Apple’s Clean Energy Charging feature for iPhones. Apple Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. If you have an Apple iPhone and haven’t updated your iOS in a while, you might want to do so now to take advantage of a new clean energy charging feature. Announced by Apple in October this year for phones with iOS 16.1 or greater (iOS is currently available up to version 16.2), the clean energy charging option is a setting that will automatically draw energy from cleaner energy sources while the phone charges, when available. It does so by tracking your long-term charging habits and analyzing the local grid. The feature, available under “Battery” then “Battery Health & Charging” in an…
