iPhone owners can use the includedLow Power Modeto save battery life on theiriPhonein a pinch, and while it can be useful, I don’t particularly care for how it forces a 30-second auto-lock down your throat.
Appledoesn’t give you a way to increase the auto-lock timeout on a stock device with Low Power Mode enabled, but jailbreakers can take advantage of a freejailbreak tweakcalledNoLowPowerAutoLockby iOS developerSparkDevto command differently.
Once installed, NoLowPowerAutoLock disables the 30-second auto-locktimeout when Low Power Mode is turned on, allowing yourdisplayto stay on longer than it usually would.
Unfortunately, NoLowPowerAutoLock doesn’t let you select a custom auto-lock timeout from your iPhone’sDisplay & Brightnesspreference pane in the Settings app, but instead, it disables auto-lock altogether. We’d prefer to see the former case in a tweak of this nature, but at least you may always lock your device manually with the sleep/wake button.
At first glance, it may seem like disabling auto-lock defeats the purpose of Low Power Mode, but this feature does a multitude of other things to help conservebatterylife, such as:
Given the circumstances, you might say NoLowPowerAutoLock lets you have your cake and eat it too. Furthermore, with no options to configure, it ‘just works’ right out of the box.
If you’re interested in trying NoLowPowerAutoLock, then you candownload it for free from SparkDev’s beta repository in Cydia. The tweak works on alljailbrokeniOS 11iPhones only;iPaddoes not support Low Power Mode.
Will you be giving NoLowPowerAutoLock a whirl? Let us know what you think about it in the comments section below.
