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, but you can turn it on manually at any time or set a schedule to turn it on.

When Battery saver is on

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

To save power, your phone will:

  • Turn on Dark theme (You can turn it off, but that uses more battery.)
  • 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

Turn Battery saver on/off

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

To turn Battery saver on when your battery is below a specified level:

  1. Open quick settings, then touch & hold .
  2. Tap Set a schedule > Based on percentage.
  3. Move the slider to adjust the percentage when Battery saver switches on.
TipBattery saver turns off while your phone is charging. It turns back on when you unplug the phone.

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. Make sure Turn off at 90% is on toggle on switch.

Use Standard battery saver or Maximum battery saver

This feature will be available after you upgrade to Android 15.

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

To switch:

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

  3. Select one:

    • Standard battery saver
    • 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 toggle on switch. This will lower screen brightness, adjust CPU frequency, and lower power usage as needed.
    • 5G uses more battery than 4G. If 5G isn't essential, enable toggle on switch Turn off 5G to restrict it until you switch to Standard battery saver or turn Battery saver off toggle off switch.
    • 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.