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by SkyPuncher 1658 days ago
I've adopted a different solution - use an old charger. I have a seemingly endless supply of them sitting around. They were never powerful enough to begin with, so they charge many times slower than modern chargers.

This is ideal for over night charging for me. From a nearly empty battery, it charger my phone to about 95% during a normal night. If I need to top off, I throw it on the quick charger while I get ready for the day.

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That was what I was doing too. From one of the articles referenced on chargie.io [0] I learned battery lifetime is mostly about

- heat, which indeed potentially is lower with the small chargers, see Table 2

- keep between 35-75% charge level, see Figure 3.

With the astonishing battery life of the iPhone 13 under most daily use, even the _mini_, I will never go outside 35-75%. IOW I'm planning to buy a few Chargies, also leaving 1 or 2 in the car. That way I can use the iPhone 13 for another 6 years, like I did with the iPhone 6.

[0] https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-...