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.djhorn18 t1_ja2nvca wrote
Reply to comment by RandomUser132621 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
Its not necessarily things like solar/wind. Its just when the plant forcasts that its carbon output is going to be lower - probably due to lower overall usage or something.
When you have this option enabled, your phone uses your GPS location to pull data from your local energy generator about their predicted carbon outputs over the next X hours - and uses that information + its ML about your charging habits to determine when it should charge your device.
I don’t know if this information apple pulls is publicly available or not.
Heres the learn more section that appears on your phone near the setting.
a2dam t1_ja63cl4 wrote
This information is publicly available. Here's some info for California, for example: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO
FlaaffyPink t1_ja3ew9c wrote
It says “during times of cleaner energy production.” That seems to imply that the production of the energy is cleaner, meaning it’s cleaner on a per-unit basis, not that the total emissions of the grid are lower. This might just be highly misleading language. I would like to see clarification from Apple.
stevejobs7 t1_ja3p5k7 wrote
Can somebody contact apple, see if they clarify?
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