How to Enable Battery Saver Mode on a Chromebook
If you are in the middle of important work and your Chromebook is running low on battery, you can enable Battery Saver mode, which will help extend your battery life on your Chromebook.
In this guide, we’ll discuss the method to enable Battery Saver or low power mode on your Chromebook. So, without further ado, let’s get started!
Enable Battery Saver Mode on a Chromebook
Chromebooks come with a handy feature that can help extend your battery life when you’re running on low power by reducing brightness, limiting background activity, disabling visual effects, delaying notifications, and turning on Chrome’s Energy Saver while browsing the internet.
Here are the steps to enable low-power mode on your Chromebook:
Step 1: Click on the App Launcher icon to open the app drawer.
Step 2: Open Settings on your Chromebook.
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Step 3: Now, click on the System Preferences tab and select the Power option.
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Step 4: Here, turn on the Battery Saver toggle to enable low power mode on your device.
Step 5: If you want to disable it, you can simply turn off the Battery Saver toggle.
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Conclusion
You can easily turn on Battery Saver on your Chromebook device when there is no charger nearby, while traveling, or when running low on power during important work. This will help extend your Chromebook’s battery life.
However, when Battery Saver is turned on, you might notice a decrease in gaming and video performance. This is because it is optimizing your Chromebook’s battery life to run longer.
Written in 2024 for the ChromeOS and Chrome versions of that time, so menus may look different today. Restored from the Internet Archive copy of 2024-09-07. 3 of 3 screenshots were not saved by the archive; their captions are kept in the text.