iPhone Charger Question
I have a friend who has an iPhone with a really crummy battery. He says this is because he has used his iPad charger to charge his iPhone.
So first question: is this possible?
I have loaned him my iPhone charger since his old one doesn't work anymore.
Second question: can his iPhone mess up my charger?
Posted Jun 26, 2014, 8:32 AM UTC
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Assuming your friend is using an official Apple charger-brick... AND there isn't anything physically wrong with it... then no, it's not really possible.
I don't think I've ever seen that happen.. but I suppose it's possible. If the charging-port has some connectors physically broken/cross-linked,etc in it.. then I guess yeah.. it could short-circuit the charger.
I'd be more inclined to think your friends iPhone simply has an old/failing battery.
Okey, thanks for the answer.
Getting a bit nervous about it. Don't want it do mess up my phone since it's kind of new, half a year old iPhone 5s. His is a one and a half year old iPhone 5 so maybe it's like you say, that his battery is just failing on it's own.
The iPhone 5 battery is known to have issues - its likely related to the software, though. For example, the phone does at a random percentage.
If your friend hasn't already, he can look into battery saving techniques, like dimming the brightness and turning off the parallax.