• iOS 18 ensures youll always know the time, even when your iPhone

    From TechnologyDaily@1337:1/100 to All on Thu Jun 13 10:15:06 2024
    iOS 18 ensures youll always know the time, even when your iPhone 15 is out of battery

    Date:
    Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:14:30 +0000

    Description:
    The iPhone's Power Reserve feature is getting an upgrade with iOS 18, but
    only for iPhone 15 models.

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    Many of us rely on our smartphones to know the time, rather than a watch, but with phones running out of battery relatively fast there's always a risk that we'll be unable to see the time when it might be important, and with iOS 18 , Apple has a partial solution to this problem.

    As spotted by Reddit users (via MacRumors ), with iOS 18 your phone can show you the time in small text at the top-left corner of the screen, even when it has essentially run out of battery.

    We say essentially because of course this wouldnt work if the battery was completely flat, but the iPhones Power Reserve feature holds back the last trickle of life to ensure your iPhone is still findable and to let you make contactless payments and access digital keys, even when theres not enough battery left to use the other functions on the phone. (Image credit: Reddit / ant_t99) Only on iPhone 15, for some reason

    This Power Reserve feature isnt new, but the addition of a clock to it is. Oddly though, this appears to only work on the iPhone 15 line so if you have an iPhone 14 or older then even with iOS 18 youll have to do without access
    to a clock on your phone when it runs out of juice.

    This is a strange limitation, as we cant imagine what technical reason there would be for it. So it could just be a case of Apple holding back the feature for arbitrary reasons, or perhaps this being a beta the clock will be more widely available in Power Reserve once iOS 18 is finished. Then again, maybe there is a real reason for its absence on older phones, were just not sure what that could be.

    In any case, its worth noting that adding the clock to Power Reserve probably increases the battery drain, albeit negligibly, which might mean your iPhone will truly run out of battery faster with this feature, though the difference there will probably be tiny.

    If you want to try out this feature for yourself and you have a compatible phone then you can download the iOS 18 developer beta now, but for most people wed suggest waiting at least until the public beta, or better yet
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    Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/phones/ios/ios-18-ensures-youll-always-know-the-time -even-when-your-iphone-15-is-out-of-battery


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