You requested, and we answered your burning iPhone 15 questions

So we thought we’d put all that info collectively in a pleasant little smorgasbord of nerdy tidbits and philosophical pondering and select a couple of favorites within the course of.

For the reason that mute swap goes away, Apple put an indicator within the standing bar so you possibly can test in case your ringer is silenced at a look. However what when you discover it annoying and need it to go away? Nice information: you should have the facility to banish it from sight.

A reader requested when you may swap the important thing body in a Reside Photograph and nonetheless hold the depth map to show it right into a Portrait Mode picture. Think about a world the place you possibly can take an image of your children, decide the body the place they’re really wanting on the digicam, and switch it right into a Portrait Mode picture after the very fact! It’s the dream! However when you can have Reside Pictures and the automated depth map saving function enabled concurrently, you solely get the depth map for the only key body. We had been so shut.

Joe Rossignol from MacRumors stopped by our iPhone 15 Q&A to ask a query about new battery optimization charging choices on the cellphone. It seems that Apple snuck in a brand new setting to restrict charging to 80 %, which can assist prolong the battery’s lifespan… how well timed! Sadly, this setting doesn’t work in our testing to this point.

Wouldn’t it’s good to tie your ringer on / off setting to a spotlight mode? You possibly can on the iPhone 15 Professional or 15 Professional Max, the place it’s now a filter choice on your focus modes in addition to an motion within the Shortcuts app. That’s not the most enjoyable you possibly can have with Shortcuts, however it’s useful.

This Vergecast hotline query is a delight. Begin at 33:35 to listen to Jordan’s query a few theoretical energy battle between two telephones related by USB-C. Deputy editor Dan Seifert received to the underside of this one.