If you’re using an iPhone that is updated to iOS 13 and later versions, you can enable or disable a feature in the settings that optimizes the battery and prevents its aging. Optimised Battery Charging allows iPhone to reduce full charging time and learn daily charging habits. It waits for the user not to use it again to exceed the 80% charge.
The chemical age of a battery is affected by several factors, including the temperatures it has been subjected to over time and charging habits. With aging, it decreases the ability of lithium-ion batteries to hold charge, and they also decrease battery life and performance.
The Optimised Battery Charging option is designed by Apple to cure battery wear and improve battery life in certain situations, reducing the time your iPhone spends fully charged. When it is enabled, iPhone uses machine learning to understand your charging habits. The purpose is to keep the iPhone fully charged when disconnected.
Manage Optimised Battery Charging to not ruin the iPhone battery
You should know that this feature has been thought and designed to bear fruit, in particular, in places where you spend a lot of time, for example at home. When you travel or go to work or university, obviously your iPhone’s usage and charging habits change.
Many people, in certain situations, prefer to charge the phone faster out of necessity. Therefore, in these cases, we advise you to disable iPhone Optimised Battery Charging, in order not to ruin the battery. What you need to do is simple:
- go to Settings;
- click on Battery;
- then tap on Battery Health;
- Finally bring the Optimised Battery Charging to OFF.
Usually, when you configure your iPhone or after upgrading to the iOS 13 system and later versions, Optimised Battery Charging is ON by default. But, if you have disabled it for some reason, and instead, you think that enabling the option in question is useful in your case, follow the next steps.
To activate it:
- tap on the Settings icon;
- click on Battery;
- on the next screen, tap on Battery Health;
- Then bring the switch next to Optimized Battery Charging to ON.
Remember that you can view the monitoring of the charge, first reaching the Settings section and then the Battery section of your iPhone, at the bottom of the screen.