The battery is undoubtedly one of the most important components of any iPhone. That is why a lot of importance is always attached to its real state, and it can be consulted through the charging cycles. In this article we explain how to consult them without jailbreak.
What are charge cycles?
If you want to get an idea of the status of your device’s battery, one of the data that you should view is the charge cycles. The batteries of the latest iPhone have up to 500 cycles, the integrity is fully adequate to be able to maintain 80% of the charge of its original capacity.
But … how can one of these cycles be consumed? It’s simple, each one represents a full charge from 0 to 100%. When you have the iPhone fully charged and you download it to 0% without having gone through the charger at any time, you will have consumed one of these cycles. As the battery is consumed, it degrades, offering less autonomy over the months. That is why the recommendation is always to charge whenever possible to prevent them from being consumed.
The level of charge cycles must be taken into account that it is one of the values to take into account when evaluating the battery and its integrity, but it is not the only one. The advantage it has is that it is a value that can be consulted by users without having to jailbreak as it is in Apple‘s own system status reports.
An alternative to battery health
In iOS, a section is included within ‘Battery’ that allows you to know the status of the battery as a percentage. This is information that is based on the state of battery degradation that could be said to come out of these charging cycles. Although many other variables are included here and on some occasions it can end up giving information that is not truthful. That is why the query of the charging cycles can give users a clearer assessment of the real state of the battery in this regard.
Check load cycles without jailbreak
To check the number of load cycles the most common was undoubtedly to install an application through the jailbreak. But currently this cannot be omitted since this information is given to us by the operating system itself through the different diagnostic reports that are automatically recorded throughout the life of the device. In order to get the necessary file you simply have to follow the following steps:
- On the iPhone go to Settings.
- Access the ‘Privacy’ section.
- At the end of this page you should enter ‘Analysis and improvements’.
- Access ‘Analysis data’.
Once here you should not be overwhelmed at any time even if you see a lot of files. You will simply have to find the file that begins with ‘log-aggregated’ following the alphabetical order by which they are organized. Once you find this block of files you should go to the last one that will be at the bottom as this is the most recent. In the file name you will see the creation date.
Once located, click on it, a lot of text will appear where different diagnostic data are included. To facilitate the search for the charging cycles section, you must select everything and copy it. Once this is done in the ‘Notes’ application, you can paste everything you have copied.
In the note when everything is copied you can perform a search by clicking on the points that you have in the upper left and clicking on ‘Search in the note’. You should look for the term batterycyclecount and the number that appears in the log will correspond to the cycles you have consumed on your iPhone, specifically the one located between the ‘<integer>’.
To know how to interpret it, you just have to know that this is the value of cycles that you have already consumed. As it approaches 500 cycles, you may notice a degradation in terms of autonomy.
Don’t get obsessed with this value
As we always say with everything related to the battery of the devices, you should never obsess over this value. It is quite common to do a periodic consultation and draw your own conclusions with this value. But the really important thing is to enjoy the devices without having to worry about this number of cycles consumed. If you charge responsibly, you can certainly have a very good long-term experience with your iPhone.
