The batteries used in iPhones and iPads are quite different from the ones used in Android devices. These batteries are infamous for only lasting a certain amount of cycles and you can know about it through certain calculations.
As an Apple user, the concept of the Battery Cycle will be important. In basic terms, a Basic Cycle refers to a full drain of a battery’s charge – from 100% to 0%. It doesn’t necessarily need to happen at once. For instance, if your iPhone or iPad battery drops from 100% to 30%, then you charge it back to 100%, after which it drains to 70%, then it will constitute one cycle.
With that in mind, it can be deduced that the lower your device’s battery cycle count, the healthier will be the battery. You can easily check the battery health of your iPhone’s battery but this isn’t necessarily the case with iPads. Hence, finding out the health and count of your iPad’s battery cycle will be important. This is where this guide will come in handy. In this guide, you will get to know how to check battery cycle count on iPhones and iPads.
Steps to check battery cycle count on iPhones and iPads
To get the job done, you will need to use this shortcut file created by Redditor tgjames01 (remember that it will only work on iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 but not on iOS 17). You should remember that just importing this shortcut to the Shortcuts app will not get the job done, you’ll also need to share the Analytics file with Apple.
The files are not generated unless sharing with Apple has been turned on. It will take you roughly 24 hours to generate the first one.
Once you’ve checkmarked all the requirements, you can then use the shortcut. Doing this will give you a log file titled “Analytics-XXXX-XX-XX”. Xs will be the date starting with the year, which will give you the battery cycle information.
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