Submitted 6 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Apple will be able to update iPhones while they’re still in the box, report claims::No more updating right after you unpack your iPhone.
Wouldn’t this require the phones in the box to be charged above some percentage? Also if they can turn it on wirelessly I can only assume it’s using BLE and I hope the feature is off once the user sets the phone up.
Aren’t they already? When I got mine it was charged to 100% already.
Maybe an extension of wireless charging? Do iphones not have that yet?
Nope, the current box arrangement and phone orientation in the box inhibits wireless charging.
I don’t think that wireless charging is fast enough to counter a phone updating yet, tbh… And constant charging would deteriorate the battery.
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.
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)… 😅
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.
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.
Good questions… Sounds … problematic at best.
No more tedious updating after unpacking the new iphone, instead you can now tediously wait already after buying it while we do it for you through the box.
At least make us laugh with the apple trolling. This doesn’t even make sense. The whole point of it is to avoid this.
So they’re going to update the entire stock one by one it without charging it every update? The only other way is to only do it one time when the phobe is bought. Which will take the sane amount of time in the store… 🤷♂️
So, when I had google fi, the phones I got from them would already arrive signed into my account, I always wondered how it was done.
IMEI number linked to your account, maybe.
The same with Firetv.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
They’ll only update in the box. So you have to keep the box for the life of the phone and every so often put it back in so it’ll update.
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