iPhone users raged on social media after they discovered why their devices have been a bit sluggish on the charging front… ‘Clean Energy Charging’ is a new feature introduced to iOS version 16.1 by Apple to ‘reduce the carbon footprint’ of their iPhone. Like all things ‘environmental’, it’s also a pain in the arse.

When enabled, the setting only charges a person’s iPhone if the energy grid tells the phone that it is being powered by so-called ‘clean’ energies like solar and wind – which means your phone can be plugged into a perfectly good power source and do absolutely nothing, rejecting...