It turns out that this new feature makes the battery in Windows 11 run out quickly!

Through Windows 11 22H2 Moment 3 or Build 22621.1778 which was released through an update KB5026446Microsoft introduced many new features and improvements including the presence of an option to display seconds in the Windows 11 system tray.

Now regarding this feature, reportedly if the user displays the seconds option, the system will take up more battery resources, where the device’s battery will be drained faster than if the user deactivates the new feature.

As a test, Neowin, one of the sources that WinPoin usually makes as the main benchmark, conducts tests directly, using the HP Pavilion x360 in the following scenarios:

Perangkat HP Pavilion x360 dengan spesifikasi 11th Gen Intel Core i3 dan 16GB  RAM di Charge 100%, set brightness ke Max, flight mode diaktifkan, dan kemudian Charger di Disconnect dengan membiarkan perangkat idle hanya membuka stopwatch, dan setelah perangkat mati, Neowin kemudian melakukan hal yang sama pada perangkatnya dengan fitur baru yang telah diaktifkan. 

And based on the test results, it seems that there is a decrease in battery performance of 1,892% between the On feature and the Off feature, here is a comparison chart.

And not only in Windows 11, it turns out that the decrease in battery performance also occurs in Windows 10 with a comparison of the On / off seconds feature.

Now, a decrease in performance and battery life is an option second in the system tray enabled probably because the system will continue to display significantly more seconds which will drain more battery resources.

For desktop users, maybe this isn’t a problem, but for users with devices that have batteries, of course, the decrease in battery life just because this simple feature is a drawback that might be felt a little.

So, have you activated and tried this feature? Comment below guys and give your opinion.

via: Neowin