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Five New Features Coming to Your iPhone With iOS 16.1 Later This Month

Oh boy! Can’t wait to delete the wallet app! Samsung and Google pay here I come.

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ian87w said:
Clean energy charging? What does that even mean, and how does Apple know what my electricity company is doing? Whats next, you can only charge iphone when you have Apple approved "green" electric company providing the electricity to your home? I mean virtue signalling is one thing, but this is either dumb or super Orwellian.
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That’s what I was thinking lol. I could see 5 years from, now during climate change lockdowns, Apple disabling charging your phone until a designated time :D:p
 
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jimothyGator said:
The average daily engergy consumption for U.S. residential customers is 29,400 Wh. The iPhone 14 Pro Max has a battery capacity of 16.75 Wh.

If you fully drain and charge your iPhone twice a day, congratulations: by using the Clean Energy setting, you've reduced your carbon footprint by no more than 0.12%. (That maximum reduction would require that 100% of grid energy production during the clean energy time is carbon-free, 0% of the energy production during other times is carbon-free, and that if it weren't for this Clean Energy setting that 100% of your charging would be done during non-clean energy times).

Doing nothing for the planet, one virtue signal at a time.
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Yeah, and it probably uses more energy in computational power to see when the lower carbon emission electricity is available than what it saves by doing so.
 
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David1964 said:
Hey Apple, give us back our dark mode wallpapers and the ability to set a home screen wallpaper direct from the Photos app instead of going straight to the clunky Lock Screen.The iOS 16 wallpaper picker sucks! Poor choice of stock wallpapers.
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And what exactly prevents you from setting “a home screen wallpaper direct from the Photos app”? Pick a photo and off you go. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
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The average daily engergy consumption for U.S. residential customers is 29,400 Wh. The iPhone 14 Pro Max has a battery capacity of 16.75 Wh.

If you fully drain and charge your iPhone twice a day, congratulations: by using the Clean Energy setting, you've reduced your carbon footprint by no more than 0.12%. (That maximum reduction would require that 100% of grid energy production during the clean energy time is carbon-free, 0% of the energy production during other times is carbon-free, and that if it weren't for this Clean Energy setting that 100% of your charging would be done during non-clean energy times).

Doing nothing for the planet, one virtue signal at a time.
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But if everyone did it, the change would be huge. A $5.00 'fee' on a cellphone bill isn't a show stopper, but multiplied by ALL of their customers, that small 'fee' is HUGE MONEY! Just the idea that if people turned the lights off in rooms when they leave can save pennies on their electric bill also means the energy usage for the planet drops by a surprising amount. So is turning off the lights really that much of a burden? Is it really that hard to see that little things multiplied by millions of people have a huge effect?
 
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I sure hope that "In-App content" has a granularity per each app. I also would have assumed that's what "Background app refresh" did but clearly it doesn't do much.
 
ian87w said:
Clean energy charging? What does that even mean, and how does Apple know what my electricity company is doing? Whats next, you can only charge iphone when you have Apple approved "green" electric company providing the electricity to your home? I mean virtue signalling is one thing, but this is either dumb or super Orwellian.
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To help the environment, I am willing to turn this off and use up all the dirty energy. No need to thank me.
 
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Wish they would fix that messages still appear unread even after you read them on the home screen and if you get a message when you're in another app and tap on it you still have to go out of the message to the main message window and tap on it there. Even though you've read the message.
iPhone XS-Max
 
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And what exactly prevents you from setting “a home screen wallpaper direct from the Photos app”? Pick a photo and off you go. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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There is no option to directly set to home screen like there was in previous iOS's.It adds it direct to the new lock screen and you have to customise from there.Too many steps just to change your wallpaper.It was much simpler before.
 
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Now that the A16 is as powerful as the M1 Apple needs to install Rosetta for android apps and run them in a sand box. That would be the killer app for switching users so android users could run their Google store purchases on iOS. :cool:
 
PinkyMacGodess said:
But if everyone did it, the change would be huge. A $5.00 'fee' on a cellphone bill isn't a show stopper, but multiplied by ALL of their customers, that small 'fee' is HUGE MONEY! Just the idea that if people turned the lights off in rooms when they leave can save pennies on their electric bill also means the energy usage for the planet drops by a surprising amount. So is turning off the lights really that much of a burden? Is it really that hard to see that little things multiplied by millions of people have a huge effect?
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No, it wouldn’t be huge; the unrealistically ideal maximum savings is still 0.12%. And you'd only get to that figure if every phone user was an iPhone user (or if Android had a similar feature), and all upgraded to the latest OS, along with the other caveats I mentioned earlier. The aggregate savings, as a percentage, will be much lower than the theoretical maximum savings for a single user. Neither you, nor the planet, will notice a reduction of 1/100 percent.

Yes, turn off those light bulbs; they use far more energy than your iPhone. A single 15W LED bulb uses about the same energy in an hour as fully charging an iPhone 14 Pro Max from 0 to 100%. A 100W incandescent bulb takes just 9 minutes to use the same energy. A household air conditioner will use that much energy in about 15 seconds.

Your iPhone simply is not a significant consumer of electricity. Based on U.S. average electricity cost of $0.144/kWH, fully charging an iPhone 14 twice per day means it costs $1.58 per year. Your $5 figure would keep your iPhone charged for more than 3 years.

P.S. In 2018, Zdnet calculated the annual cost of charging a smart phone at $0.91.
 
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SactoGuy18 said:
Hopefully, iOS 16.1 will actually be reasonably stable when I upgrade.
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Seriously, I just want my stability back. Android is supposed to be the platform of constant half baked feature releases. iOS was supposed to be the stable carefully considered platform.
 
As a developer I’m very interested in “later this month”. Is there a source for that? Does it feel finished to anyone else?

I wish the dates were more public, so hard to plan
 
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