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MacBook battery cycles: what the number can and cannot tell you

Apple documents how charge cycles accumulate and where to find the cycle count. Practical takeaway: use the model-specific information to understand battery wear, rather than treating the number of charging sessions as a lifetime forecast. AI-assisted original summary checked against Apple’s support page.