3 ways to check the battery status of your iPhone

how to check iPhone battery status

IPhone batteries have returned to the forefront of the news. Apple commented that with the degradation of these, it made the performance of Cupertino smartphones lower their performance. Therefore, the vast majority concluded that the best solution was change the batteries when their condition begins to decrease.

Some will say that a year; others that every two years; others will comment that when we really notice a significant drop in performance on our iPhone. But the truth is that the best thing is to have controlled the 'health' of our iPhone at all times. And we are going to give you 3 easy ways to carry out by yourself.

Check iPhone battery status from Settings

iPhone battery status from Settings

As would happen on a Mac, Apple's own operating system - iOS in this case - will alert you to an anomaly in the performance of your battery. In order to see if everything is normal, you must enter Settings> Battery. If there is a problem, it will be the terminal itself that will notify you that you should replace the battery or attend an Apple support center. If no message appears on the screen, you shouldn't worry. Also remember that Apple can diagnose your terminal at any time.

Check iPhone battery status from macOS Console

Check iPhone battery status with macOS Console

On the other hand, it is also true that until you see on the screen that everything works correctly, many users do not remain calm. So the following method will tell us if the iPhone battery is working correctly or not. In this case we will need another team more. You will need to use a Mac and its free "Console" application. To launch it you must go to Applications> Utilities> Console.

Second, you will have to connect your iPhone to the USB port of the computer with macOS with the cable lightning. If it's the first time you do it, The iPhone will send you a message asking if the computer it connects to is trusted or not. After accepting the message, you will see that in the left sidebar of «Console», in addition to showing your Mac, the iPhone you connect also appears.

Third you will have to select it in the sidebar and type in the search box of the application the word battery health. After a few seconds a message should appear and when you click on it, more details will be displayed at the bottom of the screen and we will be able to verify that one of the lines corresponds to "batteryhealth" - battery health. In my specific case, my iPhone 7 Plus has a status of "good" —good in English — so I shouldn't worry.

Check iPhone battery status with coconutBattery

check iPhone battery with coconutbattery

The last method that we want to present to you is to use a third-party app. Again you will have to use a Mac to check the battery status of your iPhone. The app we are referring to is the free one coconutBattery. After downloading, with her You can check both the battery status of your Mac -in case of being a laptop- and that of your device with iOS -iPhone or iPad-.

You will see that the coconutBattery control panel is very easy to use and everything will be well explained. In addition, you will have three tabs to consult. As you may have guessed, the one that interests us is the one that refers to iOS. There we can check the status of our battery. That is to say: the current charge, how much charge we can get as a maximum compared to the original figure and what is the total capacity of the battery. Likewise, we will be able to know the charge / discharge cycles or know the details of the equipment itself: serial number, production date, the age of the equipment in days, as well as the type of charger that is being used or the processor that it uses.


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