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not too many of our articles get almost 12,000 shares because when it comes to the age-old question should I leave my phone plugged in overnight people care it's a good question should you leave your phone charged overnight and the short answer is yes now here's why first we have to understand the difference between lithium and nickel based batteries you're probably aware that the majority of today's tech runs on lithium ion batteries years ago batteries were primarily made of nickel like the Duracell and energizer batteries you buy in your dollar stores nickel based batters exhibit a tendency to have cyclic memory that means that if they weren't given full charges between cycles they might forget their full capacity and remember the point to which they were last charged as being their maximum charge capacity many of us have never had nickel based batteries on our mobile devices since the transition to lithium ion batteries occurred in the early 2000s fortunately lithium based batteries didn't suffer from the memory phenomenon often exhibited in nickel based batteries lithium batteries played a major part in the mobile revolution for one thing they're able to hold a lot more power while remaining fairly compact which allowed mobile phones to become increasingly small and thin also lithium ion batteries having much better lifespan and recharge fairly quickly the one caveat however is temperature sensitivity now we get to the most significant threat to your lithium ion or lithium polymer battery which is heat granted batteries dislike the cold just about as much as they dislike the heat but the latter is much more relevant when it comes to leaving your device plugged in overnight the charging temperature for lithium based batteries that means the temperature at which a battery is capable of receiving a charge is 32 to 113 Fahrenheit meanwhile lithium based batteries can discharge a temperature as low as -4 Fahrenheit fast charging technologies work best at warmer temperatures between 41 and 113 Fahrenheit with no charge capable of occurring when the temperature is lower than 32 Fahrenheit there's a couple important things to understand here first a lithium based battery can discharge at temperatures far below freezing so keeping them in your freezer won't prevent them from self charging though I don't recommend it second a lithium ion battery warms as it charges as it gets warmer it charges faster but since batteries can't hold more than its capacity after reaching a full charge the battery expands the excessive power by giving off its heat overnight charging becomes a problem when a battery has no way to reroute the incoming current after reaching its full capacity sounds kind of bad for your phone no well there is a solution to this problem our mobile devices have gotten a lot smarter over the years they can actually stop charging when the battery has reached its full capacity and begin using the connected charger as its primary power source allowing you to wake up to a fully charged battery while your phone remains powered through the night pretty sweet deal however it's not all pink clouds and fuzzy rabbits the charging habits you have can and will have an effect on the longevity of your battery if your goal is to really extend the life of your phone or your battery the best bet is to keep your charge between 10% and 90% not letting your phone fully drain to 0% or fully charged to 100% will extend the life of your battery it's not a danger but it would extend the life of your battery you guys remember from like 15 years ago when people were making money hand over fist in the dot-com bubble remember we didn't call it a dotnet bubble or dot-org bubble we didn't call them dot biz billionaires we called them dot-com billionaires because that's the power of a.com now why is that because no domain name extension tells your story with the same degree of trust as a dot-com or dotnet domain name.com and dotnet domain name extensions inject credibility into your online presence save 15% on domain names and web hosting when you use our coupon code Android at domain.com check out when you think domain names think domain.com