Newer versions of iOS offer a lot of information about the iPhone battery but some of it can be more difficult to find. Going to Settings> Battery and “Battery Status” it is possible to obtain various details but one data that could be interesting is missing: how many times has the iPhone battery been charged?
When using the iPhone, the battery goes through recharging cycles. A charge cycle occurs when all battery power is used, but this does not necessarily correspond to a single charge (sometimes you can charge a phone not fully). However, batteries have a limited number of charge cycles before their performance diminishes. You can use the battery even after it has reached its maximum number of cycles, but this may result in a reduction in battery life.
Apple explains that the iPhone battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity for 500 full charge cycles. Details are given in this technical support document but the battery is typically designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity after 500 full charge cycles, operating under normal conditions. With chemical aging, the battery will have a lower capacity and, as a result, the hours of use between charges will decrease. Depending on the time elapsed between manufacturing and activating the iPhone, the battery capacity may be slightly below 100%.
How to know in any case the number of recharge cycles? It can be done using the coconutBattery app by connecting the iPhone to the Mac but also without dedicated utilities. Here’s how to get this data without third party utilities:
1) Open Settings> Privacy> Analytics and improvements
2) Select “Analysis data”
3) Scroll down the list until you find the first file in the list called log-aggregated-2021xxxx or similar name (the file includes the date in the name).
4) Send the file via AriDrop to the Mac or via Mail to any PC.
5) In the text file in question you have to locate the entry “BatteryCycleCount”: the number in question corresponds to the number of charging cycles of the phone.
It is obviously just a curiosity and the simplest and fastest way is to rely on the aforementioned utility coconutBattery
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