This app brings Pixel 10’s Google Maps power-saving mode to older Pixels
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Key Points:
- In November 2025, Google launched a power-saving mode in Google Maps exclusive to the Pixel 10, which uses a monochrome color scheme and reduces on-screen graphics to conserve battery during navigation.
- A third-party app called Essentials, developed by Sameera Wijerathna, now enables this Google Maps power-saving mode on older Pixel devices and reportedly on some non-Pixel Android phones like Samsung.
- Essentials offers additional features such as screen-off widgets, hardware button remapping, app locking, and status bar icon hiding, with only the Maps power-saving mode requiring the installation of Shizuku and wireless debugging setup.
- The app is not available on the Google Play Store and must be sideloaded from GitHub,
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