How to check your iPhone battery cycle count the super easy way

posted by Daniel P. / Jun 08, 2016, 7:30 AM

How to check your iPhone battery cycle count the super easy way

Previously, checking how many cycles you have gone through on your iPhone's sealed battery involved either jailbreaking, or installing a computer program to display the cycle count. There will be a tidal wave of upgrades to the iPhone 7 this year, tip analysts, as there have never been so many iPhones that are two years or older than we will have in September, and a bunch of the oldies will hit the used phones market.

Thus, knowing how much cycles are left in the battery of the second hand iPhone you are already salivating over, becomes one of the crucial tests to run before you purchase. The good quality lithium batteries, of the type that is in iPhones, last about 500 cycles in ideal circumstances (full top up, stock charger, no overheating), before starting to degrade. Given that most owners charge their iPhone almost every day, a two-year old one may just be on the cusp, so checking the number of charging cycles it has been through quickly before you buy it will come in handy. Here's what you need to do:

1. Download Battery Percentage off the App Store;

2. Start the app, and check the charge cycles that the iPhone or iPad has been through already;

3. The Battery Percentage app will show other vital information about the juicer, like the battery health level (or degradation level) in percentages, as well as its charge level status. That's all - no jailbreaking, no hooking up to a computer to check the battery cycles.

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17 Comments

1. legiloca

Posts: 1676; Member since: Nov 11, 2014

I'M DIGGING THIS! DOWNLOADING!!

posted on Jun 08, 2016, 7:32 AM 0

2. techietech

Posts: 29; Member since: Jan 24, 2016

Good app. But not accurate.

posted on Jun 08, 2016, 7:33 AM 0

8. davidlynn

Posts: 4; Member since: Jun 08, 2016

How do you know it's not accurate?

posted on Jun 08, 2016, 3:43 PM 2

12. techietech

Been using it since last week. I've seen inconsistencies with the cycles.

posted on Jun 09, 2016, 3:03 AM 0

3. nithyakr

Posts: 161; Member since: Jun 20, 2014

Why does it need to access my Photos? curious!

posted on Jun 08, 2016, 7:55 AM 0

4. Ahovking

Posts: 711; Member since: Feb 03, 2015

They ask permission to access your photos library to provide you with information like how much space you have lift for pictures and videos and how much space you have already used up. I just said No.

posted on Jun 08, 2016, 8:11 AM 1

7. promise7

Posts: 894; Member since: Jul 03, 2013

Photos storage space. Give it access and it'll tell you how many photos and how much space they're taking up. Turn it off and it just says 0.

posted on Jun 08, 2016, 10:42 AM 1

11. AlikMalix unregistered

You can just choose "do not allow" for that particular access. If you change your mind you can always "allow" it later..

posted on Jun 09, 2016, 2:17 AM 0

5. RajRicardo

Posts: 496; Member since: Feb 28, 2014

Any similar android app?

posted on Jun 08, 2016, 8:20 AM 2

10. Pitrich

Posts: 239; Member since: Apr 13, 2016

Asking that same question

posted on Jun 09, 2016, 1:55 AM 0

6. ibend

Posts: 6747; Member since: Sep 30, 2014

500 cycles on i6s battery is less than 1 year.. right?

posted on Jun 08, 2016, 9:31 AM 0

9. mariosraptor

Posts: 178; Member since: Mar 15, 2012

Nope. If you do1 charging a day in one year you'll have 365 cycles. So you do more than 1 a day. I have 158

posted on Jun 08, 2016, 4:13 PM 0

13. AceNJ

Posts: 26; Member since: Sep 29, 2015

did this app get pulled? not seeing it

posted on Jun 09, 2016, 3:45 AM 0

14. TerrellAmerica unregistered

The jerks at Apple probably pulled it because I don't see it either, Apple pulls anything that they didn't think of or thats helpful to the user.

posted on Jun 09, 2016, 5:42 PM 0

15. TerrellAmerica unregistered

It not available in the USA

posted on Jun 09, 2016, 5:46 PM 0

16. johnfbraun

Posts: 2; Member since: Jun 12, 2016

A friend retweeted an article that referenced this article, and I downloaded and installed the app on both my iPhone 6s and iPad Air. It seemed to work at first, but I then, within a day, wasn't able to charge either of my devices, and upon shutting down the device (in hopes that it was a temporary bug and a power cycle would fix it) now find that neither device will start up properly. So, I think the app was pulled for either being badly written, or malware, or both.

posted on Jun 12, 2016, 1:36 PM 0

17. johnfbraun

As it turns out, the cause of my damage was a crappy MOTA charger Plus, if you now search for the app, you'll now find it in the App Store. I'd post links but this system seems to not want n00bs to do so.