Saving your battery

[mcmxcii]

So with pokemon go being release I am finding that i go through my battery on my iPhone 6s Plus in a day. Before I could get away with only charging my phone once every 2-3 days. With now having to charge my phone daily and the increased rate in which my battery decreases the recharge cycles are going to be used up 2-3 time as fast with increase battery wear decreasing the lifespan of the phone.

 

My question is that if i buy a battery bank. If I used this while playing pokemon go. Then I won't be using the battery cycles of the phone instead just sitting on 100% charge. I don't know how phone batteries work in detail. My question is will that work or will it still be using recharge cycles, or will it just leech off the power bank?

 

[Mark77]

It will do a combination of both, but an external battery definitely will reduce the severity of cycling on your phone's internal Li-Ion battery.

 

Probably the most destructive thing for Li-Ion batteries is very deep discharges.  So the battery pack is a good thing.  The more you can keep the phone charged up the better.  Running it beneath 50% is far more damaging than just repeated cycles of 100% to 60%.