This time, the feature that you didn’t know your iPhone was enabling is a clean charging feature. Clean Energy Charging, introduced in iOS 16.1, “selectively charg[es] when lower carbon emission electricity is available” in your region. It also analyzes your user habits to make sure that your device is fully charged before you expect to use it a lot. So if you’re at home and you plug in your phone during a non-optimal charging time for environmental reasons, it will wait until a more optimal time to charge, unless it thinks you’re going to need to use it soon.
Why are people mad at Apple now?
Answer: For not disclosing an automatic iPhone feature.
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Apple has come under fire from some iPhone users recently for a feature introduced in the latest iOS operating system that is turned on automatically, without the user’s consent. If this story sounds familiar, that’s because you’ve heard it before. In 2017, news came to light that Apple was automatically enabling a feature that throttled performance of older iPhones in order to preserve battery life, without informing the users.
This time, the feature that you didn’t know your iPhone was enabling is a clean charging feature. Clean Energy Charging, introduced in iOS 16.1, “selectively charg[es] when lower carbon emission electricity is available” in your region. It also analyzes your user habits to make sure that your device is fully charged before you expect to use it a lot. So if you’re at home and you plug in your phone during a non-optimal charging time for environmental reasons, it will wait until a more optimal time to charge, unless it thinks you’re going to need to use it soon.
Not everyone is thrilled, though. It’s not the environmental considerations that they’re angry about, it’s the fact that Apple turned the feature on by default without telling them. One unhappy user tweeted, “This is how the government will control your life,” and another said that they had “PROUDLY disabled it.” Some, though, aren’t so upset over it, with popular tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee stating the feature is “a win for the environment.”
This time, the feature that you didn’t know your iPhone was enabling is a clean charging feature. Clean Energy Charging, introduced in iOS 16.1, “selectively charg[es] when lower carbon emission electricity is available” in your region. It also analyzes your user habits to make sure that your device is fully charged before you expect to use it a lot. So if you’re at home and you plug in your phone during a non-optimal charging time for environmental reasons, it will wait until a more optimal time to charge, unless it thinks you’re going to need to use it soon.
