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 at any time. Choose between Standard battery saving and Maximum battery saving.

When Battery Saver is on

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

Standard battery saving

When you use Standard battery saving, 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, such as email or news
  • Stop apps from doing things in the background (such as listening for you to say ‘Hey Google’)
  • Stop using Location services when your screen is off

Maximum battery saving

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

Maximum battery saving 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 grey and you can't use them until you switch to Standard battery saving or turn Battery Saver off.

Maximum battery saving 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 behaviour 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 and hold .
  2. Make sure Turn off at 90% is on .

Use Standard battery saving or Maximum battery saving

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 saving and Maximum battery saving

To switch:

  1. Open quick settings, then touch & hold .
  2. Make sure that Battery Saver is on .

  3. Select one:

    • Standard battery saving
    • Maximum battery saving

Adjust settings for Maximum battery saving

To adjust how Maximum battery saving works:

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

  3. Adjust settings:

    • To optimise 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 frequency 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 saving or turn Battery Saver off .
    • Essential apps will always run. Non-essential apps are greyed out, so you can't open them 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 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 .