Hi all,
To make a long story short, I live abroad and I’m looking at leaving my Gen 1 iPhone SE and Bose QC35ii headphones at my parents house when I go back home. While I don’t have my much use for these products (I have a 12 mini as my main phone and will buy a SE Gen 2 or XR as a backup), they do have sentimental value. I heard that it’s preferable to leave the phone and any lithium ion battery charged electronic at 50% and top them off every 3-6 months. My parents aren’t that good with technology to keep them stored according to those parameters and I don’t know if they’d be able to top off batteries every couple of months. I read that if you leave any lithium ion battery at 0% for a prolonged period of time, the battery will fail and won’t charge. Is the next best alternative to keep the headphones and iPhone SE plugged in all the time like one would do with a laptop? I have 100% battery health on the Gen 1 SE, and no noticeable degradation in battery health on my QC35ii’s which is why I want to preserve those numbers. I would imagine if I use the old slow charging Apple 5 watt charger and put it on airplane mode with wifi and Bluetooth disabled, it’ll reduce the heat to some degree, and any charging would be trickle charging whenever it drops past 100%. Thanks in advance for the advice guys.
To make a long story short, I live abroad and I’m looking at leaving my Gen 1 iPhone SE and Bose QC35ii headphones at my parents house when I go back home. While I don’t have my much use for these products (I have a 12 mini as my main phone and will buy a SE Gen 2 or XR as a backup), they do have sentimental value. I heard that it’s preferable to leave the phone and any lithium ion battery charged electronic at 50% and top them off every 3-6 months. My parents aren’t that good with technology to keep them stored according to those parameters and I don’t know if they’d be able to top off batteries every couple of months. I read that if you leave any lithium ion battery at 0% for a prolonged period of time, the battery will fail and won’t charge. Is the next best alternative to keep the headphones and iPhone SE plugged in all the time like one would do with a laptop? I have 100% battery health on the Gen 1 SE, and no noticeable degradation in battery health on my QC35ii’s which is why I want to preserve those numbers. I would imagine if I use the old slow charging Apple 5 watt charger and put it on airplane mode with wifi and Bluetooth disabled, it’ll reduce the heat to some degree, and any charging would be trickle charging whenever it drops past 100%. Thanks in advance for the advice guys.
