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Five Ways iOS 26 Improves Your iPhone's Battery

Paddle1 said:
Adaptive Power doesn't need Apple Intelligence enabled to work, it just happens to be exclusive to the same iPhones that have Apple Intelligence.
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Just to be clear, does this mean that on iPhone 15 Pro and newer, one can enable Adaptive Power AND leave Apple Intelligence disabled and Adaptive Power will function?

If so, I’m glad, and also wonder why it would not then be available to the 15 and older phones …?
 
Maybe stop using recycled batteries, they perform worse or adjust pricing (cheaper) as it is not on par with new batteries.
 
frumpywumpy said:
Just to be clear, does this mean that on iPhone 15 Pro and newer, one can enable Adaptive Power AND leave Apple Intelligence disabled and Adaptive Power will function?

If so, I’m glad, and also wonder why it would not then be available to the 15 and older phones …?
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It needs A19 or newer to perform
 
zobby said:
Running the beta on iPhone 15 pro max. Can’t say I see one iota of a difference between adaptive and non adaptive mode. Both mean I have to recharge mid - day ish.
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Thing is Apple Intelligence does saves battery life, but it is undone because the saved power, powers the whole AI doing.
 
Been using adaptive power mode since first public beta on an iphone 16 pro max. Noticed no improvement to battery life. If anything it’s considerably worse than ever.
 
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Come on MacRumors, don’t be ridiculous. Major iOS updates have never improved battery life, especially on non-current devices.

The new battery page is pathetic, and now offers no way to check screen-on time since last full charge.

This article is as false and as misleading as they get.
 
philosopherdog said:
They should let you decide to always enable low power after 20%, never, or ask. Defaulting to ask is maximally annoying. I guess you can use a shortcut to automate this. But it’s the small things that lead to less friction
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Missing option you’re looking for is to never enable and not prompt you. How would you implement the three choices and what would be the default?
 
One MAJOR downgrade:
no hourly battery usage info

Percentages don’t matter if you use your phone differently from day to day, even and sometimes especially in professional settings.
It’s been a useful feature so far but was removed for, what reason??
 
FeliApple said:
Come on MacRumors, don’t be ridiculous. Major iOS updates have never improved battery life, especially on non-current devices.

The new battery page is pathetic, and now offers no way to check screen-on time since last full charge.

This article is as false and as misleading as they get.
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I wish I could agree with your whole reply.
But iOS 12 and 13 were so much better than 11.
 
zobby said:
Running the beta on iPhone 15 pro max. Can’t say I see one iota of a difference between adaptive and non adaptive mode. Both mean I have to recharge mid - day ish.
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My screens brightness dips shortly after unlocking the phone. And I get a useless notification without a timestamp, sometimes randomly at night, sometimes after plugging the phone in.
That’s unfortunately it.
 
I still think it's odd that Adaptive Power Mode tells you when it turns on, but doesn't tell you when it turns off.

And how is it that Game Mode can activate while Adaptive Power Mode is on? This seems like a contradiction!!
 
frumpywumpy said:
Just to be clear, does this mean that on iPhone 15 Pro and newer, one can enable Adaptive Power AND leave Apple Intelligence disabled and Adaptive Power will function?

If so, I’m glad, and also wonder why it would not then be available to the 15 and older phones …?
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If I had to guess they most likely think it needs the power or RAM availability of the A17 Pro and above.
 
McScooby said:
Not iOS26 specific, but the one getting me lately is forgetting to turn off hotspot, as once you turn it on & close the settings page, there's no immediately identifiable way to show it's on. (if there is I've been missing it)
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What a brilliant suggestion that I didn’t think of. Just did that on all of my phones. 🫶🏻
 
only the adaptive power feature can improve battery runtime, but that's limited to certain phones.

The rest are informational updates and doesn't do anything to improve battery runtime unless people take action using the info.
 
The best thing Apple can do to improve battery, is to use AI to determine if the user is a member of MR. And if so, to block said user from seeing data that would cause user to start obsessing over battery percentage and health. Either that or Apple can pay for an MR battery hotline to deal with with obsessive fanatics 24/7. 1-800-bat-cryn
 
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