T4rd
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Charging overnight is also bad for batteries to the point where the new optimal charging option on the iPhones learns when you generally wake up and holds the battery charge level at 80% until it's closer to when you're about to start the day before charging to 100%.
I just leave it uncharged at 73% when I go to bed, wake up at 71% and am confident it'll last the full day anyway.
Like I said before, I've been manually doing this myself with my 2 XL (with excellent results 18 months later) and really with other OEMs would do something similar to that where we can cap charges at 80% just to save on battery wear. If they didn't all seal the batteries in glass water-tight sandwiches, it wouldn't be a big deal to me since I've replaced my own batteries on my previous One M8 and Nexus 6P that were easier to open up and work on. But they keep making phones harder to repair due to the stupid water resistance and wireless charging that I never really cared about at any point.
I think Sony does something similar to that charging cap though and maybe Huawei, but no one else that I've seen does it.
Here's what my 2 XL's battery health looks like and I got it in March 2018.
I kind of just expect the battery to need replacement after 2 years anyway, so I don't bother babying my batteries.
If you were able to soft cap them though, it will still give you more total battery capacity throughout its life cycle and I'm not sure why anyone wouldn't want that, esp. when Apple makes it so that it requires zero effort on your part.
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