Re: [apple-iphone] Conserving Battery

> Does using your phone with the charger/AC conserve battery life as it is my understanding that it is the charge cycles that use up the battery?
> Doris

Yes.
However:

<http://www.apple.com/batteries/>
> A charge cycle means using all of the battery's power, but that doesn't necessarily mean a single charge. For instance, you could listen to your iPod for a few hours one day, using half its power, and then recharge it fully. If you did the same thing the next day, it would count as one charge cycle, not two, so you may take several days to complete a cycle. Each time you complete a charge cycle, it diminishes battery capacity slightly, but you can put notebook, iPod, and iPhone batteries through many charge cycles before they will only hold 80% of original battery capacity.

Elsewhere they state that an iPhone battery should retain 80% of its capacity after 1000 *cycles*.

So if you run the battery flat, and recharge it completely, once every day, then after THREE full years, you will have lost only 20% of its capacity.

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