I’m generally an anti-notifications guy and have lately disabled most of the notifications on my phone. I often decline apps sending me notifications just to avoid being spammed continuously. I’ve set up a nice system with ‘Focus Mode’ on my iPhone to prevent being distracted by most of the noise while in a certain mode. Some notifications however, are always allowed since they don’t disturb me and rather keep me updated stuff that are important.

As the main screen of Ear (1) app don’t always show the battery status of the case as lid is often closed (and I rarely open the app to check) I’m often getting lost in when I need to connect my case to power.

I’ve found myself needing to charge them twice in last weeks unaware that the case needed charging - which isn’t bad at all! However, I got lost twice on important phone calls where I was commuting, so both occations my case was out of power (and so my buds as well….) so I had to join a conference call holding the phone to my ear since I didn’t carry any spare cable headphones..

What would you think of pushing alerts to the user to remind about charging, just like AirPods does by alerting about low battery level? I have started to use widgets more and more together with ‘Focus Mode’, which could be neat?! Any other ideas on how to not run out of battery except being very good at charging them more often?


(I know these only show for AirPods with low battery in buds and not battery status of the case, as well as when they’re connected)

I think some kind of reminder (other than the sound effects of buds starting to go low on battery) would be good. Do you agree or would that just be a notification you would turn of after a while?

Would you appreciate an alert notifying about the case having low battery?

Yeah, I loose track of my charging cycles. Alerts would help me!
Nah, I keep track of my charging cycles. Alerts would just annoy me.
Idk about notifications, but a widget would be nice!
I constantly charge them so loosing power isn't an issue.
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    Kastello That would indeed be a nice feature, easily accessible “toggle to disable” alerts of this kind. Great feedback!

    For a wide audience, do you think alerts should be on or off by default?

      FilipJacobson

      Sounds like a good option but should come with an option to enable/disable.

      Till the feature is introduced, the notification battery status (screenshot) works good for me. For case battery, i track the LED light colour. As soon as it turns Red/orange, I put it on charge.

          arpan2308 Pro tip, havent paid too much attention to the LED yet! Will definitely keep my eyes more on it then to indicate when it needs charge! 👍

          arpan2308 the notification battery status (screenshot) works good for me.

          That is neat. On iOS the notch menu unfortunately hides the information about the battery status for the buds. I’d have to scroll down from top of screen to make it visible! Not horrible though, since buds also make a sound when running out of juice 🧃

          Regular view not showing buds:

          View when scrolling down to show menu bar I can see the battery status of my buds:

          Had to hand paint the notch since it didn’t show on the screenshot, lol

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