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iOS 18's Battery Section Tells You If You Used a Slow Charger
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I have several USB-C chargers, including up to 140W. But for daily charging my iPad and my iPhone I use a Belkin 2 port 37W charger (arround 20W on USB-C). Mostly because it is convenient because the ports are on the bottom, not on the side. But also because I think it is a good compromise between charging speed and protecting the battery. Most times I plug in the devices before going to bed and do not care at all if they are charged after 1 or 5 hours. Sometimes I have to charge my iPad during the day (mostly, when using it outside and the display has to be really bright) but eben than this charger is fast enough.
What are you going on about? I use a 5w charger at night when I'm sleeping, and I only charge at night.
Who cares...?
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I would have been more impressed if Apple had backported the hard 80% charging limit from the iPhone 15 to work on earlier models. One has to be very gullible to think that isn't technically possible. Unfortunately, they will probably drag that out, if it ever even happens, until the batteries on the earlier phones are shot from overcharging.
I think that's fine in many cases. I have a slow charger on my nightstand, because I usually charge my phone there overnight. There's no reason for me to upgrade that charger. If I need a charge in the middle of the day, a faster charger is beneficial.
That's mostly what I do also. I have extra 5w chargers laying around, might as well put them to use while I'm sleeping.
20 watts seems to be the current sweet spot for charging the latest iPhones. The wireless 15 watt standard or even wired adds another hour or so to the charge.
What I wish was available is for the phone to show how many charging watts are coming into the device and how many watts it’s currently using.
Not sure if this requires special hardware or not. If you have a specific charger going into your apple device then it’s fairly easy to know, but if you’re using a charger with multiple ports then the charging can vary based on what’s plugged in. Be nice to know, at this charging rate, it’ll take 1 Hour and 23 minutes to charge to 80% or what not.
What I wish was available is for the phone to show how many charging watts are coming into the device and how many watts it’s currently using.
Not sure if this requires special hardware or not. If you have a specific charger going into your apple device then it’s fairly easy to know, but if you’re using a charger with multiple ports then the charging can vary based on what’s plugged in. Be nice to know, at this charging rate, it’ll take 1 Hour and 23 minutes to charge to 80% or what not.
Well, some of us don’t have any pet, let alone kids, so we treat our devices with care like it was our baby. And it’s quite satisfying to be honest.
But now, seriously, maybe we’re happier doing that, maybe it’s just TOC, but to be fair you have a point, because I suspect the degradation difference between charging at 5W, at 12W or at 20W, with current technology (iPhone 8 or newer) is usually minimal.
I don't understand why we can't just get a realtime assessment of the current power throughput and a "time to fully charged" info displayed. If I am at a hotel or airport or plane or anywhere there are tons of charging ports available, if I knew in realtime this port was only delivering 5 watts, I could move. I wouldn't have to wait until hours later to find out that I could have had a fuller charge had I just moved one seat over. Seems so basic...
I wonder does it mean it now detects being charged by the original 5 watt/1 ampere USB-A charger? And what if your phone is connected to a 12 watt/2.4 ampere charger originally intended for older iPad models?
I think it is because the charge is not linear with the time variable. Like, up until 70-80% is pretty fast and linear with time, thus, predictable. But from 80% to 90% it takes longer. And from 90% to 100% even longer.
However, I think in older Intel MacBooks it used to display the time to get charged on the menu bar, so I’m not sure if it’s not doable with other devices.
This is definitely a move to try and push sales of fast chargers, after not including any in the box.
lol. That’s ********. A small amount of circuitry to sense current is what ALL lithium chargers do and have done since forever. All that the iOS update has done is expose this info on screen.