Yep. I work at home. I have a 14 Pro Max. I use on average 20% of my iPhone's battery per day. I could easily get 5 days if I wanted.
I'm going to guess the iron makes them heavier, but I don't know. I'd take the tradeoff.
The lack of longevity is solely due to iOS updates though, not battery technology.
If I happened to buy 2 100% identical iPhones (for sake of argument) and use them for 5 years identically, but one I always updated the iOS software and the other I did not - I would expect less run time on the phone that has the latest software. But even after 5 years of perfect handling, the battery should be noticeably degraded. We pay a big price for thin batteries. The difference between the two phones, I might put at a 10-15% difference (educated guess). I imagine your prediction would be a higher %?
Assuming a moderate user at 1 full cycle every 2 days, so around 900 cycles, and allowing myself to include two battery care points:
Agreed, but in my experience, just by charging slow and avoiding heat you can definitely surpass that number. I was at 500 cycles with 90% health on my other iPhone 6s that was on iOS 9, and it was 3 years old by then. A heavy user will have far better health-to-cycles ratio with that approach, simply because the time degradation is not a factor.
I agree that these batteries would be great, but with the current iOS standards the device will be obsolete before those batteries degrade.
Good point. Nuts how much some updates destroy battery. I stopped updating iOS 3 years ago and my battery deterioration stopped. iOS 11 was the worst, it destroyed my iPhone 5s and iPod 6 batteries immediately. That's when a bunch of states sued Apple, I guess it POed some legislators.
I like your bottom point, but the first is simply not true. Apple was sued repeatedly by multiple states for their BS update battery destroying behavior. Apple quietly settled, rather than let it go to court, implying the truth, which would have been forced out in court, was highly embarrassing to Apple.
The battery lawsuit that Apple had was in response to the 6, 6+, 6s, 6s+ phones that had a batch of bad batteries that were causing phones to shut off before the battery charge went down to 0%. Apple then quietly put out an OS update to significantly reduce the CPU voltage to prevent the shutoff due to the bad batteries that couldn't keep the phone powered with the voltage it was asking - instead of replacing the batteries - at least initially.
People blame batteries because they’ve never tried this. They’ve never used a 5-year-old iPhone with the original battery on the original iOS version. Should they try it, especially whilst charging slow and avoiding heat, then they’d see that battery life just won’t drop, even if capacity does drop.
Go read the actual suits. I did. What the "news" reported the suits said, and what they actually said, were not the same. The complaints alleged batteries suddenly swelling, phones becoming uncomfortable to touch due to sudden massive heating, and battery swelling so severe that the displays were popping off of phones.
Yes, but how is that relevant here? Dangerous advice like this ("never update") is the exact reason why so many people to this day are still using completely obsolete stuff like Windows XP and then wonder why targeting them with malware is as easy as taking candy from a child...
It is relevant. Use a phone as a main device throughout 5 years, and you’ll see the experience degrade consistently. You will care less now because your main phone will always be the latest.
Heck no. I can’t go a week without sleeping, so there’s no sense going that long without charging.
I definitely can't. If I do I'll break my phone. I am not a small person (hence my name). lol.
