OnePlus showcased its Concept One smartphone featuring an “invisible camera” at the CES 2020 today. The firm also announced a new feature called Optimized Charging via its forum, which is aimed at making phone batteries last longer by changing the way they charge.
When you put your OnePlus phone to charge before going to bed, it will refill its power cell to 80 percent of its maximum capacity and then temporarily stop. A hundred minutes before you usually wake up, your first alarm or event of the day, the phone will then charge to full. The idea here is that by preventing the battery from staying at full capacity for too long, OnePlus can slow how quickly it degrades over time.
To enable this feature, users need to open the Settings app, tap Battery and turn on Optimized Charging. Battery icons can intimate users if this feature is already active, and “a muted notification will be displayed in the drop-down notification to help users understand this state and to provide a toggle to end this state (resume charging).” Users can disable this feature by tapping the “Continue Charging” button to charge to 100% immediately.
OnePlus plans to enhance this feature so it will be able to detect “sleep schedule changes due to a time zone change or a late night out on the weekend.” For users who are worried about the firm getting access to their sleep data, OnePlus has stated that the sleep schedule is stored only on your phone.
