{"id":1471,"date":"2025-06-06T02:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T02:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2025-06-06T02:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T02:39:31","slug":"upcoming-windows-11-feature-aims-to-smartly-extend-laptop-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/06\/06\/upcoming-windows-11-feature-aims-to-smartly-extend-laptop-battery-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Windows 11 feature aims to smartly extend laptop battery life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Windows 11 will detect when you aren&#8217;t using your laptop and throttle the CPU accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windowslatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Windows-11-Health-script.jpg\" alt=\"Windows 11 Health script\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It might come down to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Drop to lower performance states (lower clock speeds or voltages).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spend more time in deeper sleep-like modes (C-states).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After spending the last few months trying to fix all the bugs in version 24H2, Microsoft\u2019s developers have now shifted their focus to the next upgrade of Windows 11. Version 25H2 will reportedly offer, among other things, a new feature meant to extend laptop battery life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new feature is at the operating system level and is called \u201cUser Interaction-Aware CPU Power Management,\u201d reportsWindows Latest. The idea seems to involve limiting CPU usage when you aren\u2019t actively using your PC. It was first referenced inthis Windows blog postabout changes introduced to Windows 11 Insiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/detail-Microsoft-1746960-MQ20\">MQ20 Battery for Microsoft Surface Pro 9 2032 1996 1997 2038<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inactivity could be inferred from a lack of mouse, keyboard, and touch-based user interaction. When you return to your PC and resume interaction with the mouse, keyboard, or touch, Windows could then switch back to regular CPU usage behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, this isn\u2019t the only thing in the works. Microsoft has been working onAI-driven management of system settings, a newAdvanced Settings page with extra tweaks, andAI-generated PC hardware advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 11 will detect when you aren&#8217;t using your laptop and throttle the CPU accordingly. Microsoft It might come down to: After spending the last few months trying to fix all the bugs in version 24H2, Microsoft\u2019s developers have now shifted their focus to the next upgrade of Windows 11. Version 25H2 will reportedly offer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/06\/06\/upcoming-windows-11-feature-aims-to-smartly-extend-laptop-battery-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upcoming Windows 11 feature aims to smartly extend laptop battery life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}