My wife’s phone dies every. single. day. and I don’t know why she doesn’t just charge it at night.
I’m just wondering how people live like this 😅
Like, you went through your day exhausted and want to finally make a decision to go to bed for yourself, but no you have to remember to connect the USB cable.
Get her a wireless charger stand.
I just fall asleep while watching a yt video of something and the phone is still in my hand.
I genuinely don’t understand how this works for so many people. When i watch something, I watch it and wont sleep until i make the concious decision to stop paying attention and close my eyes. Same with books or anything really. Maybe music works
ehhhhh, its a heavy sleeper thing for me I think. I usually don’t make the conscious decision of falling asleep, I just lay in bed until I just pass out. My brain just gives up and disconnects. I’m a heavy sleeper, and I need like 30 minutes minimum between opening my eyes in the morning and actually getting out of bed.
I’m also watching streaming services too and it happens a lot to me that I’m watching a series in bed, I fall sleep, and wake up to realize I watched many chapters of the series so I gotta watch them again later, this time for real.
Depends on the subject and how much interested you put in it. If the video is just random dumb shit with music, then you fall asleep. If it is a nice interesting movie you may stay awake. Even so, if the movie is boring, you may fall asleep.
I WISH I could make the conscious decision to sleep. How does THAT work?
Thats not how I meant it. The concious decision to stop engaging with stuff and close my eyes. No human can just decide to sleep and pass out.
Yeah yeah someone’s gonna akshewally me but nah.
I work a desk job with an outlet right there, The nearest outlet to my bed is on the other side of the room and I ain’t ain’t getting out of bed for my 3am memes.
You just described my entire life. We’re probably best friends now.
Fire hazard.
I charge it at work while I’m (mostly) conscious. xD
when i see people’s phones constantly at, like, 12%, it drives me crazy.
Haha it’s always funny with screenshots posted on social media, like 4% I’m sweating 😅
I got a Oneplus that charges at 65w so I don’t have to leave it plugged in overnight. I just charge it 15min while shaving or whatever.
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I feel this pain. Wife’s battery-powered devices are always in a constant state of dying. Something has convinced her that it’s better to let the battery almost! die, then charge it to full, but not leave it plugged in because that will degrade the battery; meaning it never gets charged overnight. I’m sure there’s a small kernel of truth in where she learned that, but it’s almost a joke at this point when she goes scrambling for her charger when using her phone, tablet, etc. It’s painful, but also adorable? I guess. Anyway, it’s not a hill I’m willing to die on, so I just let it be and laugh almost everytime it happens.
She needn’t worry about manually optimizing battery wear, and, in fact, the most harmful thing you can do to a battery is to fully deplete it frequently.
Educate her about the built-in feature of optimized battery charging. iPhones and some Androids have it.
Something has convinced her that it’s better to let the battery almost! die, then charge it to full, but not leave it plugged in because that will degrade the battery
That was true a long time ago when NiCad batteries were around. But, since they had the problems you described, they’re not around any more, and phones generally all use lithium-ion batteries which don’t have this issue.
Haha right? It’s not worth it! But yeah, I feel like it’s just a stressful way to live when the other option is to just grab a cord and plug in before falling asleep…
Oh I know for sure. I’ve told her it’s perfectly fine to do before; even offered to replace the battery if it degrades faster, but she won’t budge. It’s not worth making a big deal out of, so I just let it be
I think that was true like… 10+ years ago, but battery and power management tech have advanced so that’s no longer necessesary. I think running full cycles on your battery is actually bad for it now, I set mine to stop charging when it hits 85% to preserve battery health.
Sounds stressful constantly worrying about battery life, plopping it on a wireless charger before bed is the way to go.
I would love if iOS had a “stop charging at 85% option” like that. What I currently do is a shortcut routine with a wireless charger connected to a smart plug that turns off the plug when the phone reaches 85%. It works, but I would love to be able to have it work without a smart plug routine.
I charge it during the day at work.
Boss makes a dollar I make a dime…
… that’s why I charge on company time
My partner and I both have wireless chargers so we essentially start charging at the same time every night. He has a nicer phone than me even. However he also has Twitter Instagram Facebook etc etc etc on his phone so it lasts about half the time mine does with none of that garbage.
Keeping Lithium-ion batteries at 100% charge will reduce their lifespan. They want to live in the 40-80% range. I use an app that notifies me when my phone has charged to 80%, so that I can unplug it. It may be overkill, but I plan to use this phone for 9 more years or so.
Both iphone and androids have an OS option to stop charging at 85 though - I keep it on all the time unless I’m going to need that extra bit of juice
Me too. Samsung has a feature to “protect battery life”, so it only charges until 85%. You can keep it on power, but it won’t surpass 85%.
I charge my phone at work …
Some people are just extremely lazy. I used to be the same, but I decided to spend a few dollars on a wireless charging stand that I can just throw my phone onto while I’m dozing off.
I don’t know you married one, ask her and let us know?
Oh I have, I’ve heard every excuse haha, mostly just that she doesn’t think of it? Seems weird to me
Same thing with my girlfriend. I even got a charger and a cable just for her exclusive use but she keeps unplugging my phone because “it has more charge than mine”. Which, fair, but like??? It didn’t have to be this way??
