There will be a time where you need your Pixel 5 to not run out of juice, whether you happen to be near a charger or not.
Google has built-in a few battery-saving features to help get the most out of the Pixel’s vastly improved battery.
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Extreme Battery Saver is available on devices starting with the Pixel 3 and later, and restricts a number of background processes.
Here’s how you can enable it:
- Open your phone’s Settings app.
- Tap Battery
- Battery Saver
- Extreme Battery Saver
- When to use.
- Pick when Extreme Battery Saver will turn on.
- Ask every time: When Battery Saver turns on, it asks whether to turn on Extreme Battery Saver.
- Always use: When Battery Saver turns on, Extreme Battery Saver turns on.
- Never use: Extreme Battery Saver never turns on.
When turned on, Extreme Battery Saver limits the following:
- Most apps pause. Paused apps won’t send notifications.
- Your phone’s processing (CPU) slows.
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth work, but Wi-Fi Scanning and Bluetooth Scanning for location data turned off.
- Your work profile turns off.
- Your phone’s screen timeout drops to 30 seconds.
- Any current hotspot or tethering stops.
- To use the leftmost home screen, unpause the Google app.
