Products like the last 3 generations of iPod Touches, iPads, and Apple Watch are particularly susceptible to Death By Battery Bloat (DBBB or DB^3). For the slimmest and glued together recent products the most common cause of Apple Product Death for me has been battery bloat. You are basically renting these products for an indeterminate, but very finite, period of time after which time it will die in one way or another. Not picking on Apple, okay maybe a little, but you really cannot think of any Apple device that has a non-user-replaceable battery as a durable product that you actually own and can pass down to your kids or donate to charity. Once your Apple product gets assigned to the end-of-life list you are on your own and Apple will gladly recycle the dead, bloated hulk of your formerly treasured Apple device - at no charge. If your Apple device battery dies while the product is still being supported, you may be able to get the device repaired or replaced for the standard battery replacement charge. If you're lucky and the battery in your Apple device happens to die while under Apple Care, possibly by bloating up and destroying the device in the process, you are golden. It's not a question of whether it will die, but only a question of when it will die, and where you are in the warranty and/or product support lifespan for the product. The real term for this, and for every Apple product that has a non-user-replaceable battery, and especially those products with lithium-ion batteries, should be "Battery Death Management." There is nothing that you can do to prevent the eventual death of your battery-powered Apple device. "Battery Health Management" is a bit of a misnomer.
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