Power Reserve gets more capable
Many of us rely on our smartphones to know the time, rather than a watch, but with phones running out of battery relatively fast there’s always a risk that we’ll be unable to see the time when it might be important, and with iOS 18, Apple has a partial solution to this problem.
As spotted by Reddit users (via MacRumors), with iOS 18 your phone can show you the time in small text at the top-left corner of the screen, even when it has essentially run out of battery.
We say ‘essentially’ because of course this wouldn’t work if the battery was completely flat, but the iPhone’s Power Reserve feature holds back the last trickle of life to ensure that your iPhone is still findable, and to let you make contactless payments and access digital keys, even when there’s not enough battery left to use the other functions.
