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All I want is Low Power mode all the time
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You are missing the point that it saves battery cycles and iphones are only good for about 400-500 before it starts diminishing pretty quickly. Charging once a day is basically 1 year. For people that upgrade their phones yearly, it's not a big issue. Furthermore, when it comes to reselling the phone, being able to brag that the #cycles is like 200 vs 700-800 of other folks, it becomes a strong selling point.
In ios8, even with similar usage, i was charging every 2 days when i kept it off the charger. While my usage meter was also 4-6 hours, i definitely did not actually use the phone for that long. The phone pretty much drained fast on its own without ever touching it. Actual usage was ~2 hours of music, text relay from ipad and i'd be down to 70-80%. Under ios9, i get the 6-7 hours, 80+ hours standby time while also still having about 20% charge left.
It also may mean that i may be able to push it well over 10-11 hours of more active use - something that was impossible in ios8 (by trading in some of the standby time) THis is good for those days when i need to heavily use the phone. It wont be dead by like 5pm for a 12 hour day.
FYI - today I charged the phone for about 30 minutes in the car, total, and it's now 10PM and I have 40% battery life. I am ecstatic. Finally have a phone with suitable battery life.
Your iPad 2 is aging dude.... The battery won't improve over the time.
Battery life decrease
Sure I can. I just don't see any reason I should have to do that 3-4 times per day (the result of it being enabled automatically as the phone charges past 80%). The goal is to not have to think about the battery so often every day. I don't think that's a lot to ask from a company which markets itself as making things that "just work", so you don't have to constantly change settings.
It's exactly the reason why they likely wouldn't want this option to be enabled indefinitely for many who might not even realize it and have a phone that isn't working to its fullest potential. I'm not saying that's good or bad, just that there's likely reasoning behind it (even if some might not care about or agree with it).
No, I'm confused. Why would you need to be changing them back and forth?
Turn off background app refresh. Put mail in manual. Disable location services for every app instead of maps. Turn 'auto lock' to 30 seconds, etc.
I mean, sure, it'll take a minute, but it will give you what you want. If you're going in and messing with them then you're not getting low power mode all of the time, which is what you said you wanted. There's little point in turning on low power mode when you're not using the phone and then turning it off when you do use it. You'll just be using the power on the same tasks as if you'd done nothing at all.
The point is to, as you said, leave it on ALL of time if you really want to see results.
If your intent is to constantly toggle back and forth then just give up. You're gonna go to a lot of trouble to see very little result.
Oh yeah, just go through those "three little steps" that are actually about 100 taps, and you're done!
No, I know this is hard for Apple lovers/apologists, but if Apple would just do one tiny thing to change how it works (by adding ONE more slider on/off) it would save me a lot of time and trouble. Can't you just see that that wouldn't be such a big deal? Instead you have to try to tell me all the reasons YOU think I don't really want what I know I want?
I guess some people don't mind a slower phone, mail not refreshing, and animations missing.
Really dude there is no GOOD reason to be in low power mode all the time. It's for when your out and about and your phone hits 10%.
Don't forget the screen dimming way faster
I think the underlying point there is that Apple doesn't want to offer that functionality. Sure it'd be useful to some people, but that doesn't really change Apple's approach to these types of things. Again, it's not to say it's good or right, but basically how they likely approach it and why it is the way it is and not likely to change.
When your phone is idle and you have set all these tasks to manual, is the processor still running in the background? If so, then low power mode which underclocks the processor could help.
I am doing some testing to figure out how much more battery life I can get, but then sometimes you don't remember to turn off LPM and get not very fluent app loading, animations etc.
I am doing some testing to figure out how much more battery life I can get, but then sometimes you don't remember to turn off LPM and get not very fluent app loading, animations etc.
I'm not telling you what I think. I'm telling you what you said:
All I want is Low Power mode all the time
It now seems that that's not what you want. Ok, fine. But that's not me forcing my ideas on you. That's you changing what you want from what the title of the thread originally said.
Well then that's the suggestion already given, set the settings that LPM does ONCE and then leave it alone and you don't have to flip the switch multiple times a day or have to think about the battery so often every day. Problem solved. I guess the "reason" they don't do what you are asking is that the option is already available as mentioned for folks who what it that way, change your settings ONCE and leave it. The LPM switch is for an entirely different reason than what you want it for. I am sure they cant make a switch for each person who wants a device to work specifically how they want it to.
Some testing results here: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/0...ificantly-increase-your-iphones-battery-life/
...just quoting from their testing:
with the screen off most of the time, Low Power Mode chewed through battery 44% slower than normal mode.
That's a big improvement if your phone is sitting idle (screen off) most of the time.
Not sure if A-series processor has something similar to Intel's turbo boost, that would make auto LPM possible.
with the screen off most of the time, Low Power Mode chewed through battery 44% slower than normal mode.
That's a big improvement if your phone is sitting idle (screen off) most of the time.
Not sure if A-series processor has something similar to Intel's turbo boost, that would make auto LPM possible.
I disagree. They just made a big step towards offering just that, and if they get feedback from people who are happy with it, wanting more, they could very well listen. I know Apple isn't known for listening to its customers, but sometimes, rare as it is, they do listen.
Well, all I can say is good luck with it. Certainly many more much more useful features or even basic options have been requested for years now without much movement on Apple's side to address them. But no one really knows what they will do, so anything is possible.
Change all fetch E-mail accounts to "Manual". Turn off the master "Background app refresh" switch. This should give you the equivalent of low power mode all the time.
Yeah, I'm confused myself.
If you want the equivalent of low power mode all the time then manually doing the steps to enable it one time don't seem like that big of a deal.
I also imagine that your use case would make up a very small percentage of customers. But hey, if you want it, make sure you go to apple.com/feedback and request it. If enough people complain about it, maybe they'll work in the option at some point.
According to the link I posted early in this thread, the VAST majority of people who responded to a poll asking what new feature they wanted in the next iPhone (which was the 6S) requested better battery life.
I want the ability to turn LPM off and on, even if it's only once every couple days. I don't want to have to change a multitude of settings. The LPM setting works very well. They just need to make it an option that it does not turn itself off if you don't want it to.
I don't think we should have the option to manually enable it. It creates confusion and adds complexity to 'managing' your device.