{"id":134847,"date":"2023-09-19T22:41:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/09\/19\/iphone-15-has-new-battery-health-controls-to-prevent-charging-past-80?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2023-09-19T22:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:41:56","slug":"iphone-15-has-new-battery-health-controls-to-prevent-charging-past-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/19\/iphone-15-has-new-battery-health-controls-to-prevent-charging-past-80\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 15 has new battery health controls to prevent charging past 80%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-hero\" aria-labelledby=\"hero-cap\" role=\"figure\">\n<p id=\"hero-cap\" class=\"hero-caption\" title=\"iPhone 14 Pro Max at 100%\">iPhone 14 Pro Max at 100%<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/iphone-15-has-new-battery-health-controls-to-prevent-charging-past-80.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/iphone-15-has-new-battery-health-controls-to-prevent-charging-past-80.jpg\" alt> <\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/iphone-15\" title=\"iPhone 15\" data-kpt=\"1\">iPhone 15<\/a> users looking to prolong their battery health a little further have a new option \u2014 an 80% charging hard limit.\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the usual Optimized Battery Charging setting that stops the iPhone from charging once it hits 80%, then resumes charging to 100% to finish just before the user wakes up. Instead, the iPhone will never charge past 80%.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Charging a battery is relatively efficient and uniform from 0% to 80%, but that last 20% generally takes more energy and produces more heat. This leads some users to consciously try to float their battery between 40% and 80% at all times to prolong battery health.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Now, users no longer need to monitor charging and can have it stop at 80% automatically. However, <em>AppleInsider<\/em> continues to recommend users stick with Optimized Battery Charging and avoid this new setting.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>There is very little to gain from stopping an iPhone from charging past 80%. Instead, the user will suffer from not having access to the full potential of the battery capacity while only salvaging a few more weeks of battery health.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone 14 Pro Max at 100% iPhone 15 users looking to prolong their battery health a little further have a new option \u2014 an 80% charging hard limit. This isn&#8217;t the usual Optimized Battery Charging setting that stops the iPhone from charging once it hits 80%, then resumes charging to 100% to finish just before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}