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Wired Vs. Wireless Charging: Which Is Better For Battery Health?

And does it matter if your phone heats up?

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Does wireless charging deplete battery health? Does it matter that your smartphone feels warm while charging? The short answer to both is yes, but for most people, the optimal balance between convenience and better battery life is to use wireless charging for battery top-ups during the day and leave wired charging for overnight power-ups.

What happens when you use wireless charging?

When you charge up your smartphone using a cable and power adapter, energy flows from the source through the adapter straight to your phone.

Wireless charging takes more steps to do the same thing. It uses an electromagnetic induction field to send power into the phone. The charging pad pushes electricity around an internal wire coil that magnetically passes energy across to a similar coil inside your phone. So, when you use a wireless charger, the energy flows...

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