- Charging our iPhones
is something that most of us do every single day.
And still, there are a ton of myths out there
about charging your iPhone.
Our first two myths are kind of intertwined.
It's don't charge your iPhone overnight
and don't let it drain down to 0%.
- It's totally okay nowadays
to let your iPhone drain to 0% and to charge it overnight,
which would mean that it's gonna go all the way up to 100%.
Most people remember the days when,
if you didn't discharge your battery,
if you didn't exercise your battery regularly,
then it would just die, stop working.
- No longer the case.
And here's a direct quote from Apple.com.
Charge your Apple lithium ion battery whenever you want.
Pretty simple, pretty straightforward.
Don't worry about it.
- Apple built in smart battery charging,
where if you use the first 40% of the battery
and then charge it back up to 100%,
it doesn't use that same 40% the next time,
the next time it's gonna use
the next section of the battery.
So you're never gonna be using
the same section of the battery over and over again,
which is what used to happen with the old batteries.
And then yeah.
- So one charge cycle is 100%.
So 75 to 25, you charge it up to 70, bring it down to 20.
That's 100%, that's one charge cycle.
And iPhones are rated for 500 charge cycles.
After that time they'll still maintain
about 80% battery capacity.
- Right, that's pretty good.
- Pretty good.
- Yeah, 500 cycles,
just to plug another one of our videos
that you really should watch.
The battery health number in the settings app,
the percentage is total BS.
So watch our other video
we debunk another bunch of myths over there.
And yeah, I think that you'll be surprised.
- I know a less common myth,
you shouldn't charge your iPhone straight out of the box.
And I think this is people who are just afraid of,
they got their new iPhone. They don't wanna plug it in,
break it because Apple doesn't explicitly say
plug in your iPhone,
but there's nothing wrong with taking your iPhone
out of the box and charging it straight away.
- Most of the time though it comes charged to 80%,
somewhere in there.
So generally, you don't have to do that, yeah.
- So let's talk about some tips we have for you.
First of all, always use MFI-certified cables.
- Right, MFI stands for made for iPhone.
I used to think of it as MFI number.
- I do.
- Yup.
Those are Apple certified.
They have a chip built into them.
This is an Apple cable, so obviously it has the chip.
If you don't use an MFI certified cable,
you're gonna see that warning pop up on your iPhone,
this accessory is not supported.
- It's hard to find non-MFI certified cables these days.
If you go on Amazon, all the Amazon basics cables
are MFI certified, for instance,
and any MFI cable will say so on the box you buy it in.
But you just avoid the cheap gas station cables
or the dollar store cables,
those are typically not the ones you wanna use.
Our second tip has to do with wall chargers.
Wall chargers don't get MFI certification.
But you still need to be careful about which ones you buy.
- That's for sure.
So you don't wanna buy one that's a fast charger
that's not an Apple fast charger.
And it has to do with the amperage of the charger.
So this is a smart charger, Apple charger.
But if you buy one that's three amps,
which is a lot of power to throw at an iPhone at once,
it'll charge the battery too fast,
which will cause the battery to heat up.
Both of those things are bad for lithium-ion batteries.
Not a myth.
- Not a myth, that's a fact.
- That's a real fact.
- Our next tip, subscribe to this channel.
Sounds cheesy, but we do have a lot of iPhone battery tips
videos that'll really help you
need to charge your iPhone less.
- Exactly.
- Next let's talk about low power mode.
It's a useful feature when you're in a pinch
and you can't get to a charger straight away,
but it's not something you should be using all the time.
- Why not dude?
- Well, it means you have a software problem.
If you'd have to turn it off and you're at 80%
and your battery just drains crazy fast,
there's a software problem with your iPhone
that you should probably address.
- Yep, or less likely a hardware problem with your iPhone.
We talk about that a lot on this channel,
especially when there are new bugs,
new iOS updates that come out,
there's always new problems with batteries.
Subscribing is a great way to mitigate that risk.
- 99% Of iPhone battery problems are software-related,
and low power mode turns off a bunch of these features
in the background that we'd recommend
turning off all the time anyway.
So just do that and you won't really need
to use low power mode.
- Exactly, but it's kind of an overkill thing too, right?
It turned some things off that maybe you wanna have on.
So our battery tips are not turn off GPS
and turn off everything on your phone
'cause that's a way to save power,
but also we wanna be able to use our phones.
- Let's talk about wireless charging.
A lot of people are concerned
about the heat that wireless chargers give off.
And the heat that they give off is normal.
Wireless chargers are simply less efficient
than wired charging so the energy that can't be transferred
turns into heat.
And it's normal for your iPhone to get a little bit hotter.
- Wow, this is a very technical explanation.
- You can maximize the efficiency of your wireless charger
by just placing your iPhone right on the center of the pad
or MagSafe does it for you with some of the newer iPhones.
- Yeah.
So if your iPhone is getting blazing hot, that's a problem.
But if it's just getting warm, not a problem.
- Also these MagSafe chargers,
they're not just for the newer iPhones,
any phone that supports cheap wireless charging
can use a MagSafe charger
'cause it is a cheap wireless charger with magnet.
- With magnets.
Apple on their website says
that you can use a MagSafe charger with older iPhones,
but it won't charge as quickly
as a regular cheap charger would
because of the smart Apple circuitry.
So MagSafe, great for iPhone 12 and later,
not the best for earlier iPhones
but they will work in a pinch.
- Yeah, sometimes you get comments where people too say,
and sometimes their charger works, sometimes it doesn't,
it disconnects frequently.
A lot of these charging issues are just caused by
pocket lint building up in your iPhone's charging port.
- This is such a good fix rate.
- So if you've got a brand new toothbrush
or an anti-static brush,
just start scraping out some of the stuff in here,
I think a little bit just came out.
But to scrape it out and you're having charging issues
that will fix a lot of charging problems with your iPhone.
- Yeah, intermittent connection issues.
And sometimes people try to jam in a cable
when there's actually something in there
and end up breaking stuff.
I've seen rice in there.
Maybe try to do that.
- Try to clean up the lighting port with rice.
- Well, no. - They got the rice up there.
- They got the rice in there
when they dropped it in the lake.
And then the rice is what breaks the phone.
- There's another myth, don't put your iPhone in rice.
- Yeah, it doesn't really work.
- Next quick chip for you.
If you try to put your iPhone on a wireless charger
and a wall charger at the same time, it won't work.
When your iPhone is connected to a wireless charger,
lightning port automatically gets cut off.
- I didn't know that.
I had no idea.
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