Automate Low Power Mode with a Shortcut on the iPhone

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In this video, we’re going to look at how we can set our iPhone to go into low power mode automatically. Once our battery level falls below 50%, we can do this by creating a personal automation in the shortcuts app. Now, first off, why would I want to do this? What by default, the iPhone will go into low power mode, once your battery level falls below 20%. Well, if you have an older battery that’s not holding as much as a charge, you may want it to go into low power mode after it falls below 50%. Also, by default, what your iPhone will do is it’ll go into low power mode, only after you confirm it, it’s going to ask you do you want to go into low power mode, you have to confirm it, maybe what you’d like to do is have it go into low power mode automatically. You don’t want to confirm it, and you want it to go into low power mode. Once your battery level falls below 50%. Again, we can do this through a personal automation. Let’s go over to my iPhone and see how we set this up.

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The first thing that we need to do is open up the shortcuts app. Again, we’re creating a personal automation in the shortcuts app. So I tap on shortcuts. And then we make sure that we’re looking at automation down at the bottom, this is the tab in the center. From here we tap on plus in the upper right hand corner, and we tap on create personal automation. The reason why this is a personal automation is because this is local to this iPhone, it doesn’t sync with iCloud, what you’re doing is you’re creating an automation just for this iPhone.

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Now what we need to do is we need to set when we want the automation to run, when do we want it to go into low power mode as an example. Well, what we want it to do is go into low power mode when the battery level here falls below 50%. We tap on Next in the upper right hand corner. And from here we tap on Add Action. What do we want it to do when that battery level falls below 50%. While we want it to go into low power mode, so I’m going to tap on search here. And I just type in here low power mode, you’re going to see I have here set low power mode.

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And we can see what it is going to do is turn low power mode on, we have one more step I tap on Next. And then what we need to do is turn off ask before running. If I leave asked before running on, I’m going to have to confirm it. Remember, that’s not what I want to do, I want it to go into low power mode automatically, I don’t want to have to confirm it. So now I turn the slider off. And say Don’t ask.

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My last step here is to tap on Done. So now I’ve just created that automation, basically, what’s going to happen is when my battery level falls below 50%, it’s going to perform an action, that action is going to be turned on low power mode, it is not going to ask me to confirm it. So it’s going to do this automatically. So that’s all there is to creating that personal automation. If you want to edit this, maybe you do want it to ask you to confirm it, what you can do is tap on it. And then you can say asked before running. Now when my battery level falls below 50%, it’s going to ask me if I want to go into low power mode. Again, I want to leave that off. So I’m just going to turn that off, tap on Done. And now my iPhone will automatically go into low power mode once my battery level falls below 50%. And that’s all done through a personal automation in the shortcuts app.

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So that’s how we have our iPhone go into low power mode. Once our battery level falls below a certain percentage in my case, I set it for 50%. Again, this is all done through the shortcuts app