04 Jun 6 Signs It’s Time to Replace Your iPhone Battery

These days we use our phones for way more than just making phone calls and all that use means your iPhone’s battery is gonna get some serious wear and tear the batteries and iPhones and all cell phones are consumable products, in fact, the average iPhone battery retains only 80 percent of its original capacity after 500 cycles. To put that into perspective, if you charge your iPhone battery every night for a year and a half, the battery meter would still read a hundred percent but your battery life would only last 80% as long as it did when you first got it.

To put you another example, when your car needs a new battery, because it doesn’t start out, but how do you know when it’s time to replace the battery in your phone here are six signs that it may be time to swap out your iPhone’s battery

Your iPhone often turns itself off

if your iPhone suddenly shuts itself down when the battery is at 50% or so the calibration might be off to calibrate your iPhone follow these steps

step 1

use your iPhone until it shuts itself down due to low battery

step 2

plug your iPhone into a reliable charger and let it charge uninterrupted to a hundred percent

step 3

once it’s charged perform a soft reset by holding your sleep/wake button and your home button down until the Apple logo shows up if you’re on an iPhone 10 you’ll be holding down the sleep/wake button and the volume button

If that didn’t solve the problem the battery may be the culprit and you should replace it

What’s happening is that lithium-ion batteries have a voltage range in which they operate safely, and this is enforced by the power circuitry, as lithium ions age their internal resistance grows so when the phone does something processor-intensive, it draws significant current pass this current through the increased battery resistance and you get added heat generation and substantial voltage drop.

Your phone feels sluggish

If you’re using an iPhone 6 or later you may be subject to CPU throttling if you’re running iOS 11.3 or later you can check your battery health by going to the Settings app select the battery option in the list and then select battery health under peak performance capability if you see a warning that your battery health is significantly degraded it’s time for a replacement

Your iPhone has terrible battery life

This is especially true with iPhone 5s or earlier. iPhones aren’t affected by cpu throttling so the only sign of a dying battery will be shortened usage times swap out the battery and you’ll be boosting the battery life

Your iPhone works but only when it’s plugged in

You might have thought your phone was completely dead but when you plug it in it magically comes back to life. Unfortunately, no matter how long you leave it plugged in, as soon as you disconnect the power cord, it shuts right down sign

Your phone gets hot like really, really hot

It’s normal for your iPhone to generate heat during heavy use and charging, but if you notice that your phone’s becoming too hot to touch, it might be time for a new battery,

and lastly

Your batteries got bloat

This can be a tricky one to spot, but you’ll know it when you see it batteries can sometimes swell due to a failure of the smart circuitry or physical damage it’s like getting one bet in your back pocket. You may start to notice some unexplained bowing or case separation along the sides of your phone a hazy white screen or even some squishiness when pressing down on your screen in some more extreme cases you might even see some unexplained screen cracking.

No matter how you discover it a swollen battery is something that requires immediate attention the battery should be treated and disposed of properly as soon as possible

If you’re experiencing any of these battery problems head on over to our contact form and contact us! we can repair it, so, you won’t need to do it yourself.