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Battery impact of App Sandbox
App Sandbox is a small SwiftUI surface. File pickers use the user-selected read-write entitlement rather than a blanket home-folder grant. Disable it if you want the lightest possible notch.
Last updated 2026-03-13
What costs energy
Live polling and media artwork cost more than a static chip. App Sandbox should sleep when unused.
How to lighten it
Turn off unused live activities in Settings so App Sandbox is not in the stack all day.