
How to Save Battery Life in iOS 9 With Low Power Mode
Monday September 21, 2015 1:35 pm PDT by Lory Gil
One frequent complaint of smartphone users is the limited amount of battery life our tech devices have. With the constant trend toward making devices thinner and lighter, battery life is a key tradeoff to be considered, and some users find their devices not lasting as long as they'd prefer.
For those pushing their devices to the limit, Apple has added a new feature to iOS 9 that is designed to help you conserve those last few drops of juice when you wont be able to charge your iPhone anytime soon. The new feature is known as Low Power Mode, and it can increase your battery life up to three hours but at the expense of some functions of your device. It is only available on iPhone devices running iOS 9.
Enabling Low Power Mode only takes a few steps.
Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
Select Battery from the menu list.
Toggle Low Power Mode to the On position.
The battery icon will turn yellow to indicate that you are using Low Power Mode.
Low Power Mode reduces your iPhone's performance and cuts out some background activities. For example, mail must be fetched manually, background app refresh is disabled, and motion and brightness are reduced.
Benchmarks have shown the iPhone's CPU performance with Low Power Mode on is significantly reduced in an effort to save on power consumption, so while simple tasks may continue to work just fine on an iPhone in Low Power Mode, more demanding ones may become sluggish.
You don't have to keep Low Power Mode on all of the time; you can manually shut it off whenever you want. However, the general impression of
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