Power saving mode

When a tablet is used a lot, its battery discharges quickly. In addition, the longer a tablet is in use, the faster the battery discharges. Power saving mode in mobile Yandex Browser saves the battery and allows you to work on your tablet one hour longer.

  1. How does power saving mode work?
  2. Enable
  3. Disable
  4. Settings

How does power saving mode work?

In this mode, mobile Yandex Browser:

  • Reduces activity of the background tabs.
  • Uses hardware video codecs instead of VP9 and VP8.
  • Turns off the parallax background when you open a new tab.
  • Takes other actions to optimize power consumption.

Enable

Automatic

When the battery charge drops to 20%, mobile Yandex Browser turns on the power saving mode and notifies you about it. The SmartBox shows the icon on the right side. To turn off this mode, tap the Disable button.

By default, power saving is turned on until you plug in the tablet.

For the current session
  1. Tap the icon.
  2. Turn on the Power saving option.

The option is turned on until you connect your tablet to the power source.

Forever
  1. Tap  → Settings.
  2. Go to Power saving mode.
  3. In the Power-saving settings field, switch the slider to the right to On.

Disable

For the current session
  1. Tap the icon.
  2. Turn off the Power saving option.

This option is turned off until you connect your tablet to the power source.

Tip. You can disable the display of this option in the browser menu. To do this, open the Power saving mode section in settings and turn off the Show widget in menu option.
Forever
  1. Tap  → Settings.
  2. Go to Power saving mode.
  3. In the Power-saving settings field, switch the slider to the left to Off.

Settings

You can choose when the power saving mode is enabled:

  1. Tap  → Settings.
  2. Go to Power saving mode.
  3. In the Power-saving settings field, move the slider to set the battery level for switching the mode.