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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm unhappy with the answers because they just parrot the first comment and provide little evidence.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Which only states that wireless charging will wear out your battery faster than wired. Not that it's critically damaging the instant you opt to use it, or that it will shorten the lifespan of a device to nothing.

There is a difference, that's straight up true. One method has the battery sitting at a temperature that is worse for the chemistry involved. That is indisputable. Super fast fast charging that only slows down to keep an already hot battery from becoming dangerous, essentially redlining it for the whole process, has the exact same downsides in terms of thermals, except that wireless charging, being inherently slower for equivalent temperatures, keeps the battery warm for longer.

What exactly the difference ends up being, varies from application to application, and from device to device. Obviously, if you lower the charge speed of wireless until it doesn't heat the battery any more than wired, there wont be a difference, but then you could just do the same for wired charging, and have the battery last even more cycles.

Bottom line, whatever option runs the battery the coolest on a given device, WILL CAUSE THE LEAST WEAR. That's simply true.