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I just migrated an iPhone5 to an X. I'd like to put the iPhone5 into very long-term (probably 1+ year) storage. While I'll hopefully never need it again, I'd like to keep a back-up iPhone at the ready.
Given the chemistry of iPhone batteries, before putting it in a safe place for a very long time, should I drain the battery to 0%? or 100% charge, and power-off?
It is fresh off of a factory reset, so there is no data to be lost on the phone.
It's likely that you are running something in the background (such as Skype) which is triggering your dedicated graphics card, despite it not actually doing anything graphically intensive. This is a known issue in Apple's graphics card switching technology.
Download and run gfxCardStatus and see if I'm right. If so, close the problematic program or use gfxCardStatus to manually switch to the much lower-powered integrated chip. You should get longer battery life after that; I haven't directly measured it but I know I get at least 30 minutes to an hour of extra life.
And of course it also depends on what you're doing with your computer, what background programs are running, the brightness of your screen, etc.
You probably have one of the following enabled that could explain the power drain.
Power Nap or Wake on WiFi, disable them,
or read the small print that says what it will do in sleep :)
Also as said earlier, open the Console and type "Wake" in the search window of the Console.
Now look who and what is waking it up and what is it for what reason and what is it doing about it.
As for your question why is it consuming more power, well you added more lights to the Christmas tree.
For example when HDD sleeps it does not consumes any power. The cussing SSD does consume power since it reshuffle it self from time to time, that is normal for SSD to refresh its memory cells.
UPDATE:
according to apple, you computer does not support the Power Nap mode settings thus enable/disable activity during the sleep.
So back to the Console reports:
Type "Wake" and look what is waking it up or keeping it awake based on time stamps.
Going on a limb, I would say it is your Trim support for the SSD, that you will find in the Console.
The TRIM command is an important disk command for SSDs that keeps your flash memory appropriately cycled so that you can achieve faster read and write speeds, as well as a longer lifespan for your SSD.
Best Answer
When it comes to Apple products and batteries I recommend users refer to what Apple has to say about its batteries.
However, to answer your question, I quote directly from Apple: