Android Lollipop has an awesome feature called “Battery saver” mode that reduces power consumption through various tweaks in order to squeeze in an extra hour or two of standby time when your battery is running low. It does this by disabling background processes as well as location services and transition animations, so the phone is essentially running at half-throttle.

In case users forgot that they had enabled Battery saver mode, Google decided to make the status and navigation bars bright orange while the feature is turned on. Their thinking here was that if your system bars were such a… more