A Rare iPhone Environmental W
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so if you have an iPhone in the US you may have noticed that on the latest 16.3.1 update Apple flipped a switch on everyone's phones that makes charging slower is what some of the headlines would say but the real story is actually really interesting so if you look now in battery health settings there's a new setting called clean energy charging and what it does is it tries to reduce your carbon footprint by only charging when your house is likely to be pulling from cleaner sources of energy based on your local electrical grid that is kind of wild luckily you can override it you'll get a notification that says it's not charging and waiting for clean energy you can bypass it but the interesting thing about this one is this setting is opt out meaning if you go to check your settings it's going to be on by default now you know charging your one iPhone at slightly more optimized hours won't make a big difference to your own personal carbon footprint but Apple flipping a switch for millions and millions of iPhones at once will probably in total make a really big difference to total energy saved a rare W for the environment I also can guarantee this would be in a slide at the next Apple keynote
The short discusses Apple’s iPhone feature introduced with the 16.3.1 update called Clean Energy Charging. It explains that the setting appears in Battery Health and aims to reduce the user’s carbon footprint by scheduling charging to occur when the local grid is more likely to use cleaner energy sources. The feature is opt-out by default, meaning most users will find it enabled unless they manually disable it, and users can bypass charging pauses if they receive a notification. While the individual impact of charging an iPhone at optimized times is small for any single device, the speaker highlights the potential cumulative effect across millions of devices, which could contribute to energy savings on a larger scale. The video concludes by framing this as a rare environmental win that might be showcased at Apple’s next keynote, despite ongoing debates about broader tech industry environmental practices.
Topics · technology · environment · mobile_devices · product_news
Questions answered
- What is Clean Energy Charging on iPhone and how does it work?
- Clean Energy Charging is a Battery Health setting that schedules charging to occur when the local grid is likely to have access to cleaner energy, thereby reducing the device's carbon footprint. It is enabled by default and can be overridden by the user.