Yep, last time I checked, slower is better for lithium cells. Willing to be re-educated.

Josh is completely right, slower charging is better (slow=less heat=better). Also the charger brand doesn't really matter as the charge CONTROLLER is in the MacBook. Unfortunately another videos about batteries full of misunderstandings. :/

@@valynor Charger brand does make difference, I have used cheap iPhone chargers which would glitch the phone while plugged in, the screen would become unresponsive, charge controller in the iPhone did not do anything. Some cheap chargers should not be used

@@rumbecker5085 well yes but this is by definition a defective charger. It doesn't have to be an Apple charger, e.g. Anker is perfectly fine at a much lower price.

@@valynor Correct so brand does matter, Anker charger are fantastic many other good brands out there but the BRAND DOE matter. Cheap Chinese and other knock offs are garbage, it's very important to get a good brand. As for OEM, there is no way I would pay for an OEM Apple charger

I thought that when you reach 100%, the MacBook system will automatically switch to the plug input and so it’s doesn’t matter if you keep it plugged, it might even be better

@@davidcolti9979 I've heard really conflicting things about point four. Some experts say don't keep it plugged in at 100% and others say it doesn't matter and Mac will automatically optimize the charge. Which is itttttt lol

It shouldnt overcharge..

So what's the practical advice? When your battery reaches 20% you start charging it? And then unplug it at 80%?

Actually it’s pretty bad to let the battery charged at 100% all the time because it strains the cell. A cell in a battery need to not be overly discharged or maintained at peak voltage. In order to not put strain in your battery you need to maintain the cell to a more reasonable voltage an thus maintaining the battery at 60 to 70 % Charge when you a constantly plugged in. You need to do a cycle from time to time to reset the charge controler

indeed, that’s the problem with newer devices & chargers, and the main reason the 12 and 13 iPhone series lose 3 to 4 battery health percentage in less than a year

@@emirmontazeri No, there’s something else at work. I have an iPhone 13, and only charge using an old 5W brick, with optimised charging, and have lost 4% health over nine or ten months.

@@nanolog522 I believe the main factor is heat (besides battery cycle, obv). Maybe your case didn’t let the phone to stay cool during charging, or you used it while charging. Fun fact I actually commented something like this under another video that said turn off optimization as it could damage the battery (still have mine on however), I will link it for you in next comment. Also, I do not think after 10 months, that’s too bad of decrease, just saying my opinion not experience.

I have the iPhone 11 pro max since it came out and my battery 🔋 health is on 95%, the way I charge it : I always plug it in around 8pm and charge only to 98%. I never let it on the charger over night because with my previous iphones I ruined my batteries leaving them plugged in all the time.

@@DobleCTheMinisters cool! What charger do you use?

Right. I don't know why these old-school battery myths still exist. No one is using nickel-cadmium batteries in laptops any longer. Modern battery tech has so many preventative measures in place due to both globally accepted safety regulations as well as tech advancements in the past decade that we simply do not need to worry about anything other than constant and complete full discharges or long term storage whilst the battery is fully expunged. I get the need to pad a video with speech to make it longer for the algorithm, but some further research into what modern battery technology is really all about wouldn't have gone unwarranted. And of *course* they claim that we shouldn't skip software updates. But not because of battery related gains, usually. Take that one wherever you will.

Actually apple engineers already said that letting it drain from 100% to 0% in 1 day, or 20% per day in 5 days you would drain 1 cycle of 0-100% battery charge, the 2 scenarios are actually the same, the point is that the more you use on battery the fastest it ill lose the 1k cycles until the battery completely dies. The same on iPhone. To prolong battery life is more simple to never use on battery hahaha but that kills the purpose of having a MacBook instead of an iMac

@@Natanael_nass true, quite agree on the last part. But if someone's just holding onto a MacBook temporarily and hopes to upgrade in the next generations or so, like I do, quite helps to get the battery capacity higher so the resell price won't get that lowballed much. 😂

@@zayneytem hahahahah Im actually doing the same here! Taking care of my stuff to keep the resell higher 🤣

You should take care of your health if are passing out while working too much lol jk

Yup I always from day 1 when I got my iPhone thought abt if it fully died the life goes down and my iPhone only fully died once or twice because of some reasons but I charge my phone when I gets low and it works

How often do you discharge it to 20%? I've been using mine for almost 9 months now with 32cc and 97% batt health. Most of the time it's plugged in when I'm using it. I was bit shocked when I lost 3% batt health (100-97) real quick in just a month. I still had it at 100% batt health just a month ago then boom 97% real quick. But it was on my 8 month of using it (almost always plugged in) that it started decreasing to 97%. Hope you can help me on this one.

​@@johnlexterrosales143tbh I rarely let it go beyond 20%. Most of the time I plug it between 20% and 80%. The only cases where I let it charge beyond 80 is when I'm performing heavy tasks such editing audio or video. As for today, my MBA M1 base model is currently at 96% and 128 cycles, with a normal battery condition. Is worth metioning that I'm using it as a regular laptop since I have other laptops to perform edition and such. I don't know how old is your MB, but maybe the battery percentage dropped all at once? Mine was slowly decreasing but I know cases where that drops suddenly after a year or so.

I've had my M1 MBP since January of 2021. I've used Al Dente since day 1. I keep my battery limited to 60% on work days (work from home, stays plugged in 8-5), and 80% on weekends. I rarely go below 30% and have only gone below 20% a handful of times. I have charged to 100% occasionally. I have 108 cycles and macOS reports 100% health. Coconut Battery reports 98%. If you're going to keep it plugged in that's fine, just set the limit to 50% or so if you can have a heads up to unplug (to set the limit higher to charge up).

@@quinton1661 How to keep your battery limited to 60% ( I use external monitor , with dock plugged in it always charges my macbook)

warranty makes battery replacements free? or was that apple care plus

@@definingslawek4731 Did you find the answer? Please let me know

The most valuable information is missing: DONT CHARGE TO 100% (if not necessary) soon 150 cycles on a 2021 16" M1 Pro... still 100% battery health Im using AlDente, limiting the charge most of its time anywhere between 50-70% and i use it up anywhere between 30 and 60%. When longer in use on desktop/clamshell mode, its just limited 24/7 to 50%, only upped when needed. Normally once or twice a month i give it a proper 100% charge for balancing (or because i need it anyways) I know, it might be hard to miss on 2-4 hours battery runtime, but considering the M1 and M2 machines are anyways running 12 hours+ on regular use... also, you can anyways charge it to 100% when needed Trust me... just follow this rules: - Avoid especially 0% and as good as possible 100% - charging - im barely using the original 140W power brick, im charging exclusively with a high quality 65W power supply (still fast!). With 140W charging the battery gets very warm, with 65W or in 45W mode it doesnt at all) Slow charging with a higher quality power supply is better than fast charging - ALWAYS! Especially 140W... thats sick! Sometimes a nice to have when you forgot charging... but not really a positiv for regular usage. - avoid charging when the battery/notebook is hot. The middle, smaller cells often get warm when the notebook is under load, thats why often the middle cells age faster and blow up! The 16" M1 Pro even ramp up the fans when charging and the battery is slightly warmer due heat from hardware next to it - cold weather.. yes, the battery performs horrible in cold conditions, but JUST DONT STRESS THE BATTERY when its cold... fast charging or discharging is a NoGo in cold (or hot...) enviroment.

why do you need to recharge it if it is always plugged in????

Wow! I mean, WOW!

What is the point of having a laptop, if you are keeping it plugged all the time. After all those years, how is your battery doing when you need to run your machine only on it?

well he is missing some information All i can tell you: Avoid 100% charge too! I am using AlDente since pretty early as i got the 2021 16" M1 Pro, got now soon 150 cycles on it and still 100% health (dropped already from 102% coconut battery measured) Im limitig the charge mostly anywhere between 50-70%... still a decent runtime, i can top up if i need and if i am stil sticking to AC power... i dont use the battery and it still keeps its optimal charge for longevity. In the future, if we still stick to LiIon/LiPo, a configurable battery management will be standard, until that day Mac users have to rely on AlDente, especially the poor desktop/clamshell mode users only which have a nice notebook but dont use it like that^^

I completely agree. I have used Al Dente for some time now and it greatly increased the battery lifespan of my 2020 13" intel MacBook Pro. After 18 months that battery was still at 98% before it lost an argument with a glass of wine, unfortunately the app cannot protect against this (I will never get over it). My latest 2021 16" M1 Pro is still sitting at 100%. I have always held the charge at 85% when plugged in. I have only charged it higher if I know that I am going to have a particularly heavy day away from a power source. I would highly recommend this app.

@@timblewee Wait.. if I did understand it right, I need to have this app so I could have mac plugged in and it stops charging when it comes to 85%. And I shoud not let mac drop under 50% of battery anytime? Sorry my english is not the best

@@TP-ot7lp your can let it drop below 50% but it's best that you charge it before it goes below 30%. They say that the ideal is between 80/30 add lithium batteries become stressed if the charge goes too low or too high. My iPhone 12 is almost 2 years old but still 100% health despite charging every day on a 20w fast charger because I keep the battery within that threshold. You're best to only go to 100% if you're travelling out have a particularly demanding worlflow and won't have access to a charger. If you're planning on keeping it plugged in for over a week it's best to keep it at 50% as 50% is the most comfortable state of charge of a lithium battery as there's am equal distribution of positive and negative ions. Apple does have a battery optimizer but it's not very effective because it does charge to 100% most times and relies on you having the exact same use pattern every day (e.g. You use it at 10am every day),if you don't have a predictable pattern the Apple algorithm struggles to optimise the battery. That's why Aldente is great, unlike the Apple battery optimizer, it gives you full manual control over when your battery stops charging and even stood charging of it detects that the battery is reaching a dangerous temperature (high temperatures degrades the battery faster) which is something Apple's optimizer can't do. If you want to disable Aldente to charge above the limit it's as simple as switching it off on the taskbar. It's free and the most essential app you can have to best preserve the life of your battery

@@loughrey101 wow thanks for useful info. So to conclude, If I am using it only daily basis its best to have it unplugged when it is on 80% and then when it drops to like 30 or 40 i should plugg it in?

@@TP-ot7lp Well, if you use the Aldente app and you set it to 80%, it'll stop charging at that point and use the plug so you won't be wearing out the battery. It's okay to keep it at 80% while plugged in, it's just if you are the type that leaves it plugged in for weeks is best to set that limit to 50% and the app will automatically drain your battery down to 50% and then switch to the plug, and then when your want to start using the battery again because you're travelling you can switch the app off in thr task bar and charge the battery up.

Sadly some information is missing or wrong, but ok...

@@harrison00xXx what is? Could you explain?

@@abhimanyusareen1670 1) „slow“ charging doesnt hurt the battery, its even better for it! 2) he missed completely the fact that just charging up to 100% hurts the battery already much more than nearly anything else, so his 100-75% down example for 4 days and always recharging is even worse than always discharging to at least 50% for example! But in general… until Apple doesnt implement a manual controllable battery management… you just need AlDente, the Pro version if you are even to lazy to set a slider every few days.

@@abhimanyusareen1670 i would just recommend: - avoid below 30% and above 70-80% charge level - charge „slowly“… in fact even a 45W charger isnt that slow on a 16“ M1 Pro and just take less than 2x as long as the 140W original brick - for higher, sustained load i would recommend a power supply which is „more powerful“ than needed to avoid using the battery as energy puffer Its pretty easy to care a bit about the battery, especially with M1 machines and so since they have literally „too much“ battery runtime

@@harrison00xXx a little bit wrong there, fast charging doesn't hurt the batter AS LONG as it's not heating it up. Heating up and cooling causes the electrolytes in lithium batteries to create crystals stopping the movement of electrons. Another thing, I agree that charging up to 100% harms the battery, but that's only because of overcharging. Newer macbooks have the feature that stops charging the battery after it hits 100%

Fun fact... MacBook Pros from 2008-2012 were made intentionally to abuse the battery as puffer storage because the power supply was not capable of delivering enough for 100% load. So the battery level was going while gaming or maximum load on CPU+GPU slowly down on AC. Some called it an engineering mistake, i think it was intentionally, because you literally needed unreasonable, sustained extreme load on CPU and GPU at the same time (gaming mainly), which the heat was anyways too much for the whole, super slim design cooking your legs/eggs already. I have my 2010 machine still, awesome device, upgraded even the SSD from 500GB to 1TB, so my 2010 MacBook Pro has more SSD than my 2021 M1 Pro base model with 512GB, but also just 8GB Ram vs 16 on the new.

True but make sure the listed power on the charger is actually what it puts out :P which is a worry from cheap chargers

Thanks! Will do!

also it loves you:)

Well, this should be setting in OS / BIOS and has been in Windows laptops for at least a decade: the "100%" really ment 100% of set charging threshold - e.g. 90,80% of total battery capacity.

This video is poorly researched, 'clickbaity', using scare tactics early on to get people to continue viewing it, and is filled to the brim with BS and misinformation that's simply not true. Such as only charging with the Apple issued charger. While it is true that cheap, knockoff chargers can damage your device - any charger that is worth its salt will do just fine. Even if it's of a much higher Wattage than what Apple provided. The power rating of a charger has no real bearing on the batterylife of the device it charges, as long as it doesn't charge the battery faster than the original charger (but still within spec of the charging capabilities of the device). A Macbook that is able to charge at 45 Watt will have just as good battery performance from using an original 45 watt charger, as it would from a 100+ watt third party charger. The device won't charge quicker than its intended 45 watt, but you can absolutely charge a laptop with 45 watt charging on a 100+ watt charger, with no issues what so ever. The device will still only draw 45 watt from the charger, so you're not running any higher risk of killing the port or the battery. Edit: And to add onto that, slow charging shouldn't really hurt batteries either, as long as it's supplying a constant-isch voltage, as any charger worthy of its name would. Heat does hurt battery longevity though, and faster charging generates more heat.

It is suggested to charge your battery powered devices to a maxium of 85%. They also say that our current battery tech is at its peak preformance between 50-85% state of charge and to try to keep it as close to these numbers as possible and to never go past 20% unless needed.

@@SStarlight9614 I personally agree with this - it’s fits my knowledge / research results.

@@mackan072 Welcome to his channel...

What about when it gets to 100%?

ya me too and i also have 2020 macbook pro and i rarely take it off charge

Seems weird to me, but in my Macbook Air M1, I have 232 cycles, and it has 92% battery health, would you mind looking at your battery health?

@@AlejandroAnzolaAvila It says Normal on mine, the percentage is on state of charge

Not only do people worry too much, but they worry about a bunch of shit that isn’t even true lol. These rules apply to most batteries, but not the ones Apple uses. They prioritize your battery’s health over basically everything else. You aren’t gonna do anything they aren’t already doing in software.

All this guys vids are bullshit. They’re aimed at people who aren’t tech savvy, most comments on here are fake or paid for. And almost all his vids are paid commercials for certain apps.

All this guys vids are bullshit. They’re aimed at people who aren’t tech savvy, most comments on here are fake or paid for and almost all his vids are paid commercials for certain apps. More people need to know this.

Use amphetamine app to use monitor with lid off I use it daily Thank me later

Yes it’s Apple approved brand

Yes and don't change your habits, this video is BS. You're supposed to leave your mac plugged and not worry about the battey.

@@amrufy544 Thats obviously because the normal charger does not provide the amount of power the device can technically handle whereas the fast charger does exactly that..🤔

The problem is you left your MacBook plugged in most of the time. This is very stressful. Most EVs use lithium ion batteries and strongly discourage full charges unless you are road tripping. Almost every device uses the same battery chemistry and should be treating the same way.

@Yash 100%

@Yash Dw, it's almost 2 months now (54 days) and it's fine af. Have fun with your new mac!

@Yash Just follow what I said and you should be fine dw

@Yash Macbook's don't need to be shut down often, just shut the lid and you're good to go