Mine toggles low power mode on and vibrates when battery drops below 40%, and another automation turns low power mode off when battery charges past 50%.
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Automatically Trigger iPhone Low Power Mode Earlier
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Shortcuts is really good... and nice having these articles on Macrumors.
But I wish Apple would just put an option in iPhone, and other devices, to keep low power mode on for those who need to, or like to use it. It can make a big difference depending on how you use your devices.
And it would be even better if they introduced an emergency low power mode on iPhone that basically turns it into a dumb phone for calls and texts and GPS in an emergency... that extra battery life could be life saving in certain situations.
But I wish Apple would just put an option in iPhone, and other devices, to keep low power mode on for those who need to, or like to use it. It can make a big difference depending on how you use your devices.
And it would be even better if they introduced an emergency low power mode on iPhone that basically turns it into a dumb phone for calls and texts and GPS in an emergency... that extra battery life could be life saving in certain situations.
In Shortcuts, create an automation. Trigger on "battery level" and specifically when the battery falls below your preferred %. Then for what you want it to run, search for "set always on display", choose it, and select to turn off.
To reenable it, do another automation but for when the battery rises above your chosen %, selecting to turn on the AOD
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Anyone else keep their phone on low power mode all the time? I consistently get 3 days out of a full charge to my iPhone 12’s battery between that and keeping Bluetooth turned off.
I find it makes quite a difference on my iPhone mini 13… it makes decent battery life for such a small phone even better.
So this has already been happening with my SO phone, and I can never FIND where to TURN IT OFF!!!… but it’s been going on since ios 16, now ios 17… maybe its in this place since then.? One would think that apple would have some indication that there is some other overriding process somewhere doing this?
what we really need is the ability to write a script to stop charging at a certain level.
It seems Apple is intent on ensuring everyone charges their phones constantly to 100%.
It seems Apple is intent on ensuring everyone charges their phones constantly to 100%.
That's probably the better way of doing it. I just have a shortcut for "when LPM is off" to turn it on so that it literally can't be disabled without first disabling the shortcut haha.
I use a 13 mini, but even if I didn't use that or LPM, I would still disable the high refresh rate. It would be nothing more than a waste of resources for me. 60Hz is plenty smooth for my tastes and it seems to be just as consistent in this regard when using LPM.
Yes, it’s in Control Center… but no it’s not in Automation… i wonder why it triggers automatically when nothing is setup to activate it.. anyone know where ELSE this setting is activated?
I'm using an iPhone SE so low power mode is kinda necessary. iOS automatically disables low power mode when battery charge reaches 80%. I'm too lazy to enable it manually so I just have a shortcut that enables low power mode when battery falls below 80%.
I honestly live on low power mode for the quicker screen darkness etc. I'll wake up in the Am and turn on low power mode and then be forced to turn it back on when I charge my phone. Goal being not to have to charge my phone as often.. I have an iPhone 13 Pro and almost have it paid off from the scam AT&T pulled that I didn't read the fine print but honestly would like to hold onto for another year unless apple comes out with something earth shattering besides another ten cameras..
I'd love to do that, but when I create an automation for the disconnect event, set low power mode isn't an option and doesn't show up if I search for it.
However, the hint about setting low power mode when the battery runs down works perfectly. Guess I'll have to stick with that or doing it manually like I normally do.
I'm running 17.4.1 on an SE (2020).
Not really, event-drive programming has been around for years. It's the difference between something constantly running and checking for a certain value, rather that the OS pinging out that something happened and all programs that were interested waking up and taking action.Of course having a bunch of automation scripts running behind the scenes causes the battery to reach the threshold faster than not running the script at all
i like how they replaced a toggle that turned on low power mode with….the shortcuts app
truly brain dead
truly brain dead
You can still toggle it from Control Centre. This is just a way of adding automation.
It still pops up, the problem is if you select falls below 20%, it pops up on 20% before it's fallen below 20%.
I believe when I tested it before, I selected 25% to see if that would fix it, but I'm pretty sure it still popped up on 20% when it was on but I'd have to try it again