Apple says iPhones are designed to retain 80% of their original battery capacity after 500 charge cycles. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been an easy way to view your iPhone’s cycle count — until now. In this article, I’ll show you how to check the battery cycle count on your iPhone!
➡️ Click the link to download our Siri Shortcut and check your iPhone’s battery cycle count.
How To Check Your iPhone Battery Cycle Count
First, download our Battery Stats Shortcut. Then, open Settings on your iPhone and tap Privacy & Security -> Analytics & Improvements -> Analytics Data.
Open an iPhone analytics file. These files start with “Analytics” followed by a date.
Tap the Share button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, then tap Battery Stats in the share sheet. The Shortcut will run and show you your iPhone’s original maximum capacity, current maximum capacity, and cycle count.
Note: Your iPhone won’t save analytics files if you’ve turned off Share iPhone Analytics.
What Do These Stats Mean?
MaximumFCC is your iPhone’s original charge capacity in milliamp hours (mAh). Apple doesn’t publish battery capacity specifications on their website, and MaximumFCC varies from iPhone to iPhone. The only way to find your iPhone’s original maximum capacity is in iPhone Analytics.
Nominal Charge Capacity is your iPhone’s current maximum battery capacity. Unless your iPhone is fresh out of the box, this number will be lower than the MaximumFCC. As you use your iPhone and put it through charge cycles, its maximum capacity drops.
Cycle Count is the number of charge cycles your iPhone has been through. There’s some misconceptions about what a charge cycle actually is. One charge cycle is any time you discharge your iPhone a total of 100%. It could be 100% to 0%, but more often, it’s something like this:
- You use your iPhone during the day, and the battery percentage drops from 80% to 30%.
- You charge your iPhone back up to 100% overnight.
- You use your iPhone over the course of the day and the battery life drops 50%.
That’s one complete charge cycle. We talk charge cycles (and much more) in our YouTube video about iPhone Battery Health.
The Battery Capacity number displayed at the bottom of the Battery Stats pop-up is your iPhone’s real battery capacity. It’s probably different than the one you’ll see in Settings -> Battery -> Battery Health & Charging.
Apple calculates the Maximum Capacity percentage in Settings by comparing your iPhone’s Nominal Charge Capacity to the standard charge capacity of your iPhone model. Apple sets that standard charge capacity lower than MaximumFCC of most iPhones they ship. This allows most iPhones to remain at “100% Maximum Capacity” even after they’ve been through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of charge cycles.
I Spy My Cycle Count
We hope this handy shortcut helped you figure out how many charge cycles your iPhone has been through. If you found it helpful, please share this article and our shortcut with friends and family on social media.
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Tip: if it doesnt work, try sharing the previous day’s analytics instead of the current day.
Cycle count don’t increase even after weeks of use.
How does one check battery health on earlier iPadOS or iOS.
For OS 12 or 13 or 14
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Your shortcut is great for newer os’s .
Thank you.
Hi, this doesn’t seem to be working under iOS 16.3.1 (I have Analytics enabled since day 1).
I had the same issue
I installed the shortcut on my iPhone 11 (3yrs old) and on a new iPad 10.2”version 9. Both are running the most current iOS. On my first battery check my phone showed original 3297mAh and current state at 3206mAh and a total of 33 charge cycles with battery at 97.24%. My new iPad showed original 9028mAh and 8557mAh for the current state with only 2 full charges and with the battery at 94.78% of original capacity. I am assuming that the shortcut is simply pulling data from analytics reports but I am suspicious of the number of full charge cycles… Read more »
Doesn’t work on iPhone 13 pro max running 15.7
I can confirm it works great on iPhone 14 Pro Max 16.2 👍🏼 providing that there’s an “Analytics” file in the log containing battery entries, the shortcut should work 👍🏼
It worked! Thanks so much! Finally!!!!!!!
Not showing battery stats after Tapping the Share button.
Every time I go to Analytics Data and share an Analytics- file with the shortcut, I get a notification saying “there was a problem running the shortcut “Battery Stats.” Can you help me?
Doesn’t work on iPhone 14 pro max with ios 16.2