Apple’s iOS 16 is available for iPhones and it brings a lot of new features along with new ways to interact with the software. What it adds is keyboard haptics as well. Turning on Haptics on your iPhone’s keyboard basically adds vibration feedback when you tap to type using the on-screen keys. But it also means that the haptics motor is now being used more frequently on iPhones than before and could potentially affect battery life. To clarify doubts, Apple has now cautioned users that turning on this feature may affect battery life.
Apple steered clear of adding vibration feedback to its software keyboard on any of its mobile devices until the latest version of iOS 16, which was recently made available on older and more recent iPhone models. one Apple supporting document clarified that this affects battery life. While the main purpose of the support page is to explain the feature and how to go about enabling it, there’s also some fine print at the bottom, clarifying that “Turning on Keyboard Haptics may affect your iPhone’s battery life.” “
While this should clear up any doubts users may have about keyboard haptics consuming battery life, Apple hasn’t specified which iPhones this applies to, so it’s safe to assume that this applies to all iPhone models. Affects new, recent and old.
Haptics feedback for the software keyboard on the iPhone is turned off by default on recent and older iPhone models. To turn it on, users need to open the Settings app, then tap on Sounds & Haptics, and then enter the keyboard feedback menu and switch on the Haptic toggle.
Vibration feedback has been present on Android smartphones for a long time, but has never completely affected battery life as devices running Google’s software have always had bigger batteries. While Apple’s (initially) adoption of a smaller and (later) slimmer form factor also adds up to larger displays, it often means that older iPhones won’t have enough room to fit large batteries. With more power efficient processors on recent iPhones this shouldn’t be a problem, but given that battery capacity still hasn’t gotten any bigger on regular-sized iPhone models (thanks to good hardware efficiency and software optimization), a There is a chance that this new add-on feature could have a mild impact on battery life on the non-plus or non-max models.
In addition to haptic feedback on the keyboard for the iPhone, iOS 16 also brings a new lock screen, an improved focus mode, and the ability to edit and send messages.
