{"id":1322,"date":"2024-10-04T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2025-04-22T20:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:19:02","slug":"does-limiting-iphone-charging-to-80-extend-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/does-limiting-iphone-charging-to-80-extend-battery-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Does limiting iPhone charging to 80% extend battery life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Does-limiting-iPhone-charging-to-80-extend-battery-life.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Both the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/iphone-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iPhone 16<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/iphone-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iPhone 15<\/a> before it offer the option to <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/09\/20\/iphone-15-battery-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">limit charging to 80%<\/a> rather than 100%. The thinking is that many people don\u2019t need the full battery capacity of the device in a typical day, and it reduces wear on the battery, extending its life.<\/p>\n<p>But is the theory backed up by real-world results? A sister site of <em>Macworld<\/em> decided to collect some data and carry out a statistical analysis to find out \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"iphone,iphone-15,iphone-16\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"971984\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/10\/04\/does-limiting-iphone-charging-to-80-extend-battery-life\/#more-971984\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 15 before it offer the option to limit charging to 80% rather than 100%. The thinking is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}