JetBrains Rider 2026.1 Help

Power Save Mode

Power Save Mode reduces JetBrains Rider's background activity to conserve battery life on laptops and minimize CPU usage. When enabled, JetBrains Rider disables or scales back a number of resource-intensive features while keeping core editing, navigation, building, running, and debugging fully functional.

Enable Power Save Mode

  1. From the main menu, select File | Power Save Mode.

  2. When Power Save Mode is on, the Power Save Mode icon widget appears on the status bar.

    If the widget does not appear, right-click any other status bar widget and select the Power Save Mode checkbox.

What gets disabled

Code analysis and inspections

Code completion

UI and version control

  • Smooth scrolling and editor caret animations are turned off.

  • Indeterminate progress-bar animations and deferred icon loading are suspended.

  • Some VCS background operations are reduced: the VCS log auto-update is paused, log indexing is postponed, and annotation preloading is disabled.

What still works

Power Save Mode doesn't affect the following features:

22 April 2026