[iPhone 15PM iOS 17.4] More Information About Battery Health Is Shown In Settings
[iPhone 15PM iOS 17.4] More Information About Battery Health Is Shown In Settings
Looks like cycle count, manufacture date and first use date are all new. I wonder if the information will be accurate for aftermarket batteries?
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It's so weird to me why they limit this to the 15 series. Older phones clearly have this information (you can get this data with coconutBattery) and having this information is hardly a killer feature that makes people upgrade.
"Better cameras? Meh. Faster chip? Meh. Titanium? Meh. Battery cycle count in device settings? AH HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP."
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Wait, really? Wtf?!
Yup. No such information on my iPhone 13 Pro with an original Apple battery under iOS 17.4:
Going a little off-topic, how old is your battery?
I’m sitting at 80% battery health on my 13 Pro, and the battery life definitely reflects that.
Ha, if only this screen would show the manufacturing date, right?
It's basically brand new, I got it swapped by Apple like two weeks ago.
The old one was reported at 89% iirc, but it felt a bit worse than that. Not terrible, but the new one is definitely noticeably better. I got the phone like a month or two after launch, so the old battery was like 2 and 1/4 years old.
Actually, using a Mac with coconutBattery plugged into an iOS device allows you to see the date the battery was manufactured and the cycle count. I imagine there might be other software to pull this information off an iPhone.
This then raises the question why Apple couldn’t show this information within iOS on older models. It obviously has access to this battery information.
As I said in my original comment. Apple simply refuses to display this information on older devices because they don't want to.
Totally agree. Some of the software gatekeeping from Apple frustrates the hell out of me because when you’re spending so much on a self professed premium device something as small as battery age shouldn’t be device specific.
And I think it’s actually harder to code for just one model.