Is there a shortcut for activating Low Power Mode in iOS 9?
I don't use my iPhone with a mobile data plan and I don't care if the polling frequency for background apps gets lowered a bit.
Is there an easier/faster way to activate the Low Power Mode than using Settings -> Battery -> Low Power Mode?
Is the Do Not Disturb mode that I can set using the quick settings, pulled up from the bottom of the screen, equivalent or is this a different thing? I saw some comparisons of Low Power Mode with Do Not Disturb mode in descriptions of the new feature.
Note: Using Siri is not an option for me due to privacy concerns.
Update: this was added starting in iOS 11 (Apple Video).
In brief:
- Open Settings
- Select Control Center
- Tap Customize Controls
- Find Low Power Mode option and tap the green +
more info
Original:
I was very surprised to open Control Center on iOS 9 and not see a battery icon! Apple manages to fill other things in very nicely and that would have been very logical (from my view).
Unfortunately, as of iOS 9.0, there is no simplified way to toggle Low Power Mode. As you discovered the only way to enable it is to open the Settings.app and then opening Batteries. If you'd find it faster, you can now search the Settings app by pulling down past the "top" of the list in the app.
In addition, when your phone hits 20% battery, it will alert you and offer to enable the feature.
Two Options:
Option 1: Ask Siri to "enable low-power mode". This requires an Internet connection of some type because of Siri so if you are, in fact, using an iPhone without a data plan then you will need to be on wifi.
Option 2: On iPhones featuring force-touch, you can force-touch the settings icon on the homescreen, navigate directly to battery and toggle low power mode there. Not much of a shortcut but it is something.
If you have a jailbroken device, you can activate it in Control Center via this: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/10/19/how-to-toggle-low-power-mode-via-control-center/
You can use a third party app such as iLauncher and create a custom button as a shortcut to call a custom scheme URL that will open the battery settings and option to turn on/off low power mode
Battery (updated for iOS 9):
prefs:root=BATTERY_USAGE
http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-8-widget-customisations-using-launcher.1782093/