| That 80% option on iPhone 15, which Apple describes thuly: > With iPhone 15 models, you can choose between Optimized Battery Charging, 80% Limit, and None. > When you choose 80% Limit, your iPhone will charge up to about 80 percent and then stop charging. If the battery charge level gets down to 75 percent, charging will resume until your battery charge level reaches about 80 percent again. > With 80% Limit enabled, your iPhone will occasionally charge to 100 percent to maintain accurate battery state-of-charge estimates. is fairly easy to achieve on other iPhones and on iPads. Plug your charger into a smart plug that can be controlled from Apple Shortcuts. Shortcuts lets you make automations that trigger on battery level. Make an automation that triggers on battery level goes about 80% that turns off the smart plug. Make another that triggers on battery level goes below 75% that turns on the smart plug. I've been doing this for a while (just the 80% part) and it works great. It wasn't my idea. I saw someone here a few weeks ago mention it, and they got it from some blog. I'm using TP-Link Tapo Mini Smart Wi-Fi Plugs [1]. I don't have a Matter hub so had to install the Tapo app to use them, but the Tapo app is controllable from Shortcuts. I even get the "occasionally charge to 100% behavior", because sometimes Shortcuts seems to lose the ability to talk to the Tapo app. :-) Opening Tapo and turning something on or off seems to fix it. If you don't want the "charge to 100%" behavior make a Shortcut to turn on the plug. When you are about to put the device on the charger use that shortcut to turn on the plug. It that works you know Shortcuts and Tapo are still working together. If you buy smart plugs, I recommend getting ones with the same current and power rating as your outlets, which would be 15 A and 1875 W for a typical US home. There are smart plugs with much lower power limits meant just for lights. Those would be fine for a phone or tablet charger but then you've got remember that you can't use them for higher loads. [1] https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Tapo-Compatible-Certified-P12... |