Why an iPhone charging feature is facing surprising blowback

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Apple's 'clean energy charging' feature is designed to reduce your carbon footprint, but it faces surprising blowback.

“I believe in feeding trees,” she added.

A support page on Apple’s website spells out how the feature is supposed to work, at least a little: When clean energy charging is enabled and your iPhone is plugged in, it will access a “forecast of carbon emissions in your local energy grid.” There are a few other things to keep in mind about this feature. If you’ve installed Apple’s iOS 16.1 update or newer on your iPhone, clean energy charging is already on unless you’ve specifically turned it off.

“We should demand better transparency and choice for clean energy solutions, or it’s going to backfire,” he added.

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