You know what might help reduce one’s carbon foot significantly more? Not buying an iPhone year after year. But that might dent on the profits, so never mind.
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iOS 16.1 Beta Adds Clean Energy Charging Option to iPhone
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Holy Crap, I never knew so many specialists in the field.
I don't think most people do that anymore? I've had my 11PM since 2019 and will probably keep it another year.
Thought battery optimization was already doing that because my iPhone would be charged by 6AM. 
Similar to the Optimized Charging, this will get turned off.
It’s pretty gross it’s enabled by default upon updating to the 16.1 beta. Hopefully they change that before final release…
I don’t get it. Is that an American thing that your power is generated by a different resource depending on the time of day?!
I don’t think that’s the case here. You get whatever source you signed the contract with here as far as I know.
Also how would the phone KNOW.
I don’t think that’s the case here. You get whatever source you signed the contract with here as far as I know.
Also how would the phone KNOW.
This. On MacOS, there's even a third-party app allowing for doing this. Too bad it's in the Task list so it's very hard to just kill it when it's operating.
Virtue signaling nonsense… but getting battery % indicators on ALL supported iPhones in iOS 16 is nigh impossible
Its not. Its making a guess about where your power is coming from based on the time of day, its just delaying your charging until later... so if you plug your phone in and its an emergency to charge, and you forget about this, it may not be charged when you need it.
The exact opposite of what a mobile phone is to me... a useless brick
If you charge your phone during peak times you're a terrible person!!!
Same thing here and I also immediately disable the ‘optimized’ charging feature too. I need my phone charged FULL and as quickly as possible. I don’t need it basically pausing @ 80%.
People all over the country don’t get their electricity from the same generators. So How will apple know when someone say in Texas or New York is likely getting power from low carbon sources? What if the person lives in a state or country with little to no low carbon generation, what the phone won’t charge? Lol.
So 1 billion iphones being charged greener will fail to make a difference.
So what? You can still wireless charge using more green energy.
Apple already does, it’s called optimized charging.
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Optimised battery charging I always turn off and now clean energy will be as well.
Clean energy charging is woke trash! Stop the steal! Fake news!
....did I do that right for a PRSI thread?
....did I do that right for a PRSI thread?
Let's see...X number of managers meeting Y number of hours to decide to do this (after who knows how much time and energy to come up with it) working in air conditioned offices or houses possibly traveling back and forth to work or the bedroom and spinning up the fans on their computers to Zoom with others to formalize the memos to tell Z number of programmers to work on this from air conditioned offices or homes traveling back and forth to work or the bedroom and spinning up the fans to Zoom to with others to add W number of lines of code thus increasing the CPU time required to repeatedly write/compile/write/compile to test the code to get it working and through some review process by who knows how many people working in air conditioned offices or traveling back and forth to work or the bedroom for testing on how many devices that don't charge greenly since they don't have the update yet and then more managers and memos and any number of marketing people figuring out the naming of this feature (gems like 'dynamic island') and creating glossy web pages and brochures from their air conditioned offices or bedrooms while spinning up their computer fans to Zoom back and forth in collaboration to add a feature that in the end doesn't actually save one electron of electricity because by the time this feature is available there will be who knows how many more iPhones out on the street with even larger batteries. Is nuclear power considered green? Let's take a look at how many managers and designers working in air conditioned offices it takes to plan...
Laying the groundwork for the next big scam, you’ll charge only if your carbon credit is allowing you to.
That’s how it’s gonna work
Please explain further. I’d like to hear the rational behind this well thought out statement.