How to Check Your iPhone Battery Health

This guide is designed to show you how to check your iPhone's battery status and get the most out of charging your iPhone.

iPhone and other smartphone batteries slowly degrade over time. The more often they are charged, the more they degrade. The degree of battery degradation also depends on how the device is charged.

There are a number of things you can do to make sure your battery lasts longer, Apple and other manufacturers have incorporated some of these features into their devices.

Apple offers a feature that lets you check your iPhone's battery status and optimize device charging to ensure you're getting the maximum battery life from your device.

How to check iPhone battery status?

This can easily be done on your iPhone from your device's settings menu. To check the current battery status, you need to go to Settings > Battery, then Battery Status.

This will show you the maximum battery capacity of the iPhone, as you can see from the image above, my iPhone battery health is showing 95%. That's not bad considering the device is an iPhone 11 Pro Max from 2019. One of the reasons for that is that I've been using Apple's Optimized Battery Charging ever since it's been available, that makes definitely a difference to your battery health.

How do you configure Optimized Battery Charging and what is it?

To set up optimized battery charging on your iPhone, you need to go to Settings > Battery, then select Optimized Battery Charging. The feature is now set up and after a few days your iPhone will learn how you use the device when you charge it and when is the best time to charge the device.

If you charge your iPhone overnight, it will work when you wake up in the morning, then your device will be 80% charged, then a few hours before you get up, the remaining 20% ​​will be charged. What this does is extend the life of your iPhone's battery, the majority of the load is only on the battery when it remains to be charged at full charge.

This is a great feature that works well, the only downside is that if you go out of your routine the device may not be fully charged. For example, I get up at 6 a.m., but if I get up a day earlier, say 4 a.m., my iPhone might not be 100% charged, so you need to remember that if you are going to be outside of your usual routine.

How can I see which apps are using my iPhone battery?

If you want to see which apps are using your iPhone's battery life this can be done easily, to do this go to Settings > Battery then scroll down you will see a list of apps who have used your battery in the last 24 hours as well as the last 10 days.