According to this NintendoLife Article Nintendo finally introduced these battery life enhancing setting several mobile devices use for years.
by gazillrey
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According to this NintendoLife Article Nintendo finally introduced these battery life enhancing setting several mobile devices use for years.
by gazillrey
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Is it just me or does this sound really useless? Like, why would I want to keep my battery at 90%
It’s been also proven that keeping battery at 100% doesn’t do much? I’m genuinely asking, it’s not something I would probably use ever.
Shouldn’t it be 80%? why 90?
Why finally? Handhelds don’t do this pretty much universally even the Steam deck only just a few days ago introduced this option in the Beta OS build, because unlike smartphones who usually go through an entire cycle every day, the stress on a handheld battery is already lower. Not to mention, just because your screen says 100% doesn’t mean the battery is at 100% capacity, just like 0% isn’t actually 0%.
Could people stop trying to make everything around the NS2 some scandal or clickbaity crap? It’s not just getting old but if something reazbad happens, novody gives an F anymore, talking about not believing the boy who cries wolves.
*”The Big N pulls out yet another reveal.”*
It must be miserable to live life turning any good thing into a negative thing
Also for Switch 1? Hello!!!
Nintendo advertises thing for idiots that don’t understand but request anyway because there is no shame anymore.
Some fucking redditor grabs it and attempts to spin it as a negative late to the party thing displaying their ignorance loud and bright for everyone to see. All while thinking shitting on all things Nintendo is free Karma ’round these parts.
It’s not a phone, it’s probably not going to dissipate full battery daily, nor is there a high probability that 100% is really a completely to the brim battery charge. You’re also not going to leave this thing parked in a EV super charging spot so the time it takes to top off the charge isn’t denying anyone else the public charger…
Is it really “late” if they haven’t really introduced any new hardware since this became more common?
Why not just cap it at 90% and let the user know that’s 100%?
My Switch sat in its dock 100% of the time until about 6 months ago when my son finally started taking it on longer drives in the car. That battery still last a solid 4-5 hours of running Minecraft and it’s a launch edition.
I get people being upset at the tone of the post, but I’m kind of confused why people are shitting on the feature in general. Like, yeah it’s not a phone. But it’s just true that batteries don’t like being at 100%, this is only a good thing for them to include this as an optional feature, even if your use case does not require it.
At least better late than never. The switch is hitting the age where a lot of older models’ batteries are gonna start completely failing, so being able to have this now would allow the system to last longer before resulting in replacing the battery.
Oh neat.
I mean mine is never leaving it’s dock so I guess this matters not to me
Does this mean the battery is worse comparatively than the original Switch? The Switch was designed to sit at max charge for years but the degrade in battery life is negligible
I’ve never liked that setting on my phones, so I won’t use it ony Switch 2.
bro calm down, be glad they’re adding it at all
Lately when I charge my switch to 100%, when I turn it on the next day it’ll be at 97% or 98% around last year. Nowadays it starts at 92%…
This is objectively a good feature to have but it’s also a really silly feature with basically no use case, you’re prematurely capping your battery life at around what it would probably end up anyways.
Better late than never!
Now I need a blue light filter.
on how many subs are u gonna spam this, OP?
If it substantially helped it would be a default setting.
They added it because not having it yields a negative image and the customer is always right.
Is this only to prolong the battery life? Any other benefit?
I’ve never I guess played a console long enough for the battery to give out.
This is nice and all but if we have to worry about charging stuff to 90% for all our electrical devices, I think it will be too much of a hassle. The Switch’s battery is near immortal anyway, so I would rather not go into this rabbit hole.
Giving the option to people is nice though!
I’m about 50-50 in going handheld/undocked and docked with my current Switch. So if I do get a Switch 2 IDK how much I would use that function. But it’s definetly nice to have and use while docked, and I can charge it up to full if I need to take it out soon or need to charge in handheld mode.
Charging to 80% became a feature “The feature that allows users to limit iPhone charging to a specific percentage, like 80%, was introduced with the iPhone 15 models in September 2023”
This writer is stupid android system level option came 2024 too