Subscribe to Xiaomi WorldReceive an email a day with our articles:All mobiles today come with a battery saving mode for those times when we need to be reachable before we get home, either in case something happens or if we are waiting for an important call.The problem is that it seems that all manufacturers (including Xiaomi) are focusing on offering much faster charging speeds, up to 150W, and equipping the new terminals with much smaller batteries, reducing their available use before reaching a place. where to load itTo solve this problem, Xiaomi has created a new battery saving mode, a much higher one.It goes one step further for those who need only and exclusively the essentials running on their mobile when there is little left to empty the battery.In Xiaomi World The value of time: how we have gone from "leaving it charging all night" to having the mobile ready in 10 minutesThis mode arrived with MIUI 12, and was added in the same Battery section of the phone settings.Extreme battery saving mode makes certain adjustments to reduce battery use, but takes them to the extreme (hence the name): restricts background activities, closes apps that are consuming too much power, lowers the brightness and puts the dark mode so that the cost of the screen is lower.The standard battery saving mode does not make as many adjustments, but instead limits activity in the background, prolonging the remaining use of the mobile for a few more hours.In Xiaomi World Five habits that ruin the battery of your mobile phone: avoid them and you will achieve more hours of useTo start using the extreme battery saving mode, just go to Settings > Battery and you will see it at the bottom of the bar with the Save battery, Balanced and Performance modes.When you go to activate it, you will get a notification about how it will affect your Xiaomi, and several of the settings it makes to save battery in this way.You can check the 'Do not show again' box and click OK to activate the function and not be notified anymore.At that point, the entire screen will go black while the changes are made, and when it's done, all you can do is call, view contacts, and send messages (SMS).A priori, you can only use those three functions, but Xiaomi allows you to add applications if you need to use any of them in this mode.To do so, you just have to hit 'Add' inside the extreme battery saving mode screen and select the application or applications that you need to include when you have it activated.In addition to this, Xiaomi also allows this mode to automatically turn off when the phone reaches 50% charge, so that the rest of the apps that had been limited return to normal.To activate this function you must do the following:Comparing it with the normal battery saving mode, the extreme version represents an increase of more than 160%, since in our case we went from having 20 hours of use with the standard to an amazing almost 53 hours of use with the battery saving mode. extreme battery.The difference is huge, yes, so if you're in a hurry and you don't have the option to charge your mobile, we totally recommend that you make use of this function.Share Extreme battery saving: what it is, how to activate it and how long a mobile lasts when it is onMore Sites You'll LikeSee more articlesIn Xiaomi World we talk about...