It’s stopping charge at “100%” which is like plugging in any device (ie Bose headphones, wireless dildo) and unplugging immediately at green. You have to overcharge to get real capacity.
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Annoying optimised battery charging bug - keeps turning back on (iOS 14.2+)
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The optimized charging feature doesn't stop charging at 100%, it stops temporarily at 80% and then charges to 100%.
Supposed to.
But every device - across chargers, apple ID’s, everything - has 20-30% lower battery life because the final 20% is done for too short a time. Then it stops.
my phone isn’t a Jaguar, Audi, or other electric vehicle which is attempting to save battery life by retarding capacity. (Except Tesla who don’t care.)
It’s a phone. Or a computer. Or a watch.
It’s probably something in their codebase because it is a bug in watchOS 7 as well. My AW4 does the literally same stupid thing. And I’m jailbroken so I hope it doesn’t mean they release a patch that fixes it but also ****s up the jailbreaking method I use. Because if it does, I’m not 100% sure if it’s that worth it to update. Unless jb works on that future version too, or someone makes a tweak that will backport this bug fix just like a lot of tweaks like these exist for previous old iOS issues. Also hope they fix it globally and not say only on iPhones. Don’t have a new enough MacBook to check if it’s also buggy on big sur (because I run big sur officially on my mbp, but it’s too old to have optimised charging) but it might be. I recommend to check it to anyone who has a MacBook that supports optimised charging. Just so that we can tell em where it’s broken since they missed it.
Also AirPods Pro, heard they have this feature. Wonder if it’s bugged out too..
I wonder if Apple wants it to be on as default to try and avoid the battery issues they had in the past (throttling fiasco).. I don't mind that it's on by default but it should be able to be disabled if you don't want to use it. Plus, it would be nice if it worked consistently which at least in my experience has stopped and started working multiple times even though my charging schedule is mostly consistent.
Yeah, but they broke jailbreaking. Not a big deal in the end, it’s not like iOS is terrible and I have to fix it - it’s just missing haptics in the keyboard that really irk me and I used a jailbreak tweak for that and it always worked well.
I tried that tweak after reading about it around here (when I was still able to jailbreak) and it was the most obnoxious thing I'd ever paid for. If you're even semi-fast at typing the phone is basically buzzing non-stop.
I've seen optimized charging work a handful of times over the course of the last year but I've been observing since I upgraded to the Mini and it goes straight to 100% every night. I go to bed and wake up the same times five days per week so I can't imagine being too much more consistent unless I start setting an alarm for my days off (ha!).