iOS 26 Lets You Know How Long It'll Take Your Battery to Charge

[Séamus Boyle]

Click on the date above the time.

Not working for me. When I click on the date, it keeps opening my fitness app.

 

[Paddle1]

Not working for me. When I click on the date, it keeps opening my fitness app.

Tapping the date doesn't do anything for me. If there's fitness widget that might be stopping it from appearing.

 

[t0rqx]

Slow charging (5W) isn't bad, it's even better for the battery. Looks like they 'warn' you on purpose so that you use a faster charger -> faster heating -> faster battery degradation.

and to buy a new fast charger.

 

[Rafagon]

I know of at least one brand of free government phone that already does this!!

Yes, those utterly slow, very basic phones that the government offers for needy folks free of charge!!

 

[zorinlynx]

My iPhone considers my bedside 15W Anker magsafe charging stand to be "slow" and I'm like... seriously, how fast do I want to charge wirelessly? The phone already gets warm enough at 15W and it's done halfway through the night. If anything I wouldn't mind it being *slower*.

To charge any faster than that I want to plug in to avoid heat build-up.

 

[klasma]

Who said it was AI anything?

They probably mixed it up with Adaptive Power, which is only available on Apple Intelligence-capable devices apparently, and the rumors preceding WWDC called it an AI feature.

 

[darngooddesign]

Android has had this for years….

This feature predates Android's usage.

 

[alexandr]

It's on the lockscreen too, sort of:

OK! That's much better!

 

[zorinlynx]

They probably mixed it up with Adaptive Power, which is only available on Apple Intelligence-capable devices apparently, and the rumors preceding WWDC called it an AI feature.

Well that's disconcerting. They're already starting to put quality of life features that aren't really "AI" behind the AI banner, probably to encourage us people without interest in AI to turn it on.

I figured this would happen. I have no interest in LLMs vacuuming up my data and wasting valuable memory and CPU resources on my phone!

 

[ThomasJL]

An estimate of the time it takes a device to charge used to be available on the Mac, but Apple removed it long ago.

Typical Tim Cook.

 

[darngooddesign]

Typical Tim Cook.

That happened long before TC was running things so... typical Steve Jobs I guess.

 

[darngooddesign]

Well that's disconcerting. They're already starting to put quality of life features that aren't really "AI" behind the AI banner, probably to encourage us people without interest in AI to turn it on.

The rumors, not Apple, called it an AI thing.

 

[mateo124]

How-long-until-charged is a feature that countless rechargeable devices have offered since the 19-friggin-90s. It amazes me how they tout obvious retro features as bold innovations.

Probably paywalled behind the iPhone 16 as well.

 

[jamezr]

This feature predates Android's usage.

So what operating system was showing a phones battery charging progress on the AOD lock screen BEFORE Android?
Can you provide a screenshot of that?

 

[baconcat_8964]

It's good. And now I hope they have estimated battery life.

 

[turbineseaplane]

How-long-until-charged is a feature that countless rechargeable devices have offered since the 19-friggin-90s. It amazes me how they tout obvious retro features as bold innovations.

And only in Apple land do people act like it's some breathtaking innovation.

 

[darngooddesign]

And only in Apple land do people act like it's some breathtaking innovation.

We dont. We had it in Powerbooks.

 

[boswald]

Finally!

 

[turbineseaplane]

We dont. We had it in Powerbooks.

👆 yes 👇

How-long-until-charged is a feature that countless rechargeable devices have offered since the 19-friggin-90s. It amazes me how they tout obvious retro features as bold innovations.

 

[grammatica]

Don't worry, folks. We'll get a "minutes remaining until depleted" setting in 10 years. 🙄

 

[svish]

Great to see this. Should have been made available years ago. A widget is also necessary.

 

[darngooddesign]

Don't worry, folks. We'll get a "minutes remaining until depleted" setting in 10 years. 🙄

In my experience that never works well since your time to 0% changes depending on what you are doing; like going from answering emails to watching a movie.

 

[HazeAndHahmahneez]

Having to go into the settings app, kinda ruins it a little.

What’s wrong with settings? Just the inconvenience of clicking on it or something else entirely?

Hans down one of my favorite apps 💪🏽

Android copied it from existing phones.

Android /samsung etc copied the entire modern phone concept smh

Slow charging (5W) isn't bad, it's even better for the battery. Looks like they 'warn' you on purpose so that you use a faster charger -> faster heating -> faster battery degradation.

Maybe that is the reason for the yellow warning text smh

Cmon apple…

It's on the lockscreen too, sort of:

Will try and report

Click on the date above the time.

Will try and repot

I know of at least one brand of free government phone that already does this!!

Yes, those utterly slow, very basic phones that the government offers for needy folks free of charge!!

This is insane. Had no idea this was a thing. Amazing. Like govt cheese lol

Mind blown.

 

[alexandr]

What’s wrong with settings? Just the inconvenience of clicking on it or something else entirely?

Having to go into settings to see how much time is left, but as pointed out — you'll be able to see that on Lock Screen.

 

[Mike Wolf]

What about iPadOS. Someone go check please.