By installing iOS 18 you will no longer miss an appointment because, even if the battery runs out completely, you can continue to read the time on the screen. It is a small but advantageous innovation of the new operating system which draws on the same capacity as the Apple Watch Ultra, which precisely since its debut has been able to continue to “only” make the clock, keeping time even when it happens that the battery drains sooner than expected.
On the surface it may seem like a minor change, but it has the sweet taste of that attention to detail what we like so much about Apple. Because with intelligence it has managed to make a device still useful which, without energy in the battery, can no longer be turned on, today it becomes a temporary paperweight.
What changes, and how does it do it
And instead in a few months, when we can all install the public and stable version of iOS 18, in situations like these it will continue to provide us with at least one useful piece of information, the current time (in the top left corner), thus giving us a fixed point to orient ourselves in everyday life until we have the time and way to connect it to an energy source, whether it is a wall socket, a power bank or the USB output of a television, it doesn’t matter.
[iOS 18 DB1] You can now see the time even after the phone is dead or charging.
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It should be remembered that for some time now – to be precise, starting from iOS 15 – when the iPhone is turned off manually or turns off on its own because the battery has run out, in reality the energy doesn’t go completely to zero. In fact, Apple keeps a pinch of it aside to allow you to track its location via the Find My network, so if someone steals it from you (by the way, if it happens to you, here’s what you should do) they won’t be able to stop you from letting them find out where is found.
And these crumbs of energy, from iOS 18, they will do one more thing: tell you what time it is.
