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How to check how many

battery cycles is your Apple
iPhone battery on

posted by Victor H.
Dec 07, 2018, 7:55 AM

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An iPhone battery usually lasts throughout a full

workday, but rarely much more than a day, which
means that you still need to do the ritual of
nightly recharging. Also, just like on most Apple
devices, the battery inside iPhones is a Lithium-
Ion (Li-Ion) one, meaning that it degrades after
time.

With recent iPhone performance slow-down

reports linking CPU performance to battery
health, you might want to know one crucial detail
about the battery: how used is it exactly?

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What are iPhone battery

cycles?

Battery age is measured in battery cycles, where

one cycle is equal to the process of draining and
completely !lling up the battery once. This can
mean that you use up your battery from 100%
until the phone is at 0%, or completely dead, or
you can drain 55% of that battery one day and
45% the next day, and together, the two days
combine for one, complete 100% battery cycle.

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Now that we know how you get 1 battery cycle

count, we need to know how many cycles can an
iPhone battery go through before its capacity
deteriorates signi!cantly. Apple's o"cial support
page gives the following Li-Ion battery longevity
for di#erent products.

How long is a battery supposed

to last?

iPhone - 500 cycles

Apple Watch - 1,000 cycles
iPad - 1,000 cycles
iPod - 400 cycles
Macbook - 1,000 cycles

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Typically it would take about two years - but it

could be more or less depending on individual
usage - to get to that critical number. When you
hit that limit, this means that the Li-Ion battery
has degraded to 80% of its full capacity.

So how do you check how many battery cycles is

your iPhone battery on? Apple has blocked apps
reporting battery cycle count on the App Store, so
you will need to your iPhone, a Lightning cable
and a desktop computer to check. While there
may be other solutions, we use iBackupBot, an
app available for both Windows and Mac as a free
7-day trial and paid after that. We walk you
through the process of setting it up and learning
about your iPhone battery cycle count right
below.

How to check your iPhone

battery cycles

1. You will need to download the iCopyBot

program for your desktop computer. Make sure
to download the correct version for your system.

2. Open the iPhone listed under Devices (1st

arrow). You should see a picture of an iPhone
with various options on the right panel. Click on
"More information" (2nd arrow).

3. All of the relevant info should be visible right

there. We have an almost brand new iPhone XS
Max that is just on 21 cycles. Since the battery
on iPhones is rated for 500 cycles, it should still be
in great battery health for the next few years.

4. However, starting with iOS 11.3, you might skip

the aforementioned steps and simply check the
Battery Health menu of your device, which will
show you a percentage of the overall battery
health, You won't see the total battery cycles, but
the important information will be visible right
there.

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