Battery endurance in cycles
How many full charge-and-discharge cycles the battery lasted before it could hold only 80 % of its rated capacity, rounded down to the hundred.
- What it looks like on the label
- A battery with a circular arrow, and a number of cycles such as ≥ 800 or ≥ 1000.
- Printed on
- Phone or tablet
- Unit
- cycles, printed as ≥ 800, ≥ 900 … ≥ 1400
- Regulation
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1669, Annex III
What the regulation says
On a phone or tablet label
- What the number measures
- Charge/discharge cycles until usable capacity reaches 80 % of rated capacity.
- Unit
- cycles, printed as ≥ 800, ≥ 900 … ≥ 1400
- Test condition
- the device’s own default charging algorithm; result rounded down to full hundreds and stated in the ranges ≥ 800 to ≥ 1400.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1669, Annex III, point 1 (IX); test in Annex IV, point 2: battery endurance in cycles, in cycles, in accordance with Annex IV, point 2;
Checked 2026-09-25.
Other icons on the phone or tablet label
QR code (top left of the label)On 8 product labelsEnergy efficiency class arrow (A to G)On 7 product labelsBattery endurance per cycle (phones and tablets)Phone or tabletRepeated free fall reliability classPhone or tabletRepairability classPhone or tabletIP rating on a phone or tablet labelPhone or tablet
Sources
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1669 — Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1669 of 16 June 2023 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 with regard to the energy labelling of smartphones and slate tablets. Label content: Annex III. Article 8: “It shall apply from 20 June 2025.” Checked 2026-09-25.
Read in the Official Journal text on the date shown. Our drawing is not the official pictogram; the regulation’s own label figure is the authority.