Want to extend your iPhone battery life? Stop making this common mistake

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET I have spent a lot of time writing about how battery wear is a fact of life, and the more a battery is used, the more it will wear. It is a consumable item, and it will wear. Also: 12 Android phone settings you should change to dramatically increase battery life But there are also things that we can do to prevent battery wear. A research paper led by Jihyun Hong at Postech and Jongsoon Kim at Sungkyunkwan University on EV (electric vehicle) batteries uncovers a new enemy -- too much discharge. Discharging EV batteries harms them Without getting too deep into the chemistry and physics of battery wear, the study discusses a newly identified mechanism of oxygen loss in layered oxide cathodes used in lithium-ion batteries, specifically during the discharge process at voltages below 3.0V. Because of this additional wear, the study emphasizes the importance of carefully setting DCOVs (discharge cut-off voltages) to slow down degradation and improve battery lon ... Read full article.