How to find out the battery quality of the phone

Battery health is a big issue – perhaps now more than ever, with the disaster of the entire iPhone slowing down. While this in itself doesn't necessarily have any effect on Android phones, keeping your device's battery healthy in mind isn't a bad idea at all.

The thing is that there is no easy or built-in way to check battery health on Android. It's a clear omission on Google's part, but luckily you can fill it with a third-party app. And although there are many options for doing this, we recently found an app called AccuBattery that does the job better than anything else we've tried.

Before we start using the app, let's clarify one thing: you will have to play the long game on this game. Since Android doesn't natively have a way to monitor battery health, any app used for this purpose will have to monitor your battery over days, weeks, and months before it can determine its health. While AccuBattery starts to get an idea of the health of your device's battery during two cycles of charging, the more you use it, the more accurately it is used.

First things first: go ahead and install AccuBattery.

Once launched, you'll have a quick tour of what it does and how it works. It's worth noting that this app does a bit more than just measure battery health, although that's what we're focusing on here.

During the mentioned instructions, you will come across a page that talks about battery health - it is important to pay attention here, since it is kind of the backbone of what we are talking about today.

The next page also allows you to set a slider that notifies you when your battery reaches this percentage. The default setting is 80 percent, which is a universally accepted type as the best place to keep your battery charged for health and longevity. But you can make the call that works best for you here; for example, I left my account 100 percent because I use Android Auto and I'm tired of it and it constantly alarms when I can't disconnect it without automatic disconnect.

Finally, AccuBattery works through a very fast calibration and detects the battery capacity of your device's inventory.

And with that, you're in!

Note: Free and Pro versions ($3.99) of AccuBattery are available, but you won't need the premium version to monitor battery health. However, if you enjoy this feature, I encourage you to purchase the premium version and support the development of this excellent app. The premium version removes ads and also allows you to open an overlay to scan battery and CPU statistics on top of other apps.

From here, just use your device as usual. Charge when you normally do, and use it when you normally do. Just, you know, do what you always do. Over time, AccuBattery tracks charge and discharge cycles, and then uses this information to monitor battery health.

To look at this information, click on the "Health" option at the bottom. Initially, only blanks appear here. This is because it does not have any information to get out of yet. Since Android does not provide historical battery information for apps, the foundation should start from scratch.

But there's more here too. Over time, AccuBattery tracks battery wear and total capacity. Again, these numbers multiply over time, and the more you use the phone, the better.

There is also a small note that tells you about the battery capacity, but you can refuse this if you want to.

While your phone is charging and discharging, keep checking this screen to learn more about your phone's battery health. After a few weeks on the Pixel 2 XL, it looks like this:

After the first two or three charges, the health status showed about 95 percent, but over time, I adjusted my charging practices (I only charge the phone every two nights now, especially if I spend a lot of time in the car connected to Android Auto), the overall capacity improved to 97 percent.