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Title: Low Power mode in iOS 9 saves battery life by slowing performance Post by: HCK on June 28, 2015, 03:00:18 am Low Power mode in iOS 9 saves battery life by slowing performance
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Technology is a story of compromises and tradeoffs. We want devices with big, pixel-dense screens. We want snappy performance and lots of RAM. But we don’t want to have to keep one nervous eye on the battery-life indicator, or have to top off just to make it through the day.</p><p> iOS 9 (http://www.macworld.com/article/2932872/ios-9-faq-everything-you-need-to-know-about-apples-new-mobile-os.html) includes a battery-saving Low Power mode, a first for Apple. This will let you flip one switch to eke out maximum power savings. iOS will shut down background activity and reduce performance to get you as much as three extra hours before the battery finally goes kaput. On Friday, MacRumors (http://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/25/ios-9-low-power-mode-benchmarks/) used Geekbench 3 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geekbench-3/id683676887?mt=8) to quantify just how big of a performance hit you can expect.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2941282/low-power-mode-in-ios-9-saves-battery-life-by-slowing-performance.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Low Power mode in iOS 9 saves battery life by slowing performance (http://www.macworld.com/article/2941282/low-power-mode-in-ios-9-saves-battery-life-by-slowing-performance.html#tk.rss_all) |