{"id":48245,"date":"2025-06-26T15:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48245"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:51:14","slug":"ios-26-adaptive-power-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/26\/ios-26-adaptive-power-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26: Adaptive Power Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/21\/ios-26-adaptive-power-mode-compatible-iphones\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/21\/ios-26-adaptive-power-mode-compatible-iphones\/\"><p>Apple says that Adaptive Power Mode can make &ldquo;small performance adjustments&rdquo; when necessary to extend an iPhone&rsquo;s battery life, including slightly lowering the display brightness or allowing some activities to &ldquo;take a little longer.&rdquo;<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Adaptive Power Mode is only available on the iPhone 15 Pro models and newer. This is because the AI-powered feature requires an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>As described, it&rsquo;s not really clear why these features have such high system requirements.<\/p>\n\n<p>I do really like these different power modes that Apple has introduced over the last few years. I always run my Mac in High Power Mode when plugged in and Low Power Mode when on battery. I don&rsquo;t miss much putting my watch in Low Power Mode when I know it&rsquo;s going to be a long day, and then it lasts a surprisingly long time.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/10\/ios-26-announced\/\">iOS 26 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/08\/high-power-mode-for-m4-pro-macs\/\">High Power Mode for M4 Pro Macs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/14\/low-power-mode-for-mac-laptops\/\">Low Power Mode for Mac Laptops<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: Apple says that Adaptive Power Mode can make &ldquo;small performance adjustments&rdquo; when necessary to extend an iPhone&rsquo;s battery life, including slightly lowering the display brightness or allowing some activities to &ldquo;take a little longer.&rdquo;[&#8230;]Adaptive Power Mode is only available on the iPhone 15 Pro models and newer. This is because the AI-powered feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-06-26T19:27:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"b821b77e-ef19-46b7-a458-37abffaad81b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-06-26T19:27:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AuCG3fu8ZRrekWDer_6rYGw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2602,1351,28,2083,31,2741,2456],"class_list":["post-48245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-batterylife","tag-focus","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-iphone-15-pro"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48246,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48245\/revisions\/48246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}