Bike IQ 1.2.2: Super Dark Mode and a Big Leap in Battery Life
A focused release built around Super Dark Mode. Easier to read in bright sun. Easier on your battery than anything we've shipped.
Super Dark Mode
On the bike, contrast is everything. Glare, sun angle, reflections off a bright sky, anything that raises the ambient light competes with your screen for attention. Super Dark Mode attacks that directly. Black stretches across every surface that isn't showing you a number, a graph, or your map. Your metrics pop against pure black, reading clearly even in harsh midday sun.
On OLED iPhones, the same change unlocks a big battery win. Black pixels on an OLED screen aren't dim, they're off. Every dark section of your ride screen is battery you'll still have at the end of the ride. The visibility win and the battery win come from the same mechanism.
Turn it on from display settings. Leave it on all the time, or save it for long days when visibility and battery both matter most.
Under 7% per hour
On iPhone 17 Pro, a typical ride with Super Dark Mode now draws under 7% of battery per hour. Screen on, GPS active, Bluetooth sensors connected. Not a contrived benchmark. A normal ride.
For years, dedicated bike computers have set the efficiency bar in cycling. Bike IQ is now in that territory. Twelve hours of continuous recording isn't a stretch anymore. It's a normal long day.
Every iPhone sees improvements in 1.2.2, with the biggest gains on the latest hardware.
What's next
1.2.2 is a step, not an end. Battery work continues in future releases, pushing the phone's efficiency in the same direction its hardware is already heading. See our battery life approach for the principles behind the numbers.