A few significant new features introduced in iOS 16 include upgrades to iMessage and brand-new personalization choices for the Lock Screen. One of the more well-liked upgrades is the ability to enable haptic feedback for your iPhone’s keyboard in addition to other headline features. Although Apple warns that using this option could reduce your iPhone’s battery life in a recently released support document.
In the support document, Apple outlines how the new keyboard haptics feature changes your iPhone: “Your iPhone keyboard can make a sound or vibrate as you type.” As we’ve explained in the past, you can enable this feature in the Settings app under the “Keyboard Feedback” option in the “Sounds & Haptics” menu.
At the bottom of the support document, however, Apple has a small warning for users who enable keyboard haptics: “Turning on keyboard haptics might affect the battery life of your iPhone.”
The company doesn’t offer any additional detail on just how big of a battery life impact keyboard haptics might have on your iPhone. Realistically, we expect any battery life impact to be minor, but it’s something you could try toggling off if you’ve experienced battery drain issues since installing iOS 16.
Interestingly, despite Apple saying keyboard haptics might affect your iPhone’s battery life, the feature is not (yet?) integrated with Low Power Mode. This means that if you enable Low Power Mode on your iPhone, keyboard haptics won’t be disabled even though they may drain your iPhone’s battery.
