy sometimes)

Check your storage. If you’ve got less than a gigabyte free, the processor is going to have more trouble

Check how much space each app is taking up. Apps with more caches are more likely to crash and/or shut down.

If all else fails, your phone may actually be wearing out. There are apps to check your processor speed. If the battery is normal and the processor is not, sadly the motherboard is genuinely worn out. But it’s much more likely that your battery is so worn down that even simple tasks demand more power than it can produce. A battery replacement may be in order.

...let me introduce you to Coconut Battery.

Coconut Battery is software that analyzes your battery to see how well it’s running. It does anything on your computer, including your iPhones.

For example, here’s my laptop:

As you can see, my laptop is fully charged. Over time, the battery has declined, so while it’s fully charged, “fully charged” means that it’s only holding 81.2% of what a new battery would. Basically, “100%” means “81.2% of a new battery.” But that’s not that bad; it’s actually still pretty good. I wouldn’t need to start worrying until it drops into the 60-70% range.

Compare with my iPhone:

My iPhone was in the middle of charging when I took this screenshot, but even a “full” charge is only 34% of what a new battery would be able to take. Of course my phone can’t hold a charge for shit: every second I use it counts down from 34%, not 100%. 

“Once its cycle count has reached 500 complete charge cycles, your iPhone’s battery is considered consumed as its ability to provide power reduces,” Christian Zibreg reports for iDownload Blog. “As a result, you may need to charge the phone more and more frequently and it might exhibit unexpected shutdowns.”

“All rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles,” Zibreg…