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I still think they’re in denial that their “Home” product as a whole isn’t going anywhere and still wait for them to just drop it…

That being said - not adding any more examples of “Siri bad because” for my blood pressure staying on normal levels - one thing that also is one more example how hard Apple fail at basic things:

Ok, so there’s this feature that charges your phone until it presumes you’ll need it?

Why on earth does it arbitrarily decide to be finished at 04:00 when I did set an alarm to 06:30?

Why oh why…



I don't see the purpose in this feature even if your alarm was at 4:00. Why wouldn't you keep charging until the user picked his phone off the charger?

One thing you might do is only charge to 80% or 90%, to improve battery lifetime, unless you detected the user is going on a long flight tomorrow and needs it at 100%. But I don't see any reason for the opposite behaviour.


To quote Apple

> Optimized Battery Charging is designed to reduce the wear on your battery and improve its lifespan by reducing the time your iPhone spends fully charged. It is available when Charge Limit is set to 100 percent. When the feature is enabled, your iPhone will delay charging past 80 percent in certain situations.

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108055

The idea is that having the battery sit at 100% charge for an extended period of time is bad for the battery. So the phone charges to 80% immediately and then to 100% a little while before it expects to be unplugged.


TIL! I did not know batteries behaved like that, but given that, it makes sense.


This may be due to the Clean Energy Charging setting, which must make some guesses about your energy provider's usage tier and supplier mix.




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