iPhone Cycle Count Explained: What's Actually Good
iPhone 15 and later are rated for 1,000 charge cycles to 80% capacity, not the 500 you may have read elsewhere. What a cycle is, and how to check yours.
iPhone 15 and later are rated for 1,000 charge cycles to 80% capacity, not the 500 you may have read elsewhere. What a cycle is, and how to check yours.
A new iPhone dropping to 99% battery health is the single most posted-about battery worry on Reddit, and it is almost never a problem. iPhone 15, 16 and 17 are rated for 1,000 cycles to 80%, about one point per 50 cycles. Here is the math, the recalculation quirks, and the four cases that actually d
87% battery health is good for any iPhone older than a year and typical at two years. Match your percentage against your phone's age in one lookup table, see what the missing points cost in real hours, and learn when a number is genuinely bad.