Is it dangerous to leave your smartphone to charge at night?
You put your phone on charge before going to bed at night, and by morning the battery is one hundred percent full and ready to go. Zora?
Not always
The thing is, most of the time we use one phone for a year or two and then get a new one. During this period, the user does not have time to notice a decrease in battery capacity. If you, too, haven’t used a single smartphone in years, you can put it to sleep at night to charge it.
In addition, frequent charging has a negative effect on lithium-ion batteries. The main factor in this is not the battery itself overcharging, but frequent charging.
Edo Campos, a spokesman for Anker, a manufacturer of charging equipment for phones, said the batteries would not receive excess current once they were full.
In fact, smartphones are smart devices. They know when to stop charging.
Edo Campos
Modern models are equipped with special chips that protect the battery from overcharging. Therefore, there is not much damage caused by putting your smartphone on a nightly charge through a charger that comes in its own kit or is fully compatible with it.
But the thing is different: the charging process itself can negatively affect the smartphone battery.
So why now?
Most phones have a pre-installed technology - the ability to quickly recharge the battery. According to Hatem Zeyne, founder, chief researcher and technical director of Ossia in the field of wireless charging, this technology will allow the devices to adapt to the power of the charging equipment.
Electric current arrives at the battery in a modular form, which increases the rate of polarity movement of lithium ions and speeds up charging. However, this process results in faster wear of lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries.
By charging your smartphone at an enhanced speed, you reduce battery life.
Hatem Zeyne
Is there a solution?
If you want your lithium-ion battery to last longer, then use a charger designed for a less powerful gadget, Zeyne says. But even this does not guarantee that your battery life will be extended.
For example, if we charge the iPad Pro using the iPhone charger, its battery will charge very long. Engineers point out that this is exactly how - slow charging prolongs battery life.
Hatem Zeyne
If you want the battery to last a long time - do not let your smartphone overheat. After all, high temperatures cause lithium-ion batteries to wear out quickly. Apple's website also said that temperatures above 35 ° C "can cause damage to the battery."
How do we support it?
Zeyne and Campos point out that in today’s environment where the demand for new smartphones is increasing, charging them at night will not have a significant negative impact.
On top of that, according to surveys, the majority of users will replace their phones within two years. During this time, I do not notice any signs of wear on most batteries.
Therefore, you can easily leave your beloved device to charge even at night.
However, in recent times, we often come across reports that batteries overheat, burn and even explode for various reasons. We also recommend that you read our article (https://t.me/itspecuz/1554) on the prevention and prevention of such cases.
