Clean energy charging? Should it be left enabled or disabled after updating to 16.1?
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Clean energy charging? Should it be left enabled or disabled after updating to 16.1?
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It's your personal choice. I turned it off.
It’s under settings > battery > battery health
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Key words: 'in your region'. It clearly isn't available in my region because I don't have that option.
I don't want my phone downloading grid data and telling me when I can charge my phone or not. The electrical grid should work to serve me, not the other way around.
As long as my phone is charged by morning I don’t care.
That said, my iPhone 12 didn’t charge this morning. It paused overnight, but never resumed charging. Rather it said it resumed, but wouldn’t actually charge until I reboot the phone. That was iOS 16, so hopefully that doesn’t happen in iOS 16.1.
That said, my iPhone 12 didn’t charge this morning. It paused overnight, but never resumed charging. Rather it said it resumed, but wouldn’t actually charge until I reboot the phone. That was iOS 16, so hopefully that doesn’t happen in iOS 16.1.
Disabled. It would totally suck not to realize your phone paused charging when you need to be out the door in 5 minutes.
I was shocked to learn this was turned on by default. This should be opt in. My phone is a vital communication device. When I decide to charge it I want it to actually charge. I turned this off.
Surprised? On you mean because Apple always advertises how eco and green it is with every keynote, so this should be naturally turned off by them?
Not.
Tap a few buttons and turn it off, easy.
It is one thing for Apple to make various marketing claims about what it does. It is another for my device to default to some setting I may not know exists and may not know is on by default.
When I plug in my device I would naturally expect it to charge. I would not expect it to “reduce my carbon footprint” and selectively charge when “lower carbon emission electricity” is available. Apple’s default setting defy user expectations for how the product they purchased should work. I wouldn’t expect my phone to communicate with power companies (who I don’t trust or wish to share data with) to see if it is OK to charge my phone.
Maybe in ten years that would be an expectation. But I expect to be undersea and drowned by then.
Like Optimized Charging, you can override the should not be charging behavior:
Apple said:
Use Clean Energy Charging on your iPhone - Apple Support
With iOS 16.1, your iPhone can try to reduce your carbon footprint by selectively charging when lower carbon-emission electricity is available.
Of course, this isn’t going to be feasible when you’re sleeping. 😉
Downloading 16.1 now, first thing I'll be doing after reboot is turning off Clean Energy Charging.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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Saw this today. Not going to lie. It freaked me out a little.
They lost this argument after adding a dongle for the new ipad 10th gen pencil. I will never again believe it.
My Xs Max would not charge today, then I turned off "Clean Energy Charging" and my Xs Max started charging.
Well, this escalated quickly till someone could not charge their phone when needed 😂
Also not surprising, five posts earlier, I spotlighted the simple override method from the official support document.
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As long as your phone is fully charged the next morning you wake up, why do you even care?