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HP Business Notebook PCs - HP Battery Health Manager

HP Battery Health Manager is a BIOS-level setting available in most HP business notebooks. It is designed to help optimize battery life by mitigating the exposure of the notebook battery to key factors, such as high state-of-charge, that can accelerate battery swelling and chemical aging over time.

To learn more about mitigating battery swelling, see Mitigating battery swelling with HP Battery Health Manager (in English).

To learn more about the benefits of lithium-ion batteries, how they chemically age, and the factors that can accelerate battery swelling, go to HP Notebook PCs - Lithium-ion batteries.

To learn more about battery swelling and what to do if your battery is showing signs of swelling, go to HP Notebook PCs - Swelling or deformation of notebook battery.

Install HP Battery Health Manager

HP Battery Health Manager was released in 2018 and is available on all HP business notebooks released in 2016 or later.

If HP Battery Health Manager is not available in your computer BIOS (F10 > Advanced > Power Management Options), update the BIOS to the minimum requirement for your device. To identify the minimum BIOS version that contains HP Battery Health Manager, go to HP Introduces HP Battery Health Manager.

Select the optimal setting

HP recommends that customers enable HP Battery Health Manager and select either the Let HP Manage My Battery Charging or Maximize My Battery Health setting based on usage patterns and the age of the computer.

Let HP Manage My Battery Charging setting

The Let HP Manage My Battery Charging setting dynamically changes how the system charges the battery based on the age of the battery and usage over time.

Note:

On some devices, this setting might be called Let HP Manage My Battery.

Use this setting in the following situations:

  • Mixed-use environments where the notebook is regularly removed from AC power and the battery is allowed to discharge.

  • Prefer a single process for your organization.

  • The notebook is less than a year old.

Note:

Turn on the HP Intelligent Charging setting to use a learning algorithm to dynamically adjust your battery charging settings.

HP Intelligent Charging (G9 models or later)

The Let HP Manage My Battery Charging setting features HP Intelligent Charging (available on G9 models or later), which dynamically adjusts the charge capacity of your notebook based on how you use your device.

HP Intelligent Charging can detect when you are continuously connected to AC power, as well as learn when you are active or inactive on your device. Based on these usage patterns, HP Intelligent Charging makes sure that your device is not in a high state-of-charge when inactive, but is fully charged for active periods.

Maximize My Battery Health screen with HP Intelligent Charging selected

  • Always on AC power: To minimize battery stress, HP Intelligent Charging detects when you have been connected to AC power for several consecutive days, and then automatically discharges the battery to 80% and temporarily limits your charge capacity to 80%. To end the battery charge capacity limit, disconnect from and reconnect to AC power. The battery can charge to 100% capacity until HP Intelligent Charging again detects that the computer has been connected continuously to AC power for 7 consecutive days.

  • Always on battery power: HP Intelligent Charging learns your usage patterns and limits charge capacity to 80% during periods of inactivity when the computer is connected to AC power (for example, when you are asleep and not using the computer). Based on your usage patterns, HP Intelligent Charging increases charge capacity to 100% before learned periods of activity to make sure that you start your work with a full charge.

Set your own schedule

You can use Set Your Battery Schedule in Battery Charge Manager to customize your battery charging schedule.

Set Your Battery Schedule screen

Maximize My Battery Health setting

The Maximize My Battery Health setting discharges the battery to an 80% charge level and limits the maximum state-of-charge on the notebook battery to 80% of the maximum state-of-charge for the battery, which has been proven to optimize battery health and helps mitigate battery swelling due to high state-of-charge. The notebook battery remains at a maximum state-of-charge of 80% until you change the setting.

Use this setting in the following situations:

  • Environments where the notebooks are continually connected to AC power and seldom removed and allowed to discharge (including remote office environments).

  • The notebooks are one-year old or older (older systems might have been exposed to accelerating factors such as high state-of-charge over time).

Automatic discharge (G9 models or later)

On G9 models and later, the Maximize My Battery Health setting includes a discharge capability that discharges a battery to an 80% state-of-charge when Maximize My Battery is enabled and the battery is charged over 80%.

Battery icon update

When you have Maximize My Battery Health enabled, the battery icon in the taskbar displays the maximum state-of-charge as 100%.

When initially introduced, the battery icon in the taskbar displayed 80% as the maximum state-of-charge, because the maximum state-of-charge for the battery was limited to 80%.

With the latest update to HP Battery Health Manager, the battery icon now displays the battery charging to 100%, even though the battery charge capacity is still limited to 80%. This change was made to simplify deployment across organizations of different sizes and requirements.

Battery charge percentage
Note:

If you are running the Windows 11 operating system, a small heart icon is displayed in the Windows taskbar. The heart icon indicates that a battery health feature has been enabled.

Why is Maximize My Battery Health the default setting on select older notebooks?

BIOS update 01.17.01 changes the default setting in HP Battery Health Manager to the Maximize My Battery Health setting on select older HP business notebooks.

Maximize My Battery Health is the recommended setting for HP business notebooks that are as follows:

  • More than a year old.

  • Did not have HP Battery Health Manager set to Let HP Manage My Battery Health from the start of its deployment.

  • Continually plugged into AC power for long periods of time (for example, remote workers).

Why change to the Maximize My Battery Health setting on older notebooks?

As usage patterns for business notebooks have changed over time, HP has worked to identify the best approach to optimize battery health on older systems that might be impacted by these changes.

The Maximize My Battery Health setting helps mitigate those factors that can accelerate battery degradation and chemical aging over time. BIOS update 01.17.01 automatically enables this setting on select HP business notebooks.

To learn more about this default setting change on older notebooks, go to HP Business Notebooks - Battery Health Manager setting change.

Change HP Battery Health Manager settings

You can update your HP Battery Health Manager settings manually or by using Microsoft manageability tools or HP Client Manageability Tools. It is important that you proactively enable the recommended settings in HP Battery Health Manager based on your usage and the age of your notebook.

Setting Up the Battery Health Management Feature | HP Business Computers | @HPSupport

Access HP Battery Health Manager settings in the BIOS

The HP Battery Health Manager settings are located in the BIOS.

Note:

You can access BIOS by pressing f10 during startup

The order and description of the settings might change depending on the model and the BIOS version you have on your system.

  1. Turn off the computer, and then connect the AC adapter if it is not already connected.

  2. Turn on the computer, and then repeatedly press the f10 key to open the BIOS Setup Utility.

  3. Using the arrow keys, select Advanced > Power Management Options.

  4. To review the setting options, click Battery Health Manager, and then select the appropriate settings.

Change settings automatically using a manageability tool or dashboard

Organizations can manage and set HP Battery Health Manager across their installed base using a wide range of manageability tools. HP has developed a whitepaper that provides detailed information and sample scripts on how to change HP Battery Health Manager settings using popular manageability tools and dashboards.

Go to Enabling Battery Health Manager in Your Environment (in English) for more information.

Optimize battery health in a hybrid workforce

Companies are restructuring their organizations to allow knowledge workers and other key employees to work remotely. An estimated 33% of remote workers leave their work notebook constantly plugged into AC power, which can keep the battery in a consistent high state-of-charge. With the number of remote workers increasing, HP recommends that companies use HP Battery Health Manager to improve battery health and performance in an always-plugged-in environment.

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