{"id":53281,"date":"2026-09-22T16:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=53281"},"modified":"2026-09-22T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:36:27","slug":"prepare-to-ship-battery-drain-and-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/22\/prepare-to-ship-battery-drain-and-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Prepare to Ship&rdquo; Battery Drain and Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/09\/18\/iphone-18-pro-max-shipping-restriction\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/09\/18\/iphone-18-pro-max-shipping-restriction\/\">\n<p>The iPhone 18 Pro Max has a battery capacity over 20 watt-hours, which means there are additional shipping requirements. If an  iPhone 18 Pro  Max needs to be shipped somewhere, its maximum battery capacity has to be limited through firmware.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Customers who need to ship the  iPhone 18 Pro  Max for repair, trade-in, or other purposes have to use a new Prepare to Ship feature. Prepare to Ship discharges the battery to below 20Wh and sets a charge limit so the iPhone stays below the threshold during the shipping process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Laptops, of course, have larger batteries, but they aren&rsquo;t affected because each cell is below the limit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: The iPhone 18 Pro Max has a battery capacity over 20 watt-hours, which means there are additional shipping requirements. If an iPhone 18 Pro Max needs to be shipped somewhere, its maximum battery capacity has to be limited through firmware. [&#8230;] Customers who need to ship the iPhone 18 Pro Max for repair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-09-22T20:36:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"366d1be2-9dfb-4b90-9857-10fafbd55054","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-09-22T20:36:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ANm0b4p37S5CYVxD6-9VQVA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,31,2887,2964,209],"class_list":["post-53281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-batterylife","tag-ios","tag-ios-27","tag-iphone-18-pro-max","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53282,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53281\/revisions\/53282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}