Apple Adds Energy and Battery Labels to iPhone and iPad Pages in EU

[jz0309]

Look at how many smartphones are in existence and multiply that.

Look at how many smartphones are in existence and multiply that. It’s clear to see. If everyone saves even 5 quid a year, which is a net gain for an individual, everyone doing the same will help in the grand scheme of things.

you're not saving 5 quid per year, maybe 50 cents of savings per year but that's about it. You quoted my post ...

so lets just say that every smartphone in the world save 1kWh per year, and lets say there are 10 Billion smartphones in use, so that's a saving of 10 Billion kWhrs per year
there are 8,760hrs in a year, a 500MW power plant generates 4,380,000,000kWh per year, so that makes 4,380 Billion kWhrs per year.
Congratulations, you can now shut off the 500MW power plant for a few hours in a year ...

 

[cupcakes2000]

The reality is that nobody cares... you look at this when you buy a fridge, oven or maybe a washing machine and a drier but a phone? Faking useless idiots!

*you don’t care.

you're not saving 5 quid per year, maybe 50 cents of savings per year but that's about it. You quoted my post ...
View attachment 2521976

so lets just say that every smartphone in the world save 1kWh per year, and lets say there are 10 Billion smartphones in use, so that's a saving of 10 Billion kWhrs per year
there are 8,760hrs in a year, a 500MW power plant generates 4,380,000,000kWh per year, so that makes 4,380 Billion kWhrs per year.
Congratulations, you can now shut off the 500MW power plant for a few hours in a year ...

Keep multiplying my friend. The more we, as a whole save, the better. No? I’m sure you don’t, as a higher being, but many people utilise store cards or other methods to save pennies in the pound. Even the most Neanderthal amongst us must realise it’s a net gain. Now multiply that planet wide. Those that cannot see that is a net gain for everyone are those that I will never understand.

 

[jz0309]

*you don’t care.

Keep multiplying my friend. The more we, as a whole save, the better. No? I’m sure you don’t, as a higher being, but many people utilise store cards or other methods to save pennies in the pound. Even the most Neanderthal amongst us must realise it’s a net gain. Now multiply that planet wide. Those that cannot see that is a net gain for everyone are those that I will never understand.

my numbers were already "planet wide" assuming 10B smartphones ...

Now, a modern datacenter, lets just say for cloud storage, uses easily way upwards of 1 Billion kWhrs per year, so how about reducing cloud storage, not running chatgpt ...

this whole labeling of smartphones is such a small number, not even a rounding error, but that's what bureaucrats like to do ...
Go after the real big wasters out there, there are plenty of them ...

 

[Adysubman]

Sometimes EU is just dumb. What’s the point of printing a physical copy of the label? I’ve always wondered what that’s going to help. I do live in the EU.

Well that’ll be the responsibility of a whole department of 200 people, getting rid of physical cards and stickers on products means they’d be out of job and we can’t have that.

 

[DunedinD]

That’s purely dependent on how you use the device. If you use it more, the battery health suffers. Isn’t that obvious?

No, it isn’t obvious, because I use both devices daily and tend towards discharging and then recharging to 80%. Consequently, why one’s health degraded considerably within nine months of buying, where the phone hadn’t budged at all in the same duration is a little strange. I expected the phone would’ve actually dropped before now. The iPad’s health is already 7% down, yet I had a previous 3rd-gen Pro model for six years and it just reached 79% after all that time.

 

[Omega Mac]

What on Earth are you on about? I used to live in the EU, and don't recognise anything you've said.

You lived in a European country (one or more) that was beholden to some treaties. The EU is not a place. It's a set of treaties since Coal & Steel. i.e. a bunch of treaties. Britain left the union (of treaties) as it never gave up its currency (sterling). Though they are still getting wiped out too. The EU is not sovereign.

 

[Omega Mac]

Energy labels… on a smartphone?

The electricity cost to charge a smartphone over a year typically less than €1 or $1 annually, depending on usage and local electricity rates

EU bureaucrats are clowns.

(Written by an EU citizen).

Meta citizenship. You are a citizen of your country first.

 

[Hank001]

Buy AppleCare after the hw and you get this 92 page booklet:

Comment: Why does a company with Apple's environmental credentials sell AppleCare as 92 pages of paper? - 9to5Mac

I noted a few weeks ago that, given the ultra-low repairability of the new MacBook Pro, I was buying AppleCare...

9to5mac.com

 

[Apple Core]

To comply with a new regulation that takes effect today, Apple has added an energy efficiency label to its iPhone and iPad pages in EU countries. Apple is also required to start including a printed version of the label with the devices sold there.

The label grades a given iPhone or iPad model's energy efficiency from a high of A to a low of G, based on the EU's testing parameters. However, Apple said that certain aspects of the testing methods outlined by the European Commission are "ambiguous," so it chose to be conservative with its scores until testing is standardized.

In a 44-page document detailing its testing methodology for the labels, Apple said its current iPhone models qualified for the highest energy efficiency grade of A, but the company voluntarily downgraded these scores to a B as a cautionary measure:The label also provides details about a given iPhone or iPad model's battery life per full charge cycle, repairability grade, impact resistance, ingress protection rating for water and dust resistance, and how many full charge cycles the battery is rated for. Likewise, this information is based on Apple's interpretation of the EU's testing parameters.

On the web, the label can be viewed by clicking or tapping on the colorful little tag icon on various iPhone and iPad pages on Apple's localized websites for EU countries. It is shown on both Apple's main product marketing pages for all iPhone and iPad models that are currently sold in the EU, and on the purchase page for those devices.

The label is accompanied by a product information sheet (PDF) that provides a comprehensive overview of even more details, such as the device's battery capacity in mAh, screen scratch resistance based on the Mohs hardness scale, the minimum guaranteed timeframe for availability of security updates, and much more.

On the European Commission's website, there is a database that lets you view energy label information for smartphones and tablets sold in the EU.

More details about the label are available on the European Commission's website.

EU countries include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. The labels are also shown in Norway and Switzerland.

Article Link: Apple Adds Energy and Battery Labels to iPhone and iPad Pages in EU

The EU are a joke. They should be making their own devices instead of putting restrictions on others.
If I was Apple, I will stop supplying the EU.