Manzana has included a special feature to charge the iPhone battery using clean energy in order to reduce the carbon footprint.
The function Charge with Clean Energy detects and calculates the amount of carbon emissions from power plants near your current location and uses that information to charge the battery using energy produced with friendly methods.
In addition, it issues notifications to indicate which moments are ideal to start charging in periods of higher production of clean energy.
Although this function came to iphone from 2022 with the launch of the OS Currently, users began to criticize the charging method because they consider that it makes their devices charge slower.
This specification does not appear on the support page of Manzana dedicated to this function, but it does indicate that the iPhone will prefer to be charged “during the hours of Energy production cleaner.”
On the other hand, Apple also indicates that this way of charging their cell phones is activated by default once it is installed. iOS 16 on the device.
The Cupertino company also indicates that the relationship between charging habits, places where you spend more time or where the device is connected regularly, in addition to the hours, serve to establish the most appropriate times to recharge the iPhone battery. . Cell phones will be able to take advantage of the periods of time in which the carbon emissions of nearby areas are lower to avoid generating a greater consumption of electric current generated from unsustainable sources.
How to turn off charge mode with Clean Energy
Even though this feature is turned on automatically instead of letting people decide whether or not to use it, the Charge with Clean Energy It can be disabled by following these steps, which include, but are not required, possibly disabling other services related to the operation of this feature:
– Go to Settings > Battery > health and load battery and turn off the ‘Clean Power Charge’ option.
– Go to Settings > Privacy and security > location services and disable the ‘Location Services’ option.
– Go to Settings > Privacy and security > Location services > system services and disable system customization.
– Go to Settings> Privacy and security> Location services> System services> significant locations and turn off the Significant Locations option.
iPhones with the Clean Power Charge feature can receive data on carbon emissions from nearby areas.
In the event that users have previously decided to disable this feature but wish to re-enable it, they should make sure to enable all of these features so that this feature can function properly as directed by Apple on their Web page official.
Currently this feature is enabled only for USA although it has not been specified if Apple plans to expand it to other territories, either in North America or Europe.
