diff --git a/variants/nrf52840/seeed_wio_tracker_L1/variant.h b/variants/nrf52840/seeed_wio_tracker_L1/variant.h
index eee4c2333..9e1df0fa3 100644
--- a/variants/nrf52840/seeed_wio_tracker_L1/variant.h
+++ b/variants/nrf52840/seeed_wio_tracker_L1/variant.h
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ static const uint8_t SCL = PIN_WIRE_SCL;
 #define ADC_MULTIPLIER 2.0
 #define BATTERY_PIN PIN_VBAT // PIN_A7
 #define AREF_VOLTAGE 3.6
+// We rely on the nrf52840 USB controller to tell us if we are hooked to a power supply
+#define NRF_APM
 // ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 //  GPS L76KB
 // ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━