One of the new features we highlighted in iOS 9 is an innovative new way to help your iPhone battery make it through a long day. When toggled on, Low Power mode automatically kicks in when your battery level starts to get low, reducing the clock speed of the CPU as well as cutting some background activities.
MacRumors ran some tests in Geekbench 3 to measure the performance reduction when Low Power mode was activated, and found it to reduce the performance of an iPhone by around 40%. This would mean that your iPhone 6 would end up with performance somewhere between that of an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 5s.
Apple tweaked the description of Low Power mode in iOS 9 Beta 2.
Low Power mode temporarily reduces power consumption until you can fully charge your iPhone. When this is on, mail fetch, background app refresh, automatic downloads, and some visual effects are reduced or disabled.
The previous text indicated that motion effects and animated wallpapers are disabled. The battery icon turns yellow when Low Power mode is engaged, and it’s been suggested that battery life could be extended by up to three hours.
In addition to helping you get more from your battery, iOS 9 also helps you make the most of your storage capacity.
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*iPhone 6, not Phone 6.
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Phone is here.
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Android simulation mode!
No. Android automatically cranks UP clock speeds whenever running benchmark apps.
Maybe if Low Power Mode also turned off sandboxing…
shots fired! ;)
It would be nice if you could manually enable it.
You can – the toggle can be found under Settings -> Battery in iOS 9’s betas. It’ll also prompt you to turn it on when you get the 20% and 10% low battery warnings, and it’ll automatically turn off when the phone gets to 80% while charging.
You can!
“One of the new features we highlighted in iOS 9 is an (>) innovative (<) new way to help your iPhone battery make it through a long day. When toggled on, Low Power mode automatically kicks in when your battery level starts to get low, reducing the clock speed of the CPU as well as cutting some background activities."
How is this innovative? Please explain lol. Trowing around words like this gets me semi-mad and sad. Don't be biased, just don't!
Anyway, I was serious about the question. What exactly is innovative about this low-power mode?
Because the meaning has changed, since it is used so often. Sort of like “amazing” and “unbelievable.”
I literally died of laughter reading this.
I agree – I have the same option on my Windows Phone and I know a lot of Android phones have different ways of extending battery life, when needed. Maybe not all the same things happens between the different OSs, but calling it “innovative” is a bit of a stretch.
I still don’t understand if this is a setting that you enable once and then the phone will run in low power mode when a specific battery % charge has been reached (e.g. 20%), or if you have to toggle the option each time and possibly run the phone “slow” all the time if you so wish…
You can—
A) enable it any time manually or
B) enable it when one of the low power alerts pops up
I think the question was to know if, while toggled on and a battery sitting at say 75% charged, the phone is still being throttled down.
I don’t understand either… let’s put it on the language barrier! ;)
Oh wow… Apart from the low cpu speed, I actually have all those options disabled in order to save battery on my iPhone 6. And I get around 7 hours of usage time…
So this mode is actually useless to me.
Don’t think so, I believe there is a lot more going on that we don’t know yet, I think this a great addition ..
My friend has an iphone 6 she tried regular and she tried low power mode didnt work is there a way you can help with this solution?