The slew of new features coming to the iPhone this fall is pretty impressive. So much so, that it’s easy to miss out on some of the cooler, smaller features that have just been announced. One of these refers to the battery section on the iPhone. And it could help you to make sure that you, charge your phone optimally.
In the Settings app on the iPhone, the battery section will now show when that iPhone is connected to a slow charger. I mean, whenever I’m charging my iPhone, I always think it must be connected to a slow charger because it’s never quite fast enough. But maybe that’s just me. The new iPhone Settings app will give users extra options when it comes to charging limits and details of charging speeds, shown in the battery usage section.
As spotted by a user on Reddit who was using the developer beta of the software which went live on Monday, June 10, the words slow charger are followed by an information button, though as yet this button doesn’t yield any extra details. That will doubtless change before the software goes on general release in the fall.
As Apple Insider points out, there’s no damage done when you use a slow charger like the 5W charger once supplied with iPhones, except perhaps to your peace of mind if you become impatient.
However, as the iPhone 15 Pro Max, for instance, can be charged at speeds of up to 27 W, a 5 W charger really is a slowcoach, so to have this information at your fingertips could be really useful.
The information is shown in the battery settings with an orange bar instead of a green one, when the charger is slow. You can look at this data over the last 24 hours or the last 10 days. While it’s not yet clear how Apple defines slow, that orange bar will be enough to persuade some to change their charging regime.
Wireless charging is slower than wired, and some wireless charges are slower than others, so again knowledge is power (no pun intended) in this situation.
