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iOS 13 Introduces New 'Optimized Battery Charging' Feature

“Apple was found throttling the processor speeds of iOS devices with degraded batteries to prolong device life as long as possible.”

That’s one way to put it. But why slowing down the device if you can swap the battery for a new one? That’s consumer logic. The other is salesman logic. I’d say they did it to sell more units.
 
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headlessmike said:
Looking forward to this. I had Apple replace the battery in my iPhone 6S less than a year ago, and the capacity is already reduced to 85% and I have to keep performance management enabled for the phone to run stably. I'm guessing that constantly using a 2.1A charger has pushed the battery harder than necessary and degraded the life. Hopefully better charge management will reduce this problem in the future.
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Using a 2.1A charger for a quick charge when you need it, but if you are using it overnight every night that is probably a big part of your issue. Then again, the 6s batteries seem to degrade very quickly regardless - I used a 6s for 3 years and replaced the battery twice...
 
baryon said:
Sounds great, but what happens if there's the odd day when you have to get up at 3am for a long day of work? Having that 20% missing will be particularly important on a particularly long day.

I mean it could just adjust it to my alarm, but since you can have multiple alarms set, it could get a bit messy.
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Well, yeah. It’s learning your schedule. If you change that schedule without “telling” it, that’s on the user.
 
Meanwhile using Apples battery case keeps your phone at 100% all day, and no mention of battery damage..
 
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DotCom2 said:
This sounds like a very good feature but just wondering if you forget to turn it off before you remember that you have an early morning flight and you will be getting up a LOT earlier to a NOT completely charged up phone and don't find out until you are out the door! I'm sure one could make up the other 20% by other means, but just sayin'
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As others have said, I hope this is tied to the alarm and can adjust.
 
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I can totally understand why Apple have implemented this but then again I wonder how the feature will affect those of use that use a battery case. I use the Apple smart case for my iPhone XS Max. How will it work with that seen as though the case is always on and charging the iPhone?
 
my launch day X is now at 96% max capacity... can't really complain much, even though i charge it to full every day.
i usually have more than 60% left at the end of the day though.

but obviously i'll enable this, since i could easily get through the day with 80%, should i ever get up earlier.

maybe they should add an option to how much % you want to charge it too, if 100% is bad for the battery.
 
baryon said:
Sounds great, but what happens if there's the odd day when you have to get up at 3am for a long day of work? Having that 20% missing will be particularly important on a particularly long day.

I mean it could just adjust it to my alarm, but since you can have multiple alarms set, it could get a bit messy.
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Don’t know how it is implemented in iOS 13. But on my Xperia XZ2 Premium, there is a pop-up every time when I plug it in and the optimal charging mode is activated.
I can then choose normal quick charging on that pop-up.
 
This is one of the coolest features of iOS 13 and very well done on Apple part. For the prices they're charging, this makes my purchase feel more validated.
 
MacRumors said:
Battery health has been a hot topic over the course of the last year, after Apple was found throttling the processor speeds of iOS devices with degraded batteries to prolong device life as long as possible.
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Apple's words or re-writing history? Apple's band-aid was an attempt to lessen the occurrences of unexpected powers-offs. The behavior was drawing unwanted attention to a defect or insufficiency in the hardware's power management. In large numbers, the reports would have tarnished Apple's reputation for engineering and possibly resulted in a recall. Knowing that a degraded battery was the trigger, why didn't Apple geniuses propose a replacement battery? That would have prolonged a device's life (as we saw later). Nope. They tried to hide the issue and best remedy. Allowed customers to assume a new phone was the only choice when the band-aid compromised performance. Got busted. Had to apologize and offer discounted battery replacements as damage control.

That is what transpired.
 
I've had my iPhone X since day 1 of release. I use it all the time for business including video and stills. I top it up whenever I can. After almost 2 years the battery is at 85% peak performance. I think I'll be fine with this as I cannot risk having it not fully charged as my schedule is unpredictable and I have range anxiety.
 
zooby said:
What happens is you turn off the setting on that one odd day (or night)
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Well for me, one point I will forget, and then I'll turn it off and never use it again to make sure it never happens again. I'm just saying that the inevitability of user error (which is just a matter of time) can make the feature totally useless as people will just not use it.

There's a reason do not disturb automatically turns off in the morning, or WiFi automatically gets re-enabled after a day: if just once, you forget to turn it back off and miss an important call, or watch a bunch of YouTube videos thinking you're on WiFi and then you end up with no data left for a month, people will just avoid using the feature altogether.

And given that it's a "smart" phone, and that it even knows exactly what time I will wake up since I literally tell it when to wake me up, it should be able to take that into account. I think that would make sense.
 
I bought my iPhone x on day one. It stays on the charger all night and through the day if I have excess to a charger I plug it in. Very rarely has my phones battery gone below 80-85%. My battery health went from 100% 2 weeks ago down to 99%. So how could this feature help me?
 
coolfactor said:
A forum conversation with 99% excitement and positive comments! Wow, someone mark this day on a calendar!

Kudos to Apple for continuing to find ways to make life better... for our batteries.
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Does the device have the ability to control the external case batteries? Through an app? API? I have no experience with these.

I can't see how iOS can control the charging of an external case unless they talk to each other.
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Apple branded smart case could certainly do that since the phone has two way communication and awareness of it. I have a mophie one, this will probably drive it nuts to try to figure out any sort of patten.
 
bigchief said:
I bought my iPhone x on day one. It stays on the charger all night and through the day if I have excess to a charger I plug it in. Very rarely has my phones battery gone below 80-85%. My battery health went from 100% 2 weeks ago down to 99%. So how could this feature help me?
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For best battery health, the state of charge shouldn't be near 100%.

iOS doesn't provide battery health percentage. It only provides battery capacity info. There are other factors that affect battery aging including impedance and self-discharge.
 
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archer75 said:
Then turn the feature off on those days. I mean, since it's an odd day you're already changing your alarm right? Change this along with it.
Yes, it would be nice if it tied to the alarm though. Maybe it will.
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Make a shortcut for it.....That's what those are for, right?
 
Apple has absolutely killed it this year with software updates, my hardware gripes aside, this year has really renewed my confidence in Apple.
 
KazKam said:
I'm all for anything they can do to optimize battery performance and extend life, so well done on this one. However, at the end of the day, the one thing they could do to really make a difference is make all the phones just a mm thicker and fill it with battery. Bigger battery is what I want, as much as they can spare.
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To be fair, Apple has been doing exactly this for the past couple of generations. The Xs and Xr have some of the longest battery lives for iPhones.
 
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