If you are an iPhone user, it is quite important to keep on checking your battery cycle count because the iPhone’s battery is one of the biggest issues every iPhone user is facing. Checking your battery cycle count can be an excellent way to determine the condition of your iPhone’s battery. Thus, giving you an idea about how the battery has aged over the years.
We all are familiar with Apple’s method of displaying the battery health of our iPhones. This can help to compare the battery cycle with Apple’s health percentage to gain even more insight into our battery.
So, before you get you know how you can check your battery cycle count on your iPhone, here is a brief explanation of what this Battery Cycle Count exactly means.
What does the Battery Cycle Count mean?
The Term Battery Cycle Count simply means how many times your phone’s battery is fully charged and depleted. It means when a user exhausts the battery of a fully charged iPhone, it means his/her phone completed one battery cycle.
In general practices, rare people are using this method of fully charging their phones. Let’s assume you have a fully charged iPhone and you use it for an hour and it remains 40% meaning that you used 60% of the battery. Then, you charge it again up to 100%. Since you only used 60% of the battery, that means you have not completed a full charge cycle yet. This will only count when you use another 40% of the battery. Because this will only add up to a total of 100%, no matter how many times you charge your iPhone in the middle.
Thus, the battery cycle count would ideally show the total number of times you have used 100% of the battery’s capacity. Even if you ever used it a little bit at a time in between charging.
How to check your iPhone’s Battery Cycle Count?
If you want to check your iPhone’s Battery Cycle Count, you will only be able to check if you are sharing your iPhone analytics with Apple. If you are not doing it, you need to turn this on and wait for two days before you go ahead with these steps.
To enable this option and check your cycle count:
- Press the option Settings app on your iPhone and scroll down to select Privacy from the settings menu.
- In the same section, scroll down to the bottom and tap on Analytics & Improvements.
- After tapping this option, you will be able to see if you are sharing analytics with Apple here.
- Next, tap on the option called Analytics Data.
- While scrolling down, you find a file that starts with Log-aggregated. Sometimes, it happens that there are so many files with the same name, select the one at the bottom because that’s the latest one.
- There come the lines of code. Tap anywhere on the code to access the selection tool and drag it to select everything in the file.
- Next press the selected portion and choose Copy to store it in the clipboard.
- Launch the Notes app on your iPhone and create a new note. Tap on the screen and choose Paste.
- Tap on the three dots icon in the upper-right corner of the screen to access more options. Choose option Find in Note.
- Now, simply type Battery Cycle Count and the Notes app will move you to the exact position in the file. Here you will find a number right below the highlighted line. So, this is the battery cycle of your iPhone.
So, now you have what you need. You can use the Notes app since there is no way to search for a specific line of code within the log-aggregated file. Users can easily scroll and find it but sometimes, it will take a lot of time.
Why is it essential to monitor your iPhone’s Battery?
After reading all the above data now that a user knows both the battery cycle count and the battery health percentage, he/she can better understand his/her iPhone battery’s condition.
According to Apple, the iPhone battery is designed to retain 80% of its maximum capacity by the time it reaches 500 charge cycles. One thing to check is if you see a much higher battery cycle count with similar battery health that means that you have a good charging habit. So, you are preserving the battery quite well.