I limit my laptop battery charge to 80% with a third party software tool. Laptops can generally bypass the battery and directly power themselves from the wall.
Does this new 80% battery limit setting imply that the new iPhones are able to do the same? Implication would be less battery wear while docked on a desk/in a car or due to long “AAA” gaming sessions, since it will draw power direct from the wall rather than using the battery as a middleman.
Alternatively, this just means it will keep draining/charging to keep it at a steady 80%, with the battery still fully involved with providing power to the phone.
Pixel phones have been doing this for some time. I don’t think it has a relationship to battery passthrough. The phone will just switch to a slower charging speed at some point.
https://9to5google.com/2021/07/14/pixel-80-percent-battery-health-charging/
I’m glad Apple is finally allowing this to be done though it’s silly they are seemingly keeping this for new phones.
What’s the 3rd party tool for the laptop battery? Is it for macOS?
I’ve been using AlDente for awhile:
Good feature set, some cool visualizations of charging activity (as cool as watts going into a battery can be…). Been very happy with it so far, keep my laptop at 80% pretty much all the time (mostly docked).
Ahh dang, it’s only for Macs. I never knew this was an option, it’s something I’d love to use on my PC, and phone too - currently I use AccuBattery to monitor battery health and alert me when it reaches 90% charge so I can unplug it.
Using this method, I’ve kept my phone battery at around 80%+ original capacity even after 3 years of rather heavy use. I’m very pleased.
Awesome thanks. It’s a wonder why this isn’t more popular though… I’ll check it out today.
if it helps i use tlp on linux
I really want all devices to have this option. I have it on my phone, and it’s really nice- I just wish my asus laptop, steam deck, and other devices could do it.