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Basmatireis t1_ja307e6 wrote

Reply to comment by mmcdermid in If you noticed your iPhone is charging a little slower it may be due to a new setting Apple added in iOS 16.1 — Clean Energy Charging. With it turned on, iOS will only recharge the iPhone's battery when the electrical grid uses cleaner energy sources like solar or wind. by RonSwazy

Multiply that by the amount of active smartphones in the world…

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drive2fast t1_ja47z6e wrote

I remember someone did the math on a windows update that caused computers to use like 0.1-0.5% more power and America basically had to do the equivalent of adding another nuclear power plant to handle that extra power.

Little things add up.

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RapNVideoGames t1_ja3w5sx wrote

But my phone isn’t charging quick even though I’m usually by a charger

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solinvictus21 t1_ja5gt8a wrote

More like, compare that to the REST of your daily carbon footprint.

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IcyAnything8396 t1_ja3z87q wrote

But it’s only even available in a few select countries, so what difference is it really making?

Edit: Basically just the US….

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D_is_for_Dante t1_ja47niv wrote

Since most people charge their phones over night it doesn’t hurt them if it charged only when clean energy is available.

Would be more interesting to compare that to the additional data transfer caused by the feature.

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IcyAnything8396 t1_ja49meo wrote

It doesn’t hurt, no. But it isn’t really doing/saving that much when it’s only available in one region, and some in this thread have even mentioned it being disabled by default.

There are many other, (better), things Apple could do if they really cared about the environment, but I think we all know that.

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