{"id":51106,"date":"2026-02-28T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51106"},"modified":"2026-02-28T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:32:31","slug":"macos-26-4-charge-limit-and-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/28\/macos-26-4-charge-limit-and-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 26.4: Charge Limit and Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/16\/macos-26-4-brings-battery-charge-limit-to-the-mac-and-shortcuts\/\">Dylan McDonald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/16\/macos-26-4-brings-battery-charge-limit-to-the-mac-and-shortcuts\/\">\n<p>The Charge Limit feature, which lets you set a maximum charge to help extend battery health, was previously only available on iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/16\/apple-releases-ios-26-4-beta-1-for-iphone\/\">iOS 26.4<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/16\/apple-releases-macos-26-4-beta-1-heres-what-to-expect\/\">macOS 26.4 betas<\/a> bring Charge Limit to the Shortcuts app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I like the current feature to automatically restore the charge limit the next day, so I don&rsquo;t forget. But there are two problems:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>If I know I&rsquo;ll need more battery life tomorrow, I can&rsquo;t turn off the charge limit before I go to bed because it will turn it back on at 6 AM. What I really want is for it to stay off for 24 hours.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>It still takes a bunch of taps to go into the Battery settings and turn off the charge limit in the first place.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Shortcuts support should make the second part easier, and perhaps it can also be used to turn the limit back off that first morning.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/26\/iphone-80-charging-limit\/\">iPhone 80% Charging Limit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan McDonald: The Charge Limit feature, which lets you set a maximum charge to help extend battery health, was previously only available on iPhone and iPad. [&#8230;] Additionally, the new iOS 26.4 and macOS 26.4 betas bring Charge Limit to the Shortcuts app. I like the current feature to automatically restore the charge limit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-02-28T20:32:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"d853916d-20a0-4a14-9af4-0c1dfc685442","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-02-28T20:32:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2FORbSCgShSa9Awd_GhUQg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,31,2741,30,2742,1686],"class_list":["post-51106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-batterylife","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-shortcuts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51107,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106\/revisions\/51107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}