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Technology
Tom Pritchard

Does charging overnight damage your phone battery? 3 features that stop it happening

How to check iphone battery health.

The battery is easily one of the most important parts of your phone, but aside from a broken screen, it's also the one thing most likely to cause problems in the long term. Lithium-ion batteries can be fussy, and you need to know how to be able to take care of them if you plan on keeping your phone going for as long as possible. Even if you picked up something from the top of our best phone battery life page.

One of the things you're often told is that you shouldn't keep your phone plugged in or left at 100% charge for extended periods of time. And considering the majority of us will plug in our phones to recharge while we sleep, isn't that going to cause problems? Maybe in the past, but these days phones have all sorts of features and protections to ensure overnight charging isn't going to wreck your battery.

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