New Delhi, Nov. 17 -- For most of us, charging a phone is muscle memory. You plug it in at night, wake up to 100 percent and move on. Somewhere along the way, that very normal habit turned into a question: "Am I slowly killing my battery by doing this every day?"

Social media has been full of warnings about full charges and "overloading" phones. You see videos insisting you should never go beyond 80 percent, threads blaming 100 percent charging for every battery problem and people proudly showing how they keep their phones in a very specific range at all times. It sounds scientific on the surface, but the truth is far less dramatic than the internet makes it sound.

So what is actually true in 2025? Is a full charge really bad, or just a...