Use Battery saver

Battery saver helps extend battery life until your next charge. Your phone can prompt you to activate it when the battery is low, or you can enable it anytime. Choose between Standard battery saver and Maximum battery saver.

When Battery saver is on

When the phone is in Battery saver mode, you'll see in the status bar.

Standard battery saver

When you use Standard battery saver, your phone will:

  • Turn on Dark theme (You can turn it off, but that uses more battery.)
  • Lower the refresh rate
  • Turn off Live Caption
  • Wait until you use an app to refresh its content, like email or news
  • Stop apps from doing things in the background (like listening for you to say “Hey Google”)
  • Stop using Location services when your screen is off

Maximum battery saver

Maximum battery saver makes the same adjustments to your phone as Standard battery saver, and more.

Maximum battery saver will pause all apps and their notifications, except for these essential apps:

  • Clock
  • Messages
  • Settings

You can assign other apps to be essential. For all other (non-essential) apps, the icons appear gray, and you can't use them until you switch to Standard battery saver or turn Battery saver off.

Maximum battery saver will also:

Turn Battery saver on/off

Battery saver turns off while your phone is charging. It turns back on when you unplug the phone.

Turn Battery saver on/off manually

Open quick settings and tap to turn Battery saver on/off.

Turn Battery saver on automatically

You can turn Battery saver on automatically when it reaches a specific percentage. Or you can let AI learn your behavior and limit background apps when your phone is inactive.

  1. Open quick settings, then touch & hold .
  2. Tap Schedule and reminders.

  3. To specify a percentage:

    1. Turn Set default battery level on .
    2. Move the slider to adjust the percentage when Battery saver switches on.
  4. To let AI limit background apps, turn Reduce battery drain when inactive on .
TipBattery saver turns off while your phone is charging. It turns back on when you unplug the phone.

Let it turn off when your phone is charged

To prevent your phone from turning Battery saver on before you need it, you can set it to turn off when your phone is charged to 90% or above:

  1. Open quick settings, then touch & hold .
  2. Tap Schedule and reminders.
  3. Make sure Turn off at 90% is on .

Use Standard battery saver or Maximum battery saver

To see which type of battery saver you're using, open quick settings and look for the label on the Battery saver tile .

Switch between Standard battery saver and Maximum battery saver

To switch:

  1. Open quick settings, then touch & hold .
  2. Be sure Battery saver is on .

  3. Select one:

    • Standard battery saver
    • Maximum battery saver

Adjust settings for Maximum battery saver

To adjust how Maximum battery saver works:

  1. Open quick settings, then touch & hold .
  2. Next to Maximum battery saver, tap settings icon.

  3. Adjust settings:

    • To optimize battery savings based on how you're using the phone (device workload and temperatures), turn Adaptive performance on . This will lower screen brightness, adjust CPU freqency, and turn on low power mode as needed.
    • 5G uses more battery than 4G. If 5G isn't essential, enable Turn off 5G to restrict it until you switch to Standard battery saver or turn Battery saver off .
    • Essential apps will always run. Non-essential apps are greyed out, so you can't open then, and you won't get notifications. You can add apps to the list of essential apps. However, this degrades battery savings. Beside an app, tap plus icon to move it to Essential apps, or tap to move it to non-essential apps.

Turn low-battery reminders on/off

  1. Open quick settings, then touch & hold .
  2. Tap Schedule and reminders.
  3. Turn Battery saver reminders on or off .