Power saving mode

Power saving mode in Yandex Browser for Mobile saves your battery charge and gives you one extra hour of tablet use.

What’s happening

In this mode, Yandex Browser optimizes energy consumption. For example:

• Reduces activity of the background tabs.

• Enables the reader mode.

• Uses hardware video codecs instead of VP9 and VP8.

• Disables the parallax effect for the background when opening a new tab screen.

Enabling and disabling

Automatic

Yandex Browser turns on power saving mode when the battery charge drops to the level specified in the settings (default is 20%). In this case, the icon in the right corner of the bottom panel changes to .

Note

Power saving mode is turned off when you start charging your tablet.

Power saving settings

1. Tap  → Settings → Power saving mode.

2. You can set the preferred mode:

   • Switch the slider to Off to always keep power saving mode off.

   • Switch the slider to On to always keep power saving mode on.

   • Set the slider between Off and On at the desired value (default is 20%) to turn on power saving mode at a specific battery level.

Settings

1. Tap  → Settings → Power saving mode.

2. Adjust the settings:

   • Power saving settings. Use the slider to set the charge level to trigger the mode.

   • Show widget in menu. Disable this option to remove the option from the Power saving menu.

3. In power saving mode, some Yandex Browser functions are disabled. You can re-enable:

   • Read mode.

   • Smooth animation of web page elements. This will allow maps and online games to be rendered in high quality.

   • App animations.