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TL;DR
- OnePlus is engaged on a brand new battery well being characteristic that may mechanically activate battery charging safety when your gadget has been charging for too lengthy.
- We’ve noticed code associated to the in-development characteristic within the newest Android 15 beta replace for OnePlus units.
- The characteristic goals to decelerate battery growing old when customers cost their units for prolonged intervals.
Replace, July 2, 2024 (11:00 PM ET): The unique model of this text erroneously centered on the battery charging restrict as the brand new characteristic. Nonetheless, that’s not new, as customers can already manually toggle the charging restrict as per their wants. The brand new, upcoming characteristic is that this 80% battery charging restrict will activate mechanically (with out consumer enter) if the gadget has been charging for too lengthy. The error is regretted, and the article has been up to date to appropriately mirror this transformation.
OnePlus is engaged on a brand new battery well being characteristic that might roll to customers with the Android 15 replace. The characteristic will mechanically restrict charging to 80% when a tool has been charging for prolonged intervals.
An APK teardown helps predict options which will arrive on a service sooner or later primarily based on work-in-progress code. Nonetheless, it’s doable that such predicted options might not make it to a public launch.
Code noticed in OnePlus’ second Android 15 beta launch (h/t: 1NormalUsername on X, previously Twitter) factors in the direction of extra adjustments coming to Oxygen OS’s “Charging Restrict” characteristic.
At present, in Oxygen OS 14, customers can select to restrict their gadget to 80% battery to try to decelerate battery growing old. In a future Oxygen OS launch, probably Oxygen OS 15, OnePlus units will mechanically restrict themselves to 80% battery charging if they’ve been left plugged in for too lengthy. There shall be no consumer enter wanted for this.
Listed below are the strings highlighting how the characteristic may match upon launch:
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Your gadget has been charging for too lengthy. To keep away from harm to the battery, "Charging restrict" has been turned on.
To decelerate battery growing old, the battery stage will all the time be stored at 80% whereas charging. This characteristic will mechanically activate when your gadget has been charging for too lengthy.
To decelerate battery growing old, the battery stage will all the time be stored at 80% whereas charging. Observe that the upcoming characteristic is just not the identical because the Optimized Charging characteristic presently accessible on OnePlus units. Whereas Optimized Charging additionally limits the battery stage to 80%, it predicts consumer conduct and tops up the remainder of the battery 100 minutes earlier than the consumer is prone to unplug the gadget.
In distinction, Charging Restrict will all the time preserve the battery stage at 80% whereas plugged in, making it extra helpful for many who completely preserve their telephones linked to a charger. Customers have a toggle for this characteristic proper now, however sooner or later, the cellphone may additionally take this choice for itself.
