If you don’t know how to disable the 120Hz ProMotion panel of iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max to save battery, we are going to help you out in this tutorial. The new ProMotion panel that we saw on the new iPhone 13 Pro model is more advanced than the one we saw on the 2017 iPad. Thanks to this feature, the screen adapts the refresh rate precisely according to the actions you are doing.
On Android, the apps are in charge of controlling the refresh rate, whereas on iOS the system itself sets the refresh rate. So if you want to save battery on your phone, you can disable the 120Hz ProMotion panel.
How to disable the 120Hz ProMotion panel of iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max to save battery?
First of all, clarify that your screen will still have adaptive refresh, even if you disable ProMotion. This means that your phone will move between the following values, once you tell it that you no longer want a 120Hz refresh rate:
- 60Hz (16ms)
- 48Hz (20ms)
- 40Hz (25ms)
- 30Hz (33ms)
- 24Hz (41ms)
- 20Hz (50ms)
- 16Hz (62ms)
- 15Hz (66ms)
- 12Hz (83ms)
- 10Hz (100ms)
As you can see, Apple has programmed multiple values in the system below 60Hz, in order to save maximum power when we are using the applications. To disable ProMotion at 80Hz and 120Hz on the iPhone, we need to go into accessibility options, as Apple has not put a shortcut within the display options.
Follow these steps:
- Open your iPhone settings.
- Click on Accessibility.
- Go to the Movement section.
- Click on Limit frame rate.
This way you’ve learned how to disable the 120Hz ProMotion panel of the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max to save battery, as you can see it is not a hard process. Why don’t you try it out now?
