Low Power Mode

Choose when Low Power Mode automatically toggles on or off with Low Power Modder

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated December 27, 2023

One way to conserve power on your iPhone when the battery level gets uncomfortably low is to turn on the built-in Low Power Mode. This feature reduces power consumption on your iPhone by doing things like reducing your screen brightness, slashing background tasks, and making your iPhone fall asleep faster, among other things.

On the other hand, iOS doesn’t kick itself into Low Power Mode automatically until you reach at staggeringly-low 20% of your battery life. By that point, you’re already grasping at straws. That’s why iFlames released a new free jailbreak tweak called Low Power Modder in Cydia.

CCLowPower adds a Low Power Mode toggle to Control Center

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 2, 2017

As many of us use our iPhones a whole lot more than others do, we find ourselves combating the ongoing issue with conserving battery life, and that’s why Apple introduced a handy little feature known as Low Power Mode.

Although it’s useful at times, it still requires you to dig through the Settings app to get to it, which is not only cumbersome, but also inconvenient. To fix that problem, a new free jailbreak tweak made especially for iOS 10 called CCLowPower will let you enable Low Power Mode via a new toggle button in Control Center.

Snapchat optimized for iPhone’s Low Power Mode

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 18, 2016

Earlier this week, Snapchat issued a small update to its free of charge iPhone application on the App Store. Bumping version number to 9.37, the app is now optimized for iOS's Low Power Mode which debuted in iOS 9 last year.

“When your device is in Low Power Mode, Snapchat will now automatically reduce its battery usage,” according to release notes accompanying a 96.1-megabyte download.

iOS 9.3.2 beta 2 brings back ability to use Night Shift and Lower Power Mode at the same time

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 20, 2016

The ability to use iOS 9.3's headlining Night Shift feature when an iPhone is in Low Power Mode has been reinstated in a second beta of iOS 9.3.2 that was seeded to Apple's registered developers this morning, as noted by eagle-eyed users on Twitter and first reported on by MacRumors.

Night Shift and Low Power Mode worked simultaneously on prior iOS 9.3 betas, but that feature was later removed without explanation in iOS 9.3 beta 4.

Siri trick that let you activate Night Shift while Low Power Mode is enabled no longer works

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 6, 2016

The iOS 9.3 software update includes Night Shift mode that helps users get a good night's sleep by reducing the amount of blue light emitted from a backlight of their iOS device.

Night Shift is unavailable when an iPhone is in Low Power Mode and a workaround that let you ask Siri to activate Night Shift in this mode no longer works.

As first reported on by 9to5Mac's Jeff Benjamin, asking Siri to enable Night Shift while the device is in Low Power Mode now yields a warning message.

Wolfram: a tweak that supposedly helps you charge your iPhone faster

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 16, 2016

Low Power Mode is a feature Apple built into iOS 9 to help you conserve power when your battery level gets too low. But what if we told you that's not the only way it could benefit you?

A new jailbreak tweak called Wolfram, which can be had free of cost from Cydia today, aims to use Low Power Mode for an entirely different purpose – making charging your device a little bit quicker.

This jailbreak tweak keeps Low Power Mode on even after a full charge

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated February 2, 2016

Low Power Mode is one of the new features of iOS 9 that allows you to keep your battery usage as low as possible throughout the day when you want to conserve battery life and you feel your battery level is getting to the point where you might not last until you can get to a charger.

Unfortunately, while most of us enjoy reaping the benefits of Low Power Mode, whether we have a low battery level or not, iOS automatically disables the feature when your device gets charged up enough, forcing you to go to the Settings app and re-enable Low Power Mode manually.

That's where a new free jailbreak tweak in Cydia's BigBoss repository called LowPowerMode is going to make your life a whole lot easier.

How to fix grayed out Auto-Lock setting on iPhone

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated February 22, 2022

Every once in a while, the auto-lock setting on my iPhone would get stuck on thirty seconds even though I clearly remember setting it to one minute. And occasionally, I can't change the timing for the automatic lock feature in Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock because the option appears grayed out.

If this also happens with you and your iPhone keeps locking in 30 seconds, here's a simple way to fix this issue.

How to toggle Low Power mode via Control Center with a jailbreak tweak

Jeff Benjamin ∙ October 19, 2015

Low Power Flipswitch is a new Flipswitch toggle that allows you to quickly enable or disable Low Power Mode on iOS 9 devices. Flipswitch is the long-running framework that lets developers access standard toggles, and create new toggles.

With a tweak like Ryan Petrich's FlipControlCenter, which was recently updated to support iOS 9, users can easily enable a Low Power Mode toggle that's directly accessible via Control Center. Check out the rest of this post for more details.

Enabling Low Power Mode on the iPhone 6s cuts performance to iPhone 5s levels

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

Low Power Mode allows iPhone users running iOS 9 to eke out more battery life when the battery is getting low. It doesn't just pull this ability out of thin air, it causes iOS to turn off certain features like mail fetch, background app refresh, automatic downloads, etc.

What's more, Low Power Mode significantly reduces the clock speed of your iOS device. We've seen before and after benchmarks with older iPhones involving Low Power Mode, but what about Apple's just-released iPhone 6s? How much of an impact does Low Power Mode have on it?

iOS 9’s Low Power Mode can significantly increase your iPhone’s battery life

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated June 12, 2018

What if you ran Low Power Mode on your iPhone all of the time? That's the question that Matt Birchler asked, and he was curious enough to try the experiment for himself. The results are quite eye opening. Low Power Mode doesn't necessarily have to be a feature that you only use to eek by on a small percentage of remaining battery...

New in iOS 9: Lost Mode switches on Low Power Mode automatically

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated May 24, 2023

The new Low Power Mode option in iOS 9 allows users to eek out more battery life by disposing battery draining features such as parallax effects, throttling down CPU performance, and disabling background app refresh. In all, Low Power Mode can provide users with up to 3 additional hours of battery life.

In iOS 9, Apple is allowing Find My iPhone's Lost Mode, a mode that lets you to mark your iPhone as being lost, to use Low Power Mode at the same time. By doing so, lost iPhones have an even greater chance of recovery due to being able to stay on for a longer period of time.