{"id":87903,"date":"2016-04-13T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=87903"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:59:46","slug":"ios-9-3-1-has-a-secret-that-could-save-you-a-lot-of-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ios-9-3-1-has-a-secret-that-could-save-you-a-lot-of-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 9.3.1 has a secret that could save you a lot of battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apple <\/strong>recently launched <strong>iOS version 9.3.1 <\/strong>\u2013 the update that was supposed to fix all those problems that surfaced from version <strong>9.3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it worked, however, this new update holds a special secret that our friends at <strong>9to5Mac<\/strong> have recently discovered.<br \/>\nBasically, <strong>iOS 9.3.1<\/strong> has the ability to simultaneously run the <strong>Night Shift Mode<\/strong> as well as keeping the Low Battery Mode activated (something which many of you will know was impossible in <strong>9.3<\/strong>). This means that we can save loads of battery power when not using our devices.<\/p>\n<h3>Here\u2019s how you do it:<\/h3>\n<p>1.\tActivate the <strong>Battery Saving Mode<\/strong> in Settings &gt; Battery<\/p>\n<p>2.\tOpen <strong>Siri<\/strong> and say \u201c<em>Activate Night Shift<\/em>\u201d (Siri will tell you that in order to do this, he\u2019ll have to turn off <strong>Low Power Mode<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>3.\tSay \u201cyes\u201d, and before <strong>Siri<\/strong> can answer, click the <strong>power button<\/strong>. You will then hear Siri\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>4.\tTo finish, open the iPhone. If you have completed <strong>step 3<\/strong> correctly, you\u2019ll see  that your device is in both Night Shift Mode and Low Battery Mode.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87909\" title=\"20164127522_3-568x333\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/20164127522_3-568x333-568x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/20164127522_3-568x333.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/20164127522_3-568x333-256x150.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/> This trick is more of a flaw in <strong>Apple\u2019s design<\/strong>, so the likelihood that it will be around forever is not looking too promising!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple recently launched iOS version 9.3.1 \u2013 the update that was supposed to fix all those problems that surfaced from version 9.3. Yes, it worked, however, this new update holds a special secret that our friends at 9to5Mac have recently discovered. Basically, iOS 9.3.1 has the ability to simultaneously run the Night Shift Mode as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ios-9-3-1-has-a-secret-that-could-save-you-a-lot-of-battery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iOS 9.3.1 has a secret that could save you a lot of battery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":87910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-87903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329070,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87903\/revisions\/329070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87903"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=87903"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=87903"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=87903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}