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Originally Posted by DoubleF
3-4% more per year is still a bit. I'm at 88% max capacity left and my phone is 18 months old. My wife is probably at around 8-12 hours of battery life now depending on usage. I think she's below 80% max. Her phone is frequently at single digits by the time she returns from work and occasionally is completely dead mid commute. She also had her battery replaced once.
Then there's the additional issue for the battery consumption of a few hours a day going from iOS 18 to 26. My wife hasn't even upgraded to iOS 26 yet and she's borderline for getting through the day for the battery life. I think she just reached 3 years for her phone.
It's also less about "I cannot afford this." and "I prefer not to blow money this way." I'm certain we could buy more than a dozen iPhones without severe financial hardship, but it just seems like something inconvenient. People would also rather spend like $100+ on random chargers and cables vs $150-200 on the battery replacement if a full blown phone is out of the cards. Setting max charge lower, you don't have to do anything too different. I turn max charge back to 100% when I travel. It's unintrusive.
I might just buy her one of the newer ones for Christmas though. I'm sick and tired of her running off with my phone because mine does a better job than hers for taking pics/videos/isn't completely dead etc.
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Just seems to me an inconvenience for little benefit. Also I don't know many people who hold on to phones for three years these days. Maybe I just keep the company of mindless consumerists, but that seems longer than average.