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janeauburn

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Anyone experimented with using low power mode all the time? I'm not seeing much if any degradation of performance. Your experience?
 

janeauburn

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Low power mode is always activated on my iPhone 13. Like you, I do not see any noticeable degradation in performance at all and I do see an improvement in battery life, as you would expect.

Here is a decent breakdown of what low power mode actually does;

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/vlpfcv

Thanks. Here's another breakdown I found:


Also seeing reports on the interweb about low power mode reducing battery life. That sounds odd, but some of these folks seem to believe there's a clear cause -> effect there:

 
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Helmsley

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Interesting. Personally, I have not seen any negative effects of using low power mode.

I ran my 3.5 year old iPhone 11 constantly in low power mode and battery health was still at 88% when I got rid of it, and I am a heavy user.

Was this down to low power mode or not who knows.
 

maerz001

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Is there a way to have it activated all the time? Cos after charging it switches back to normal mode automatically
 

arw

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Is there a way to have it activated all the time? Cos after charging it switches back to normal mode automatically
Shortcuts.app > Automation > + > Create Personal Automation
Trigger: Charger Is Disconnected > Turn Low Power Mode On
and
Trigger: Charger Is Connected > Turn Low Power Mode Off
Untick Ask Before Running in both cases.

Or, if you want LPM to stay active even during charging, use this trigger:
When Low Power Mode Is Turned Off

edit: I don't recommend the latter (LPM active all the time) as it completely prevents iCloud Photos sync unless you manually force it.
 
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StaceyMJ86

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I’ve been using low power mode on my 14 Pro Max and it has made the battery last longer, but I also use the phone heavily and that also comes into play with the battery dying but not as fast as if I didn’t have Low Power Mode on.
 
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