A replacement smartphone battery does not come cheap. Perhaps someday we’ll throw away the phone. Whatever the case, it makes sense to stretch our Apple battery life as much as we can. There’s a pile of baloney on Google as high as the empire state tower on this one. We take the radical approach of asking Apple what it thinks.
What Apple Says About Apple Battery Life
Battery life is how long a battery lasts before we have to charge it again. While battery lifespan is how many months or years we can do this before the benefits no longer apply. Operating temperature affects both these factors.
Apple builds its phones to operate in a human-friendly temperature range. They should perform better between 16° to 22° C (62° to 72° F). But they could suffer permanent damage above 35° C (95° F). Fortunately the effects of low temperatures are temporary and don’t permanently shorten Apple battery life.
Apple presumably designs its phone cases with these operating temperatures in mind. That’s why it makes little sense to keep their phones in vanity carry cases that make them warmer during battery charging. Keep life simple, or words to that effect.
Be Nice to Your Apple in Storage
It can happen you don’t need your phone for a while. However, the electrochemistry inside still keeps going. Apple recommends not leaving a fully-charged phone idle. That’s because it may forget some of its settings and come back with a shorter battery life.
And finally, don’t leave your Apple phone battery fully discharged for a while either. It might enjoy the long slumber so much it never wakes up again. That’s about all the company has to say about Apple battery life. The rest, it seems, could be baloney.
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