Should You Be Charging Your iPhone To 100%? A Tech Expert Explains.

Should you or shouldn’t you? That seems to be the age-old question when it comes to whether or not you should charge your phone to 100 percent in the hopes that this will lessen the number of times you have to seek out a charger. 

But other concerns have arisen in this full-charge debate. Some tech experts say charging your phone to its full capacity is actually worse for your battery and that there is a sweet spot when it comes to a charged phone: it should be kept between 30 and 80 percent charged. 

What does Apple Explained have to say about the matter? 

Let’s find out once and for all: should you charge your iPhone to 100 percent? 

Let’s get right to the point: tech experts do not approve of charging your device way up to 100 percent on a regular basis. The type of battery used by your phone is lithium-ion and it is only useful for so long before it begins to degrade. (You can check your battery health in settings to see where you stand).

Charging to 100 percent and then allowing your battery level to dip all the way down is considered a “Deep Discharge” that “exhausts the lithium battery cells faster than charging to 80 or ninety percent.”