Comment on Apple will be able to update iPhones while they're still in the box, report claims

asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aren’t they already? When I got mine it was charged to 100% already.

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• xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe an extension of wireless charging? Do iphones not have that yet?

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  • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nope, the current box arrangement and phone orientation in the box inhibits wireless charging.

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    • Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My iPhone 15 came in the box back up, against the outside of the box. I think you could probably line up a wireless charger with a bit of work to get it to charge.

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      • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        With magsafe not even bit of work

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      • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh, then it’s definitely possible

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  • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think that wireless charging is fast enough to counter a phone updating yet, tbh… And constant charging would deteriorate the battery.

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• knotthatone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If they design the process efficiently it shouldn’t burn too much battery to update the system image. The phone just needs to power up, connect to store wifi, apply the image and shut down. Doesn’t even need to power up the screen.

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• doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m assuming they just do it to the latest when you buy them, cause if you do it too many times it will eventually have died in the box. 😅 If do, you wait the same amount of time in the store but without the satisfaction of seeing it update, and if they do them regularly it’ll have the possibility to be 0% battery and not be able to update in the box anymore (which would also be bad for the battery)… 😅

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also my first thought. But then I realized that since they support wireless charging pads, it is possible that they can also be charged while in the box.

  No one wants a new iPhone that comes out of the box at 10% charge. But maybe they can avoid this.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes but then you’re relying on the employees in the Apple store to actually keep the phones on the charging pads so unless there’s one charging pad per phone, they’re going to have to rotate them.

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• scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good questions… Sounds … problematic at best.

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