This probably belongs in the gripes thread, but I find this one especially egregious. After more than a year of complaints, the average Windows 11 user will STILL not be able to figure out how to get rid of the little ‘heart’ icon over the battery.
The Smart Charging Experience:
Step 1: spot little heart over battery
Step 2: click battery icon, which opens power settings. Oh it’s on. No off button?
No link, no nothing. Translation: figure it out yourself! Taking a wild guess that when a consumer then goes to microsoft.com they’re not going to find information about smart charging on the main page.
Final step: use clearvoyance to open the Surface app, expand Smart charging option, and press “Charge to 100%.”
Still not available: a way to resume Smart charging when you return from travel.
Every time I think of trying to get rid of my M1 MacBook Air and M1 iPad Pro 12.9", and get one tablet instead (like that new Asus Z13 Flow…or the proposed SLS with a 4060, I read about stuff like this. Why can’t MS get this ■■■■ right?
Don’t get me wrong, Mac has its own issues and @dstrauss and I have expounded upon (Macpad, where is it?). But basic ■■■■ like sleep and smart charging? That stuff is solved.
Or at least - in their own freaking OS - hotlink from the power settings to the surface app. Instead they send you on a wild goose chase to a page that says ¯_(ツ)_/¯
THIS IS THE ANSWER. Even Mac is guilty of this. They just execute it more effectively. It is about trying to dumb it down for the average user. The problem is life isn’t that simple and then EVERYONE goes to their resident tech person (which is those of us in this forum) to solve why there is a heart on the battery. And then we have to figure out why there is a heart on the battery since we got rid of it so long ago we don’t even remember.
Yet actual useful ideas that we could actually use is not an option.
