Average Battery Consumption and Low Power Mode – iOS

The main goal of the Route4Me iPhone Route Planner is to make your route optimization activities more flexible and enable you to effortlessly plan and optimize multiple stop routes on the go. When out in the field, the battery life of your device is an important parameter to track and a valuable resource to preserve – the longer your device stays charged and active the more activities you can perform. By adjusting the settings of your device and the Route4Me iPhone Route Planner app, you can manipulate your average battery usage depending on the route planning, fleet management, GPS tracking, and other logistics planning operations you need to execute.

Average Battery Consumption of the Route4Me iPhone Route Planner

Usage Scenario	Performed Actions	Actual Traveled Time (min.)	Actual Traveled Distance (km.)	Average Battery Consumption
Typical User Operations Consumption + LTC	Opening the app, loading routes, optimizing and re-optimizing routes, opening routes on the map, adding notes, marking stops as Visited and Departed, and performing other routine routing operations while the location services, wi-fi, and cellular data are turned on.	30	10	8%
External Navigation + Low Power Mode	Using the Route4Me iPhone Route Planner app and third-party navigation apps (i.e., Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, etc.) with the location services, wi-fi, and cellular data turned on, and Low Power Mode enabled.	30	10	12%
External Navigation	Using the Route4Me iPhone Route Planner app and third-party navigation apps (i.e., Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, etc.) with the location services, wi-fi, and cellular data turned on.	30	10	14%

Please note that your results may differ depending on the model, battery capacity and software version of your particular device.

Turning On the Low Power Mode and Viewing Average Battery Usage of the Route4Me iPhone App

The Low Power Mode helps to reduce the amount of power that your iPhone uses when your battery gets low. To turn on the Low Power Mode on your iPhone, first, go to the settings app on your device. Next, find and open the Battery settings.

On the Battery screen, tap on the corresponding button to enable the Low Power Mode on your iPhone.

Once the Low Power Mode is enabled on your iPhone, the battery icon in the status bar changes its color from green or red to yellow. After charging your iPhone to 80% or higher, Low Power Mode automatically turns off.

To view charts with the summary of your battery usage, scroll down on the Battery screen.

Scroll further down to view the battery consumption of individual apps. Tap Battery Usage By App to view how much battery each application consumed while being active (in percent).