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iPhone 15 Models Feature New Setting to Strictly Prevent Charging Beyond 80%
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I wanted to give a thumbs up but, the MR smiley option got stuck at a half-thumb up. I forgot to charge my MR account to 80% last night and my reply options are under 20%.
Most of you are probably aware and while it sucks this isn’t for older phones you can achieve the same thing with a smart plug and shortcuts.
One has to question of the recycled materials in the battery they OFFICIALLY announced during the keynote result in not having great battery health?
They experimented already with recycled materials on the iPhone 14's hence the bad battery health on those models (reaching 90% in few months).
If this feature is introduced to mask that. Think about that.
If a users lock out 20% it means the battery health would last longer.
A battery-gate upcoming feature to mask the penny savings from Apple?
Cause there is absolutely NO reason why you want to stop at 80% all the time....unless something is wrong with the battery quality!
This is the same strategy done with SSDs where you lose 20% capacity to keep the health up.
They experimented already with recycled materials on the iPhone 14's hence the bad battery health on those models (reaching 90% in few months).
If this feature is introduced to mask that. Think about that.
If a users lock out 20% it means the battery health would last longer.
A battery-gate upcoming feature to mask the penny savings from Apple?
Cause there is absolutely NO reason why you want to stop at 80% all the time....unless something is wrong with the battery quality!
This is the same strategy done with SSDs where you lose 20% capacity to keep the health up.
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Dude this is a pro feature. So you need the A17 Pro to handle this.
Forced upgrades. If older iPhones do no get this, their battery will worsen faster over time and generally results in upgrades. That...or this feature needs the new speed of AI on the A17 to handle this situation.
Weird to see from Apple but I appreciate it for my use case.
I keep my Mac with AlDente at 80% because most of its life is spent connected to the display at the home office and my phone is only off the charger if I'm hopping out because I have to go out at random and feel anxious going out with less than 30% charge in a metropolitan area where I need my phone to access my transportation card.
It does help preserve the health of the battery in situations like this where most of the time you're sitting at 100%, it is indeed chemically stressful for the battery.
Obviously it's meant to target such use cases and most will keep it off.
I keep my Mac with AlDente at 80% because most of its life is spent connected to the display at the home office and my phone is only off the charger if I'm hopping out because I have to go out at random and feel anxious going out with less than 30% charge in a metropolitan area where I need my phone to access my transportation card.
It does help preserve the health of the battery in situations like this where most of the time you're sitting at 100%, it is indeed chemically stressful for the battery.
Obviously it's meant to target such use cases and most will keep it off.
Please provide evidence that wireless charging damages iPhone batteries more than plugged-in charging.
And to do that, you need a Home hub (ATV, HomePod), a Thread enabled smart plug, or even worse a smart plug and a bridge, and then you still need to set up a Shortcut. Invest a few hundo so you can enjoy charging to 80% nowhere else but home, where all you smart home accessories are. No thank you.
On that note - I'm pretty sure, they'll release this "feature" to all other iOS 17 compatible phones, since they are all about the green, oops, all about going green now. They'll put a magical, ultra positive PR spin to it as saviours of Mother Nature aka Octavia Spencer.
This is an option already present for the now discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack, which only charges the iPhone to 90%, unless you explicitly override that setting in Control Center, so leaving it exclusive to the "15" family would be absurd.
Not me, if the 14Pro gets it anyway, the battery life during the day isn't good enough to take a 20% hit and I don't plan on keeping it long enough to make a difference. Even if I get a 15 later I wont use it.
I do have my laptops set that way though, and it makes sense for them.
My iPhone 14 Pro gets crazy hot while charging with the 30W Apple charger, since it uses the full fast charge capacity at 27W. I've received notifications about charging being on hold until the phone reaches a normal operating temperature multiple times in the summer. The MagSafe on the other hand, which I use when going to bed or at the office seldom makes the phone as hot as this, since it's less powerful and the heat generated is mostly kept at the charger end - outside the iPhone.
The 80% limit would be a very welcome addition, since that would prevent the battery from deterioration as quickly and save some serious dough and reduce the environmental impact a bit in the long run.
Also, to all the proponents of self-replaceable batteries out there - when have you actually recycled a used up rechargeable battery?
I don't support the high prices on the battery replacement service at Apple, but I think that sending the old battery back for recycling should be mandatory under at least a minimal penalty to the users exchanging it by themselves.
Not really, but there could be comments and news due to Apple intentionally omitting this function for older iPhones, subsequently letting these phones batteries get worse in faster amount of time, forcing users to change batteries in shorter amount of time, and contributing to more e-waste.How long before these headlines and online comments? "Apple intentionally limits battery capacity!"
And let's be honest, apple could and SHOULD turn on this feature even for older iPhones. Especially since Tim Cook's mouth is so full of "carbon neutral footprint" words lately. But as we all know, listening to him speaking is basically the same as turning on your hairdryer. Full of hot air with no real words coming out of it.
This feature already working on my Watch 7.When put on the charger last evening I saw this notification :
"Open charge ring means Apple Watch will now charge to an optimized limit to help extend battery lifespan.
Tap to charge beyond limit."
"Open charge ring means Apple Watch will now charge to an optimized limit to help extend battery lifespan.
Tap to charge beyond limit."
I’d be sad that this feature isn’t available for my iPhone 11… except at 82% battery health I’m almost there!
If you insist, perhaps in a more serious tone, they will do it. I don't encourage Karening out, but just insist that you want it.
I've used HomeKit and Siri Shortcuts to automatically turn of the charger at 80% for years. My 5 year old XR is now down to 86% capacity, it was at 98% the first few years. Been trending down last couple of years probably due to a lot of travelling in hot climate and lots of fast charging to 100%. I'm at the point now where I don't really care about it anymore, the phone is so old now it's time to replace it soon,
If I'd get a new 15 I'd definitely enable max 80%, so the battery lasts the lifetime of the phone.
If I'd get a new 15 I'd definitely enable max 80%, so the battery lasts the lifetime of the phone.
As long as my battery health stays on 100% for the year I don't mind since I usually sell my iPhone each year.
No thanks. I don't care how long my battery lasts over time because I upgrade yearly regardless.
