Maximizing Battery Life

You can do several things to extend the life of the battery.

• Reduce the backlight timeout (Backlight Settings).
• Reduce the backlight brightness (Backlight Settings).
• Turn off wrist gestures (Backlight Settings).
• Turn off Bluetooth wireless technology when you are not using connected features (Turning Off the Bluetooth Smartphone Connection).
• Use a Connect IQ watch face that is not updated every second.

  For example, use a watch face without a second hand (Changing the Watch Face).

• Limit the smartphone notifications the device displays (Managing Notifications).
• Stop broadcasting heart rate data to paired Garmin devices (Broadcasting Heart Rate to Garmin Devices).
• Turn off wrist-based heart rate monitoring (Turning Off the Wrist-based Heart Rate Monitor).