Battery charge limiting
Designs for a setting which limits how much the battery is charged, in order to preserve its charge capacity. There's a design already documented for this, here: GNOME/gnome-control-center#2553
However, there are still some outstanding design questions, including:
- What to call the mode? Possibilities include:
- "Battery Charge Limiting"
- "Battery Health"
- "Battery Protection"
- Visuals to indicate when the mode is on - the initial idea was to show a small icon next to the battery icon. It could be a leaf, or a heart.
Relevant Material
- "How to limit Battery Charge in Windows 11/10", an article highlighting the various OEM methods and terms for the feature
iOS "Battery Health" panel under "Battery" settings
- no option to configure threshold level, simply a single switch to disable the optimized charging settings
- iOS displays a notification telling you it's charged your device to an optimal level and is slowing charging and suggests to unplug
Lenovo "Vantage" battery threshold settings
- can disable threshold charging completely
- threshold levels can be set all the way down to 45%
- ties into Windows battery indicator where a leaf-icon is displayed on status icon
Edited by Sam Hewitt