Looks like cycle count, manufacture date and first use date are all new. I wonder if the information will be accurate for aftermarket batteries?

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    It’s so weird to me why they limit this to the 15 series. Older phones clearly have this information (you can get this data with coconutBattery) and having this information is hardly a killer feature that makes people upgrade.

    “Better cameras? Meh. Faster chip? Meh. Titanium? Meh. Battery cycle count in device settings? AH HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP.”

    • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Totally agree. Some of the software gatekeeping from Apple frustrates the hell out of me because when you’re spending so much on a self professed premium device something as small as battery age shouldn’t be device specific.

        • 8Bitz0@discuss.tchncs.de
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          9 months ago

          Going a little off-topic, how old is your battery?

          I’m sitting at 80% battery health on my 13 Pro, and the battery life definitely reflects that.

          • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
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            9 months ago

            Ha, if only this screen would show the manufacturing date, right?

            It’s basically brand new, I got it swapped by Apple like two weeks ago.

            The old one was reported at 89% iirc, but it felt a bit worse than that. Not terrible, but the new one is definitely noticeably better. I got the phone like a month or two after launch, so the old battery was like 2 and 1/4 years old.

            • 8Bitz0@discuss.tchncs.de
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              9 months ago

              Actually, using a Mac with coconutBattery plugged into an iOS device allows you to see the date the battery was manufactured and the cycle count. I imagine there might be other software to pull this information off an iPhone.

              This then raises the question why Apple couldn’t show this information within iOS on older models. It obviously has access to this battery information.

    • zelifcam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Still not as useful as the “BattSaver” jailbreak app 12 years ago. Well, the date is nice, but I don’t think that was possible from batteries 12 years ago.