Apple power mode macos monterey ipados3/24/2023 ![]() Another nice Mac laptop trick is to see how long your Mac battery lasts in hours and minutes, through the Energy Monitor, which gives you a good estimate of time remaining based on what your current computing usage is. This may affect your MacBook’s performance especially under intensive workloads, so if you’re planning on doing anything super performance heavy you may want to not use this feature at that time.īy the way, another nice feature for Mac laptop users to enable is to show the battery percentage indicator in the macOS menu bar, which lets you easily see how much of a charge you have left. This new Low Power mode works by reducing energy usage on the Mac, through a combination of macOS adjustments, lowering the CPU’s clock speed, and reducing the display brightness to further extend the battery life beyond the rated numbers. The next time you click on the battery indicator, you’ll be informed that Low Power mode is turned on. Your MacBook’s screen may dim slightly, confirming that you’ve entered this low-powered state. In this menu, check the box next to “Low power mode” to start using it. ![]() Alternatively, you access the same menu by going to System Preferences -> Battery on your MacBook. Now, click on “Battery Preferences” as shown in the screenshot below. Click on the battery icon in the macOS menu bar to access more options.Here’s how you can turn on Low Power Mode on macOS Monterey or later: How to Use Low Power Mode on MacBook Pro & MacBook Air Unlike iOS or iPadOS however, you can’t just toggle it on from Control Center (yet, anyway), so let’s take a look at how this feature works on Mac laptops. If you’re already familiar with using Low Power Mode on iPhone or iPad, then this feature will be familiar to you, except of course now it has come to macOS. To use Low Power Mode on a Mac, you will need macOS Monterey or later, and the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, or MacBook must be from 2016 or newer. ![]() Mac laptops already get pretty good battery life (particularly the M1 series and newer), but with Low Power Mode you can get even more usage out of a MacBook, and it’s done all behind the scenes through software optimizations.
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