I know when I'm using a slow iCharger, I don't need to be shamed for it every single time. Also, iPhoneOS clearly knows the charging time to 80%, and it chooses to shame me instead of giving me the correct charging time. Steve Jobs would be proud!
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"Are you one of the poors?" charging prompt still present in iPhoneOS 26.4
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jz0309
macrumors P6
Well the best thing to do would be to vote with your money and get another phone and accessories
I'm running the iPhone 18 Pro Insider Preview, what newer and better phone and accessories would you recommend I get?
jz0309
macrumors P6
Best would be an iPhone with a Lightning port and only a USB-A plug, then you don't have to worry about "slow" charging...
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. I am also considering doing an oil filter delete on my car. I hear it isn't really needed and will reduce weight.
jz0309
macrumors P6
Yep, oil filters are overrated, I don't have one in my car, just not necessary and with the current oil prices, you'll never look back
throAU
macrumors G4
Its a way of telling you "you could be charging faster"
Ah, the current version of "you're holding it wrong."
throAU
macrumors G4
BenGoren
macrumors 6502a
You might know when you’re using your own charger at home. But what percentage of iPhone users even know about their own charger, and do you know if you’re using some other charger, such as in an emergency top-up kind of situation? Or if you get a new charger?
You might wish to consider why you feel it's shameful to see that the charger is slow. Many on these forums intentionally use slow chargers to reduce the stress on their batteries — especially for overnight charging when the phone will still reach full charge in the early wee hours of the morning, long before you wake up. That’s not shameful, that’s careful and diligent. (Whether it actually makes a difference and / or is worthwhile is the subject of many debates, of course.) And, again, isn’t it better to know, than to think that the charger you’re using is the slow one you want instead of full-power? Or maybe your charger is one of the countless ones that supports different max wattage on a per-port basis, and you can’t remember whether it’s the top that’s fast, or the very stylish minimalist styling of the charger makes it near impossible to tell which is which, or ...
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I think it's more useful to just show the time until 50/80% though instead of saying it's a slow charger. Or just show me the actual charging wattage.
BillyJoeJimBob
macrumors regular
IIRC charging "slowly" and only to 80-90% will extend the life of your battery. Unless Apple has injected some sort of premature battery aging feature in these recent iOS' to facilitate device turnover.
b0fh666
macrumors 6502a
this charger nonsense is annoying AF. if I plug my notebook's PSU (which is probably 100w+) it still charges slow as molasses... rediculous techinológia, this apple stuff.
Parowdy
macrumors 68000
That’s a problem with your charger then. I’ve used Lenovo, MacBook, iPad, iPhone, cheap and less cheap Amazon fast chargers and can’t relate at all.
If your phone doesn’t charge correct, that’s annoying. But that’s usually not the case. Try a different fast charger.
Reverend Benny
macrumors 68000
I love this feature, have a few cables at my desk hooked up to different chargers and screens. One of them (the one hooked up to my screen) is slow as hell and always happy that it tells that it is. Then I can swap to another if I am in a hurry.
It would be more useful if it weren't replaced by "slow charger."
It says “slow charging”. How did you get “peasant charging” from that?
How is “you have the option to charge faster and save time” a bad thing?
You are reading between the lines that aren’t there.
How is “you have the option to charge faster and save time” a bad thing?
You are reading between the lines that aren’t there.
I was going to say... I am by no means poor, looking at all the hardware I have personally and from work (including brand new M5 MBP w/64GB RAM, ~$4k). Yet, I choose to carry with me slow chargers and charge slowly. I have not found reason why I should fast charge my devices, like ever... and only rarely my EV. The chemistry of current batteries lasts longer and better with slow charging. It is changing, but we are not there yet.
So, what's the problem here?
So, what's the problem here?
I don’t see the problem, especially in the world of USB-C where every USB-C cable looks the same, and yet they all could be different speeds, different wattages, different specifications.
What doesn’t matter to you might absolutely matter to someone else, there are literally plenty of anecdotal stories of people who plug in their phone while using it only for it to continue draining quicker than it is charging because, surprise, surprise, slow chargers are slow.
What doesn’t matter to you might absolutely matter to someone else, there are literally plenty of anecdotal stories of people who plug in their phone while using it only for it to continue draining quicker than it is charging because, surprise, surprise, slow chargers are slow.
klasma
macrumors G4
You’re reading that wrong. Slow charging is preferable for battery longevity, hence that display is to reassure you that you’re indeed using the better charging option.
uacd
macrumors 68000
I bought this crapphone 17 Pro and I guess I am not that poor😀. That’s why I prefer to preserve it’s battery and charge it with old 5V brick, whatever Apple thinks or says
Just confirmed this strange switch with my 7.5W Qi charger. At first, fleetingly, it shows you the time to charge:
But very soon after, that goes away and you’re left with only a Slow Charger notice and now your estimate is gone.
I don’t actually mind the message here (helpful for people using some old-ass charger and don’t know better).
But it seems to me they could leave the time estimate in place and throw up a separate notification about the slow charger that the user can dismiss if they don’t care.
Probably not worth the dramatic subject title of this thread, but annoying nonetheless.
But very soon after, that goes away and you’re left with only a Slow Charger notice and now your estimate is gone.
I don’t actually mind the message here (helpful for people using some old-ass charger and don’t know better).
But it seems to me they could leave the time estimate in place and throw up a separate notification about the slow charger that the user can dismiss if they don’t care.
Probably not worth the dramatic subject title of this thread, but annoying nonetheless.
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Steve Jobs is dead. Who cares
eoblaed
macrumors 68040
You feeling shamed is entirely a you thing. The OS is offering a relevant data point that many folks will find helpful. It also wards off complaints from customers about how slow their phones charge, thinking it might be their phone rather than the charger itself.