Is Your Dock Ruining Your Switches Battery Life?

[CrimsonRiot]

Meanwhile my DS still working after 10years of me losing the charger

[Arbiedrives]

USB c stops charging when it’s at max health to preserve the battery health

[Cal_inkman]

I'm calling the new switch
"The Super Switch 2000"😅

[Jo_Gameplays]

oh, thats actually kind of sick. i mean, its not rocket science to make it so it does that but its still pretty cool. if nintendo was lazy, then im pretty sure they wouldnt add this "feature". idonno if you need any type of coding in order to have this feature, or if its just built in to the motherboard in the dock itself.

[SuperMannyMTB]

I was genuinely wondering this the other day as I don’t use my Switch OLED all that much. So it stays docked most of the time. I am glad that I now know!

[PinoyGamingTribe]

but when down again into 99 % percent it will start charging again and thats how the battery damage for charging over and over

[allesdurchprobiert]

Thanks ❤
I wished every laptop manufacturer would finally do this by default!

[halami]

It would be better if the state of charge wasn’t so high when docked. A lot of people are primarily docked, so the 95-100% trickle charging it does isn’t very helpful. It would be better if they did some sort of 80% limit, or an option to, so it can preserve battery health. Sure it’s pretty easy to replace the battery, but what if you just… didn’t have to? The battery theoretically could last like 10+ years before it starts expanding or something if it’s taken care of properly

[johnnyp]

They been doin that since 3DS times even DS times I’m pretty sure bc the charging light disappears when it’s fully charged

[Izukichi_]

My switch life definitely dying and in constant life support

[triledink]

My switch's battery actually goes down in battery when playing more graphically intensive games when docked.

I could have it docked playing zelda and if I check the battery an hour in, its not at 100% anymore.

[soulsmwc]

On dock power does not bypass battery. Only way is to limit charge. L4t switch root has this

[JN-R]

it is impossible to keep it at 100 percent all the time without charging. It will eventually decrease to a 99 percent even if the battery is not in use. so the dock continiously trickle charge the switch for the battery level not to drop which is not really bad for the battery versus discharging-recharging which uses the charge cycle more, but it is much better if Nintendo gave users the option to charge the battery only upto a specific level (ex. 60%, 70%, 80%) before being bypassed. it is more useful for us "dock" users and better for the battery in the long run than keeping the battery at 100 all the time.

[joelpettersson]

I love the switch. Just give me this exact same thing again but with more technical power and ill happily buy a switch 2.

[frankrodriguez]

I don't have to worry about that I only take out the Switch when I want to sit outside and get some fresh air after I finish reading or if I'm going somewhere that's going to requiring a long car ride otherwise I don't take my switch out of the docking station just to move it around my house so I can say I can play on the couch instead of playing it in my bedroom.

[KawaiiCat]

Works for switch lite as well. I have it plugged in sometimes and forget but it disconnects when it reaches 100

[nyotendo]

neat, i always wondered about this. thanks!

[qayyumchariff]

Not charging your your battery till 100% actually extend your battery life, charging it till full repeatedly can damage the cell,

[awolfblood]

PSA: While the switch may stop charging, somehow power is still getting to it. I left my switch on the dock for a couple days at college and when I went to play it again, it no longer worked. Took it to GameStop, they sent me to a tech store, where he found that the problem was that the battery could no longer take on power because it had been charging for so long. It would have been $300 to get it fixed and mine was out of warranty. Do not leave your switch on the dock. Take it off the dock and set it next to the dock even if you don’t intend to play.

[pbsandwitch]

But what happens when it’s running off of its own source but goes down to 99 then charging to 100 then stop charging? That’s gotta be bad for the battery