Modern smartphones continue to become more and more powerful, intelligent and versatile, but they have their own kryptonite: dead batteries. If the level of the battery of your phone reaches zero, then it is suddenly no use at all.
This means that phone manufacturers are constantly trying to find more ways to get more time between battery charges and minimize the risk of completely drained battery. A new feature in Apple iOS 26 update for the iPhone is trying to do this exactly.
His name is Adaptive Power Mode, and Apple promises that it will give your phone a better chance to last all day. However, you need a relatively new iPhone to use it; It is available on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, and all iPhone 16 and iPhone 17 models.
How adaptive power works
The main innovation offered by adaptive food is that it intelligently monitors your typical phone use models and you get an additional battery life when you think you will need. Ideally, this should work without you notice – everything you get back is more time between the loads. According to the apple, it takes a week To understand how you tend to use your phone.
There are, of course, compromise. When the adaptive power comes into play, the brightness of the screen can drop by 3%. A combination of performance adjustments and less substantive activity means that you may notice a slight slowness in certain applications.
If the battery falls below 20%, the low power mode that iPhones offer for a certain time will be applied. Apple says that the adaptive power will not be activated if you do something demanding on your phone, such as taking photos with the apple camera or playing games with the activated game mode.
Activate or deactivate power
Adaptive power can already be activated. It is activated by default on the latest iPhone 17 and iPhone air models; If you have an older model, an iPhone 16 model or the iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max, it is disabled by default.
Go to the iOS settings page, then press Battery: Here you will see the details of your recent battery use, as well as the applications you use the most (press Show all the use of the battery for more details). To activate or deactivate adaptive power, type Power mode Then use it Adaptive power Rocking switch.
You can also light Adaptive power notifications If you wish, this will give you a head on the screen when the adaptive power supply is really applied; Otherwise, it will work silently. You can activate Low power mode From the same screen, either in tandem with adaptive power, or separately.
Other ways to save battery life
All the usual battery life tips and tips always apply, whether adaptive power is activated or deactivated (or available on your iPhone or not). Sear the screen, lowering the volume, limiting your use of GPS to navigate from one place to another – these steps will all reduce the speed with which your iPhone uses the battery life, and you can use them if necessary.
Another practical battery backup tip is to put your phone in plane mode when you can. Obviously, this means that your phone is cut off from the outside world, but it considerably reduces the consumption of battery age while allowing you to use compatible offline applications (such as the camera or your podcast player).
Then, there is a low power mode, which has existed for a certain time and which can work separately to adapt the power: this makes limits to the basic activity, the performance of the application, the brightness and the refresh rate, the use of 5G and certain other elements of the functioning of your iPhone. It works more aggressively than adaptive power, and is on or deactivated (there is no surveillance of use, as you get with an adaptive power).
