APPLE fans have found a way to make iPhone’s smart battery-saving feature even better.
It’s the perfect solution if your iPhone It’s always running out of charge.
The trick works by setting your iPhone to automatically turn on Low Power Mode when it reaches a certain battery percentage.
Low Power Mode is a standard iOS feature that limits parts of your iPhone to preserve battery life.
Apple explains: “When Low Power Mode is turned on, your iPhone or iPad will last longer before you need to charge it, but some characteristics may take longer to update or complete.
“Additionally, some tasks may not work until you turn off Low Power Mode or until you charge your iPhone or iPad to 80% or more.”
Here’s what Apple says will be reduced or affected while Low Power Mode is active:
- 5G (except for video streaming) on iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 models
- Auto-lock (default is 30 seconds)
- Screen brightness
- Screen refresh rate (limited to 60 Hz) on iPhone and iPad models with ProMotion display
- Some visual effects
- iCloud Photos (Temporarily Paused)
- Automatic downloads
- Email search
- Background app update
You can enable Low Power Mode easily by going to Settings > Battery.
Alternatively, you can go to Settings > Control Center > Customize to add it to your Control Center.
Then you can simply swipe to Control Center and activate it from there.
You’ll know Low Power Mode is on because the battery icon in the status bar will turn yellow.
AUTOMATIC!
Typically, your iPhone will prompt you to turn on Low Power Mode if the battery life drops to 20%.
But savvy iPhone owners have found a way to automatically turn it on at any battery percentage.
Why do batteries get worse over time?
Here’s what you need to know…
- Most gadgets run on lithium-ion batteries
- Over time, the amount of charge this type of battery can hold decreases.
- This means you need to charge your device more often because they hold less charge
- Batteries have two electrode points – the cathode and the anode
- To charge a battery, ions inside the battery are forced from the cathode to the anode
- When you use a battery, it moves in the reverse direction
- This process wears down the anode structure, reducing its ability to function properly.
- But the process also accumulates a type of salt on the cathode during charging.
- As this buildup increases, the battery will accept less charge over time
- It is estimated that between 500 and 1,000 full charge cycles will reduce the battery’s maximum capacity by about 20%.
Writing in a Reddit thread, one said: “I set a shortcut that activates 40%.”
Another said: “I set up an automation to activate mine by 40%. It also works as a reminder to charge my phone. I feel like 20% is a little low.”
One added: “Same here. As soon as it drops below 40%, it activates.”
And one added: “I created an automation to enable it when the battery is below 50%.”
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Apple users are doing this by taking advantage of the iPhone’s Shortcuts feature.
This is an app that allows you to automate certain actions on your iPhone.
Go to the Shortcuts app and search for “battery”.
Then set up a shortcut based on the trigger: “When battery level drops below XX%”.
Next you’ll want to search for “Low Power Mode” and set that as the action for the shortcut.
When you’re done, save it and you’ll be protected from running out of charge so quickly.
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