How to set iPhone battery charge limit with a shortcut

Find out how to quickly change the maximum battery charge limit right from your Home Screen by using a simple iPhone shortcut.

Setting your iPhone’s charge limit to 80% or a number less than 100% can help increase its longevity by ensuring the battery does not sit at full charge for long.

While it’s easy to set it in Settings > Battery > Charging, it takes about 4 taps, and you may not be able to do it frequently (not that you need to).

But to simplify things, iOS 26.4 lets you create shortcuts that can change the battery limit. And if you want, you can also add it to the Home Screen for one-touch activation. Of course, you can also ask Siri or use one of these 19 ways to run the shortcut quickly.

Battery charge limit shortcut on iPhone

1) Update your iPhone to iOS 26.4 or later.

2) Open the Shortcuts app, tap the plus button to create a new shortcut, search for Set Battery Charge Limit, and add it to your build.

3) The default is 80%. Tap to change it to 85%, 90%, 95%, or 100%. You can also tap Variables and then select Ask Each Time to get an option to choose the percentage level every time you run this shortcut.

4) Next, tap the arrow icon and choose to set this new battery charge limit only until tomorrow. In Apple’s words, “When enabled, the battery charge limit will be reset to its previous value on the following day.” If you keep it off, the new battery charge limit will be set permanently, until you change it.

5) With the shortcut built, tap its name at the top and select Add to Home Screen.

6) Now, rename it to something simpler, pick an icon and color, and tap Add.

You’ll now have a shortcut to change the charge limit on your iPhone Home Screen. Tap it to set the maximum battery charge limit.

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