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I ignored Apple's battery advice for 140 days - here's what happened to my iPhone

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I've charged this iPhone in all the wrong ways... for science! Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET

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ZDNET's key takeaways

It's normal for iPhone battery health to stay at 100% for the first few months.

Expect battery health to drop by 1 percentage point every 50 recharge cycles.

Modern batteries are very resilient and can take a lot of abuse.

My iPhone 17 Pro Max was one of the first to roll off the production line and into people's hands on launch day. Since I'd spent the previous two years absolutely babying the battery in my iPhone 15 Pro Max, I decided to take a different approach this time around.

Also: After charging my iPhone the 'Apple way' for 2 years, here's the state of its battery now

I don't think it has made any difference.

What I've done so far

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