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Re:Jony Ive: 8 hits and 8 misses from 20 years at Apple by habitue on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:02PM (#20452915)
So my understanding is that all Li-Ion batteries come with circuitry that explicitly keeps track of the battery condition and minimizes charging when unnecessary, even if it's plugged in. I don't think it's just "juice goes in until it's full"

Can anyone more knowledgeable confirm?

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Re:Jony Ive: 8 hits and 8 misses from 20 years at Apple by andromeduck on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:41PM (#20453198)
Usually that just means it lets the charge level drop to ~98% or something before topping it off again which I'm sure they do but having doing anything with a lipo slowly kills it to some degree including simply being near high and low states of charge so it's no silver bullet.

What they would need to do is detect when the port has been has been connected regularly for days and let the charge level drop to some announcement proportionate to the frequency and duration.

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