Instead, “maintaining the battery charge between 20 per cent and 80 per cent is more beneficial for battery cycle life”.
Maintaining the battery charge between 20 per cent and 80 per cent is more beneficial for battery cycle life.
Your phone’s battery life certainly does get worse as the years go on, “due to internal electrochemical wear and tear”, Unnikrishnan says.
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But although this “more is better” approach might alleviate our short term worries about our devices giving up while we’re out and about, it’s not the best for the battery in the long term.