Your Phone’s 100% Is a Lie

You’re not supposed to know this. Your phone doesn’t actually stop charging at 100%,

and that’s intentional. What you see on the screen isn’t real battery capacity—it’s a calculated illusion

designed to protect the battery from damage. Lithium batteries wear out faster

when they stay fully charged, so your phone quietly slows the charge without ever telling

you. That’s why the last one percent can take longer than the first twenty,

sometimes longer than you expect. At that point, it’s not really charging anymore—it’s

carefully holding back to protect itself. One hundred percent doesn’t mean full,

it means safe. So if this number isn’t completely real, what else do you