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AirPods Gain Optimized Charging to Preserve Battery Health in iOS 14

for laptop and phone just include extra battery I don't know about, then it can charge if it wishes and give surprise extra life while ensuring I get at least the life expected when I take off charge and go. Last thing I need is surprise your battery isn't charged. This would also make the battery appear to last longer as it loses capacity with age though that isn't so good for Apple replacement profits
 
Wouldn't it be better for them to just redesign the thing so that the battery is entirely in the bottom part, and unscrews for easy replacement? Also, you could carry spare batteries, which would go a long way towards making them as user-friendly as an always-working pair of wired buds is. :)
 
I hope this feature can be disabled. Because the battery is essentially guaranteed to fail in AirPods (due to the size constraints / limitations of current technology), I would prefer to minimize battery health to ensure I'll be able to swap for a fresh pair (under the 80% capacity standard) as close as possible prior to the expiration of my 2 year AC+. Then I'll be more interested in preserving health with the replacement pair.
 
That feature worked on my iPhone 11 only in the first days of use...
 
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Sasparilla said:
This is good to hear. I'd like a user setting to just toggle off charging at 80% automatically with a user override alert for all my Apple chargeable devices (till we get batteries that last the life the device) - make the machine think version another option.
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I would love more control over how the battery of all Apple devices charge. I would cap my iPad and AirPods to 80% because of how I use them for starters. And set charge times for my iPhone at night as the smart charging is not very optimized.
 
I don’t get it. Maybe somebody can explain this to me please?

It requires iOS 14. That suggests the ‘intelligence’ to activate smart charging is on the phone and not the headphones themselves. Are the headphones really connected to your device all the time? If it’s not why does it need iOS 14?

Does this also suggest the new AirPods Pro spatial feature calculations are completed on the phone too? Why gate it only to the Pros?
 
I seem to remember that Apple in earlier times made the batteries stay within the 20-80% SOC window, yet showing the user 0-100%. That way it was fine to charge to 100%. Battery-electric vehicles are using this strategy until this day. Did it change with Apple or is my memory playing tricks on me?
 
When do The Powerbeats Pro get this feature. The AirPods have half the battery life and get all the updates while the Powerbeats Pro get squat.
 
GubbyMan said:
I enabled this on my iPhone last year and I've never seen it stop charging at 80%, not even before sleep. I want an option that gives me a choice to stop at 80% when I plug them in instead.
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Came here to say almost exactly this... Actually I did see my iPhone XS do it once, once since the "feature" was introduced. Please let me charge to 80 and stop!
 
I turned on the optimized charging on my phone. Supposedly it has AI that learns your charging habits. I plugged my charger into a smart plug and set it to turn on at 11 and off at 7. If I forget to the charge one night, the next night it forgets to use optimized charging and charges to 100% by midnight. If I get home late, and put my phone onto the charger at midnight, it forgets to use optimized charging again

This feature is the stupidest AI ever....just give me a switch that says charge to 80% and stop.
 
Is this feature supposed to charge both buds until 80% and carry on from there when needed, or is the default behavior charging one bud to 80% and the other one to 100%?

I recently got a pair of AirPods Pro's and that's what they do. There were a couple times where I used them before they got the full charge and noticed the left one was only at 80% whereas the right one was at 100
 
spytech said:
Is this feature supposed to charge both buds until 80% and carry on from there when needed, or is the default behavior charging one bud to 80% and the other one to 100%?

I recently got a pair of AirPods Pro's and that's what they do. There were a couple times where I used them before they got the full charge and noticed the left one was only at 80% whereas the right one was at 100
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Good luck figuring it out, my AirPod Pros did the same thing (I turned it off). I used to use it on my iPhone too but it was so hit or miss that I just turned it off and setup 2 automations to control a smart plug. One to start charging when the phone goes below 40% and one to shut off charging when the phone goes above 85%..
 
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BugeyeSTI said:
Good luck figuring it out, my AirPod Pros did the same thing (I turned it off). I used to use it on my iPhone too but it was so hit or miss that I just turned it off and setup 2 automations to control a smart plug. One to start charging when the phone goes below 40% and one to shut off charging when the phone goes above 85%..
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I just left it on and last I checked both were charging up to 80%, so it seems that is solved, at least for now.
As for the iPhone, it is simply maybe because you don't have a "fixed" routine? The system is extremely sensitive to changes, I notice my iPhone doesn't always do optimized charging, and my MacBook sporadically doesn't do it for a week or so until it "learns" the routine again
 
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