You mean you cannot understand why the iPhone is saving 99.99% of all users the extra work of having to disable that low power mode once the phone is fully charged again? The number of people that would want to run their phone permanently in low power mode must be minuscule compared to those that only switch it on when they see they are getting low on battery too early (or anticipate that they might run low on a particular day).
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How to Save Battery Life in iOS 9 With Low Power Mode
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If you want your phone to not make any noise, vibrate or flash the screen (Do Not Disturb) and to have no Background App Refresh activity, putting it into Airplane mode should achieve that as well.
You mean you want to automate the going into airplane mode as you can do with the Do Not Disturb mode instead of having to do this manually?
Have you tried "Do Not Disturb"? I have mine set from 11pm to 6am and it actually works great, screen doesn't seem to come on either. It just doesn't shut of the radios for maximum power savings, but it will stop wrong numbers and spam.
Do you think Apple would ever let people fiddle with such fine-grained settings? They might add an option to automatically enable it but at power level chosen by Apple (eg, 20%). Look at the 30-day period after which deleted images are completely removed, could you imagine Apple offering a setting to change this number?
Sure, but I for one put my phone into DND instead of Airplane Mode a lot of times when (say, at a movie) I'm not going to be looking at it, but also want it to be all synced up when I do get back to it.
For me silent mode (aka, vibrate) is perfectly fine for movies. Off the top of my head I cannot remember a single instance when I had even noticed a vibration notification while in a movie theatre.
Irrelevant to my point. Keep using vibrate, my friend, nobody's stopping you.
My point was that in Do Not Disturb, it might be desirable to also go into Low Power mode at the same time.
If you prefer Do Not Disturb to Airplane mode to keep things synced up, as you just said, Low Power mode won't allow for that as it stops all Background App Refresh activity.
Wish I could create exceptions. I'd like to keep background activity enabled for a specific app, an activity tracker.
It's not like I can hit all the triggers this mode offers myself, think under-clocking.
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It's not like I can hit all the triggers this mode offers myself, think under-clocking.
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You can ask Siri to turn low power mode on and it works try it yourself
if it is turned off at 80%, all you gotta do it turn it back on... but it would be nice to be able to have it come back on at 25% or something.
i turn mine on when in my purse or when I need it to charge a tad faster(not sure if it helps tho)
i turn mine on when in my purse or when I need it to charge a tad faster(not sure if it helps tho)
Depends on how often you use it. I only use it here and there throughout the day and compared to some other apps, like Safari or Messages or Phone its usage for me is practically nothing (while Safari could often be around 70% with a few hours of on screen time).
There should be an option to have it enabled permanently.
If you are getting a 6S and are happy with the performance of the iPhone 6 but could do with a little more battery life then one would benefit by keeping low power mode on all the time, since the 6S will have the performance of the iPhone 6 with low power mode activated. Geekbench scores:
iPhone 6S
Single: 2413
Multi: 4293
iPhone 6S Low Power Mode (Approx.)
Single: 1616
Multi: 2704
iPhone 6
Single: 1609
Multi: 2879
If you are getting a 6S and are happy with the performance of the iPhone 6 but could do with a little more battery life then one would benefit by keeping low power mode on all the time, since the 6S will have the performance of the iPhone 6 with low power mode activated. Geekbench scores:
iPhone 6S
Single: 2413
Multi: 4293
iPhone 6S Low Power Mode (Approx.)
Single: 1616
Multi: 2704
iPhone 6
Single: 1609
Multi: 2879
Does it charge your phone quicker with it on? As I found its retry slow but then I took it of and it was slower ?? Xxx
Completely agree. Hell, when iOS 9 came out officially I still had my iPhone 5 so I tried that on permanent low power mode and was 100% happy with the performance so how much performance is going unused in my new 6s I dread to think. For me I think I stopped needing any more performance once I got to the iPhone 4. Interesting to see real iPhone 6s/6s-LowPower/6 figures though; thanks for posting.
I realise that some people need/want the performance but I wish that Apple would add a setting with a performance slider. Most of the stuff that low power mode does (reduced motion, no background apps, no push notifications etc) I have set already so the only extra thing that I can't get except with low power mode is CPU downclocking (or probably more likely capping max clock speed). I would love a slider so that I could set how aggressively that is done so that I could experiment with performance vs battery life tradeoffs and set it how I want it, a bit like how many people set the brightness as a trade-off between super-bright read in sunlight setting vs saving battery.
For me the big problem with engaging low power mode permanently (and it can be done of course simply by turning it on via the settings as soon as the phone is taken off the charger) is that it sets screen auto-lock to 30 seconds and that setting can't be over-ridden so the screen dims after 22 seconds of use. That's just not enough time for what I tend to use my phone for and it gets really annoying having to tap the screen or scroll up and down a bit every 15 seconds to keep the screen alive if I'm reading something.