Five Ways iOS 26 Improves Your iPhone's Battery

[svish]

Adaptive power mode will be useful. Too bad it is available only on newer iPhones. Lot of changes to the battery section, some of which could have been implemented way before.

 

[O.N.Y.X]

It’s been mentioned before but I couldn’t help it:

Because Adaptive Power uses Apple Intelligence Apple Planned Obsolescence, it requires an iPhone 15 Pro or newer.

… because there is no way Apple could code algorithms that could automatically detect high power usage apps on those antiquated iPhones 14 and older. 🙈