This could be "fixed" right now by a software update that limits the maximum charge level to 80% of capacity. However, this comes at the cost of how many minutes of runtime your phone can operate.

So manufactures might just responds to this by making your phone heavier with a bigger battery that is being under utilized.

I was wondering about that. I lost my iPhone 13 mini the other day, did the find my phone beep thing and got a distant beep from my washing machine which was on wash cycle.

Surprisingly the phone was fine and works fine after a brief rinse under the tap. It must be hard to combine that sort of water resistance with easy user changing.

And what about if 4 years they says that they have dettected a problem in your battery? A new battery should fix that but now you cannot do it properly because it could do 1000 cycles.

This same thing happened to Pixels 6a after 500 cycles.

Is 1000 cycles above 80% even possible without gimping the device like apple does with all its hardware?

What if they don't? What if there are manufacturer errors? What if they burn your battery with updates along the way?

Isn't like most of the new phones claim at least 1000 cycles?

> Low cost phones will be most affected.

Not really. Take a 4000 mAh rated cell, advertise it as "rated for 3500 mAh" and that's it.

Wish they'd have implemented it before the iPhone 14 Pro launched. I'm at 624 cycles right now and my phone's gone below 80% fucking ages ago.

Funnily enough I've had a "low cost phone" with replaceable batteries (the "old school way")

So it does not seem a big deal