Google recently released its November Pixel Drop update, which includes several new features for Pixel phones and some Android devices. One of the more interesting updates is a power-saving mode in Google Maps.

The feature is meant to help save battery life by reducing the amount of visible features in the navigation map. This is partly done by making the app monochrome in a black and white scheme.

This new power-saving mode was discovered around Halloween in Google beta code, but it wasn't clear how close it was to launch. Now it has, but unfortunately the battery-saving feature is only available for Pixel 10 phones at the moment.

Based on the previously discovered code and what we've seen in the Pixel Drop, there doesn't seem to be an obvious technical reason Google can't make this po

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