hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and many people message me almost daily
about concern for battery health on their iPhones so I wanted to show you
how you can see real true battery health and why you should pretty much ignore
the battery health here you'll see my XS Max is at 100% and that's accurate as
far as what I've been able to tell and I'll show you that in a moment but on
devices like the iPads or a 5s you can't see the actual battery health and what
we really should be looking at is better battery cycle count because my se here
shows 88% but it can't provide enough power to keep the phone running at peak
performance so I've talked about this in another video it rebooted on me a couple
times now actually and that would really indicate that you need to replace the
battery even though it says 88% the cycle count is what we really care about
now a battery cycle is bringing your phone from 100% down to zero and then
back up to a 100% again now that can be done incrementally it doesn't mean that
each time you charge it is a cycle so if one day you drain it to 50% and then you
bring it back up to 100% and then the next day you do the same thing that's
one cycle any amount that adds up over time to 100% so one day you could use it
25% the next day 75% that would equal one cycle and this is according to Apple
I'll link it in the description so you can check it out for yourself but it's
not every time you plug it in it's incrementally up to 100% so let me show
you an application that I've actually been using that's free you can use it on
Mac or Windows and this will show you the cycle count in the true battery
health based on what's inside the devices and you can see it on iPads and
iPhones and any iOS device or MacBook as well now Apple says that 80% of your
battery should be remaining after 500 cycles so that's about two years for
most people and then an iPad is one thousand cycles when it brings it down
to 80% that's due mostly to the size of the batteries and the voltages and
things like that and just for reference iPods are 400 cycles to 80% and MacBooks
or 1,000 and the Apple watch is 1,000 so let's go ahead and take a look at the
application see how many cycles each of these
because even though this one is 88% you could have a lot of cycles on it which
means it probably needs to be replaced so let's take a look at that and I'll
show you these applications so I've got my lightning cable here and my 30-pin
adapter here from my iPad 2 so let's go ahead and first plug in the iPhone and
we'll take a look at the actual battery health so I've plugged that in we'll
wait for it to connect and you'll see I have this application here called
coconut battery now there's a free and a paid version this is the free version so
you'll get all of the same features and you'll see right now I'm on my Mac Mini
2018 it gives some information but we really care about the iOS device so
we'll click on this so on the 10s max you can see here we've just got the
basic information but what we really care about is down here we've got design
capacity 3000 174 milliamp hours here's the capacity cycle count is 111 so we
are at 100% this is the number we care about and also the cycle count and like
I said before Apple says 80% of the battery should be remaining so 80% here
after 500 cycles so that's kind of the point where you might want to replace
the battery so we're good here now let me plug in another device the one that
rebooted the other day was my iPhone se so I'll plug that one in and the iPhone
se is plugged in now and we'll wait for this to refresh there we go
you'll see this one has cycled 518 times and we're at 80 point nine percent so
that's holding true 500 times 80 percent and this one has told me that I need to
replace it now even though it said 88 percent on the display the actual amount
is 80 point nine percent so the actual battery health that's displayed on the
iPhone itself I wouldn't go by I'd go by this here
based off the cycle count now let me show you one that does not have a cycle
count early battery Health built in the iPhone 5s and you'll see this one is at
85 point nine percent after seven hundred and twelve cycles however I know
from using this device that it doesn't seem to hold a battery very long and it
drops off very fast so it definitely needs to be replaced and we're at 712
cycles so for ten to twenty dollars I'll replace the
battery now like I said it works for iPads as well and I have a pretty old
iPad here and I've had two and an iPad Mini one so let me plug in the iPad Mini
now you'll see the iPad Mini is plugged in and it's pretty old it actually gives
us the manufacture date if you didn't notice that from 2012 so it's still
above 80% and had 533 cycles but with an iPad 80% should be around 1000 cycles
and this battery capacity is just fine so you'll see 97% space used iOS version
when it was manufactured so it's it's doing pretty well and iPads seem to last
a lot longer when it comes to that now the last one is the iPad 2 let's plug it
in with the old 30-pin connector see what we get here and you'll see my iPad
2 after 625 cycles is at 80 1.8% now you can check all of the same things out
like this on Windows using 3.you tools and this is not a sponsored review in
any way I just wanted to show you how to do this and hopefully it helps you out
so that's really all there is to this you've got all of these different
capacities and cycle counts and that's really what you care about the most and
this battery is just fine even though it's seven years later so that's it for
battery capacity and battery health these devices have been charged the
exact same way the entire time so 100% at night they've been charged all my
overnight since new so it seems to hold up well now unfortunately you can't
access the health information without using a 30 pin adapter on older iPads
and iOS devices or a lightning connector and that's due to Apple blocking that
after iOS 10 so they block that information to third-party apps for some
reason and you can't see it without a computer but let me know if this was
helpful and I'll link all that information of course for the
applications on both Mac and Windows and also the wallpaper in the description if
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enjoyed the video if not the other ones ok - as always thanks for watching this
is Aaron I'll see you next time