iPhone: Anyway of enabling auto power on/off?

Blackout · 27 Mar 2009 at 12:16

As per the title really. What I want to be able to do is have the iPhone switch off at a certain time of night and switch back on again at a certain time in the morning.

I can do this with my Blackberry (which helps to preserve precious battery life!).

Any ideas?

Blackout · 28 Mar 2009 at 08:58

Darn - Seems a bit of an oversight if you ask me.

Seems like it would be a good way to further extend battery life (especially as for iPhones, that is not exactly something they have in spades!).

Blackout · 28 Mar 2009 at 16:29

Not normally a problem with phones that have a good few days battery life, but with the iPhone, it is a bit limited (battery wise...well mine is) and especially as I use it so much would be good to preserve power when it is not needed (i.e. I am in bed asleep).

As I say it really makes a difference on the blackberry. You are right though, it does make sense to charge the phone every night (largely because you have to), but there are times when you don't have the wherewithal or just forget...if (by auto-off and auto-on) it prolonged life an extra 5 hours I can't see how that would be a bad thing.

...even good for the environment too...saving those extra few pennies worth of leccy, and if lots of people did it, maybe a few trees too.

Blackout · 31 Mar 2009 at 09:47

Yeah, I know I can work round it (and most do). I could even manually switch it off and on. Its just that this is the whole point, it requires manual interaction, which requires me to remember to charge it/turn it off/on etc.

Now I am not the worlds most organised person it has to be said, and therefore I was hoping there was a more intelligent way to do ot ala my works Blackberry.

Oh well, looks like it can't be done for now, will keep fingers crossed for a future upgrade that addresses this.

Thanks for confirming this one and all, if nothing else it allows me to cross that one off the list of things to try and work out (for now).