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A few years ago, Apple added a new option into the battery settings of iOS (only iOS, as iPad OS does not have this feature), where it would tell you the battery health. It is also on macOS, but for some reason not available on the iPad, yet. This came about because of the claims that Apple was slowing down your iPhone as it got older – which Apple claimed was to keep the battery in tip-top shape.
Anyways, now that users can easily see their battery health, many are obsessing over it. And this year, we’re seeing a lot more people obsessing over their battery health on the iPhone 14 series, because it seems like it’s degrading faster than ever before.
My iPhone 14 Pro is officially useless 🙃
After 10 months, my battery health has dropped under 90% pic.twitter.com/wnsVIq5tjO
— Apple Hub (@theapplehub) August 3, 2023
We’re seeing a number of users that are under 90% battery health after a little more than 10 months. Now, Apple says that your iPhone should only lose about 20% of its health after about 500 cycles. If you’re charging every day, than that means it should last about 18 months. Keep in mind that a full cycle is any combination that equals 100%. So if you charge it twice from 50% to 100%, that’s one single cycle.
So why is the iPhone 14 degrading so much faster this year?
While it could be degrading faster this year due to the fact that something changed in the batteries, my bet is the overall battery life on the iPhone 14 series. Since the initial reviews came out last year, people have been complaining about battery life and how it does not last a full day unless you got the iPhone 14 Plus or Pro Max.
Thus forcing users to charge more often, and use more of those precious battery cycles in a shorter time. This might be fixed in the iPhone 15 series, since we’re getting a more efficient, 3nm chipset. But we’re also rumored to be getting significantly larger batteries on these new phones. We’ll see in a couple of weeks when Apple officially announces the iPhone 15.