The Truth About Smartphone Charging Habits
Most popular charging advice is wrong, outdated, or both. Here is what actually keeps a phone battery healthy.
Smit Sharma writes and edits Repair Habit. He is not a licensed technician of anything. What he knows about repair he picked up the ordinary way: watching his father fix things around the flat rather than throw them away, spending two summers as an apprentice in a small electronics shop, and, once he had his own place, running through the mistakes himself on his own washing machine, kettle, chairs, and car. He is a working parent, a slow buyer of new things, and a slightly obsessive maintainer of the ones he already owns. He does not believe repairing your dishwasher makes you a better person. He believes it is often the cheapest and quietest response to a small problem, which is roughly all the philosophy this site carries.
Most popular charging advice is wrong, outdated, or both. Here is what actually keeps a phone battery healthy.
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