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My Galaxy S21 lets me pick between normal, fast, or super-fast charging in the settings. Not quite one tap, but it does let you do it.

That said "super-fast" charging on it is like 18W and still about an hour from 20%, so it doesn't really qualify as fast charging IMO, and at an hour is certainly not going to be causing any excess battery wear. It's just normal speed.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Charge

Quick charge started at 7.5W

My charge "Standard" was set in the time 500mA was supplied by most phone chargers. Just saying I am old.


For sure, but for terms of battery wear all that really matters is the time to charge. Under 1 hour is getting into the realm of 'really fast' and heat inside the cell starts to become an issue.




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