4 “You Shouldn’t Charge Your Battery Overnight”
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This is a common and persistent myth: that leaving your smartphone plugged in overnight will somehow overload and damage your battery. Fortunately that’s not the case. Manufacturers have designed the lithium ion batteries in your smartphones so that they know when they’ve been fully charged and will block or slowdown the incoming current. Otherwise you’d be replacing your batteries and smartphones much more frequently.