Submitted by JohnDeere714 t3_11e8cf9 in LifeProTips
It is found in Settings>battery>battery health & charging.
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avd706 t1_jacqu31 wrote
Unless you give a shit about the environment
JohnDeere714 OP t1_jacrlb6 wrote
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AKLmfreak t1_jacwpg1 wrote
lol, my coffee maker uses more than that in the morning. What a gimmick, indeed.
ProXJay t1_jacx9jt wrote
I thought it was more to do with battery longevity?
elcheapodeluxe t1_jacxcdw wrote
Take two hundred million iphones (less than they sold last year alone) and you're looking at 3.4 billion watt hours. Multiply that my maybe 900 full charge cycles per year and you're looking at a trillion watt hours just from the phones sold last year. Sooner or later it's going to add up to serious juice.
Vareshar t1_jacxesv wrote
Charging you phone slower will not change anything for environment, it will not cause less electricity produced and put into grid.
zdfld t1_jacy2wu wrote
Except there are 100 million iphone users, which is what you should be considering, not just one iphone.
MisterD90x t1_jacy4tx wrote
Lol what ...
zdfld t1_jacyc5y wrote
There's a different feature for battery life, but this would set charging based on when the grid has clean energy
HalikusZion t1_jacysg6 wrote
Indeed it is, lipo batteries like to be charged at 1C which is the rate that it would take one hour to charge fully so a 5000mah battery charged at 500ma would take 1 hour. All a fast charge does is charge at a higher C rate which is not good for the batteries lifespan if done repeatedly.
That said the advice I have been given is that if you can do a full discharge and recharge cycle at 1C once or twice a month you should get much better lifespan.
zdfld t1_jaczd21 wrote
That's just wrong. Obviously the electrical grid is built to support demand. Secondly, fast charging is more inefficient, that's just physics.
Also, Apple bills this as charging when the grid has more clean energy available.
Vareshar t1_jacznzs wrote
But your charging your iPhone is not enough, even all owners, to reduce expected demand. Second, Apple just reduces it during "peak times" not matter what is actually used for production of electricity
zdfld t1_jad1ex4 wrote
>Second, Apple just reduces it during "peak times" not matter what is actually used for production of electricity
The Apple support article says otherwise https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213323
>But your charging your iPhone is not enough, even all owners, to reduce expected demand.
I'm not sure why that is reason to not make a change? Most people most of the time charging at home don't need their phone topped up extremely quickly, and if you do, there's an easy way to override it.
Are we only allowed to make improvements if they're significant?
Sure I'd hate if Apple marketed it as a massive impact, just like when they marketed their "smaller boxes" after taking out chargers. But it is objectively an improvement, even if minor. Plus if Apple, Microsoft, Google and a host of others all incorporate energy saving features, it does have an impact.
WOAHdude0197 t1_jad2p1w wrote
This. Have to consider that apple just flipped this switch for every iPhone that got the update. One iPhone makes no difference but consider the millions of people with phones that never unflip this switch either because they wanna make a difference or because they had no idea about it.
Automatic_Tear9354 t1_jad4kiv wrote
Best tip of the day. I was like WTF is it taking my battery 12 hours to charge now.
MrFactsAlot t1_jad59z9 wrote
Lmfao gimme a break
SuperDuperSkateCrew t1_jad7fqd wrote
Oh, You didn’t know the world revolves around him?
llvllooshainBolt t1_jad8zs2 wrote
Your phone is not charging slower without warning. "When Clean Energy Charging suspends charging, a notification on the Lock Screen says when your iPhone will be fully charged. If you need to have your iPhone fully charged sooner, touch and hold the notification and then tap Charge Now."
Essentially you can leave this setting on and still have the option to turn it off for a period that you may need your phone to charge faster.
JohnDeere714 OP t1_jadaktd wrote
Oddly enough I’ve had yet to get that notification. In fact it seems my notification settings got messed up since the update.
llvllooshainBolt t1_jadc15y wrote
Neither have I, but I also haven't noticed my phone charging any slower than normal. I'm just sharing information from the source.
popejubal t1_jadc94b wrote
Is there a way to tell the phone to do a full battery discharge and recharge cycle at 1C?
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wildgoldchai t1_jadjhon wrote
Is this for all iPhones? I have an iPhone 13 Pro, all updated and no option of this
Pokinator t1_jadjrqi wrote
That's the intended functionality.
Clean Energy tries to reduce power draw during high-traffic times for the local power grid.
Optimized Battery pauses your charge at 80%, then finishes it later to save your battery health.
Both features try to learn your daily routines and only activate during your learned off-hours, and will always pop a notification of "Hey, I'm doing this" with an option to override and charge normally.
lovepuppy31 t1_jadk04t wrote
Is this Apple's attempt at preserving battery life or something?
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Triasmus t1_jadvtsh wrote
Not that, unless you were getting a notification that had the option to disable clean energy charging for that charge
redditsucksbigly t1_jaeckrl wrote
Please do not disable it. Please help do your part to stop climate change!
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