But at least you can now rest assured that nothing bad will happen to your iPhone if it stays plugged in longer than you think it should. Most people recharge their devices that way, and it’s unlikely anyone wakes up to check the battery status and unplug the phone when charging is complete.

That only happens when you start using the device. If the phone is plugged in after the battery is fully recharged, whether it’s at night or during the day, won’t affect the number of cycles. So I grabbed an Android and an iOS phone (P30 Pro and XS Max to be specific) and charged them both for 15 mins while on and while off to see if there was any change in the speed. Getting back to battery life, cycle count refers to the number of full charges a phone can get you before the battery starts degrading. One such thing and what I want to test today is the claim I’ve heard over and over that if you turn off your phone while it is charging, it’ll charge faster. Around the same time, battery problems may be experienced on the one-year old device, and that’s when theories about Apple making iPhones obsolete come out. Conversely, about a year after the iPhone launches a new operating system is released. After that, battery capacity may be diminished, and you’ll experience lower battery life than before. The iFixit expert explains that a typical smartphone battery will get you about 400 charge cycles in total, which means the phone will last about a year and a half.

Does your phone charge when its off