You're charging your phone all wrong: 6 common myths, debunked

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Charging to 100% stresses your battery, as most cap at 80%. Certification matters more than brand when picking a charger. Draining to 0% doesn't 'calibrate' a lithium-ion battery. Not a week goes by that I'm not correcting someone who is still recycling some battery myth packaged as a "tip" from the nickel-cadmium era (also known as the 1990s). These tips have been repeated and regurgitated so many times. A quick Google search (or an AI prompt) turns up plenty of articles that reassure readers that the tips are 100% grounded in present-day, lithium-ion era reality, when they most definitely are not. I've picked six charging habits that people ask about…