{"id":67,"date":"2021-02-24T22:25:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/?p=67"},"modified":"2021-02-24T22:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:55:33","slug":"google-maps-dark-mode-save-battery-reduce-eye-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/google-maps-dark-mode-save-battery-reduce-eye-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Dark Mode &#8211; Save Battery \/ Reduce eye strain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google Maps just got updated with a new &amp; useful feature. Dark Mode for all is now available with the latest version of Google Maps.<br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"325\" class=\"wp-image-68\" style=\"width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/google-maps-dark-mode-featured.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/google-maps-dark-mode-featured.png 750w, https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/google-maps-dark-mode-featured-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br><br><strong>What&#8217;s the big deal?<\/strong><br><br>If you notice, slowly its becoming a trend with all apps and phones to have a dark mode. Usually darker colors means less bright screen and that directly helps our eyes as it strains less.<br><br><strong>Battery Savings?<\/strong><br><br>There are two types of display technology used in smart phones and tablets. IPS and OLED (AMOLED \/ SuperAMOLED \/ etc).<br><br>If you are using a phone with IPS, then there is very negligible benefit of battery savings with or without dark mode and themes.<br><br>However, if you are using a phone with OLED ((AMOLED \/ SuperAMOLED \/ etc) display panel, then there will be a good amount of battery saving for using Dark Mode and dark theme.<br><br><strong>Should you use it?<\/strong><br><br>Definitely you should be giving this mode a try. If you are comfortable with it, then start using it to reduce eye fatigue and save battery.<br><br><strong>How to enable Google Maps Dark Mode?<\/strong><br><br>Under Google Maps settings, you can find the option theme, and there enable the dark mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps just got updated with a new &amp; useful feature. Dark Mode for all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lazytourer.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}