Report: New AI feature should protect iPhone battery

Apple is working on improving its loading optimization for the iPhone battery. The function has been on board since 2019, but is now to be significantly more smarter using AI, reports the Economic news agency Bloomberg. According to the information, the “Ai-Powered Battery Management” with iOS 19 can be expected in September.

Optimized charging is optimized

At the moment it learns Optimized shop Already when a user uses work or the iPhone connects to the power supply – and should prevent the device from being frequently charged because this can protect the battery. “When the function is activated, the iPhone delays the charging process over 80 percent in certain situations,” explains Apple. Machine learning is used to determine your loading housing so that the optimized loading of the battery is only activated if the iPhone predicts that it will be connected to a charger for a longer period of time. “

According to Bloomberg, the new AI battery management goes beyond. With features that are supposed to be part of the Apple intelligence platform, it is to be analyzed how a user uses the iPhone and then “make adjustments to save energy”. That should be quite largely: certain apps or iOS functions would then be assigned less performance. In the future, it will also be shown on the lock screen how long it will take for the battery to be fully charged. The step is another attempt to integrate AI functions into its iOS core areas, said circles to Bloomberg. For this purpose, the group is said to have collected application and battery data from user devices in order to be able to meet appropriate AI forecasts.

Practical questions for the AI

How useful the new AI battery management will be must first show practice. With the previous optimized shop, it may happen that users are partly without fully charged iPhone when changing appointments, because the function is too rigid to stick to the usual plan. Many professionals have therefore deactivated the feature. A AI battery management could also lead to the device being braked in part-even in areas that are important to the user. In connection with partial defects batteries, Apple was already involved in a small scandal: In this case, the group had implemented a power throttle without telling users.

According to Bloomberg, AI battery management should also help to keep the particularly flat “iPhone 17 Air”, which has less space for battery cells than conventional models, to keep in operation for longer. The device is expected in September together with other new iPhone models.