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Google's Pixel phones aren't the only ones with battery-saving secrets to explore. Motorola offers almost as many features inside its menus. After three weeks with the Moto Razr Ultra and separately, the Moto G Stylus 2025, I discovered a handful of tweaks hiding in plain sight that you'll likely find on your Motorola device if you know where to look.
1. Battery Saver keeps the lights on when your gauge hits the red
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Battery anxiety is the worst, and Battery Saver is a no-brainer feature that helps at just the right time. Standard Battery Saver steps in at the 20% mark, dims the interface, drops the screen refresh rate, and pauses some non-essential background data that might normally eat away at the battery over time. Calls, texts, and mapped navigation still break through, but almost everything else waits until you plug in again. It's an easy and effective solution.
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Open Settings > Battery > Battery Saver and tap Standard Battery Saver. While you're at it, head into Schedule and Reminders to set a default battery level that will trigger when the feature turns on automatically for you.
Maximum Battery Saver goes even further by freezing live wallpapers, shutting down Moto Actions, forcing a 15-second screen timeout, and even deactivating the 5G modem. I set my most essential apps to bypass these drastic changes so I can stay safe and connected to mission-critical tasks.
2. Adaptive Battery locks freeloading apps in the back room
Most applications hope to gain background privileges, but few deserve unfettered access. Adaptive Battery studies your habits, spots the apps you rarely open, and moves them into a restricted bucket that ramps these tools down when they're not in use.
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