Tips for Maximizing the Battery Life

To extend the life of the battery, you can try these tips.

Change the power mode during an activity (Changing the Power Mode).

• Turn on the battery saver feature from the controls menu (Controls).
• Reduce the screen timeout (Changing the Screen Settings).
• Reduce the screen brightness (Changing the Screen Settings).
• Use UltraTrac satellite mode for your activity (Satellite Settings).
• Turn off Bluetooth technology when you are not using connected features (Controls).
• When pausing your activity for a longer period of time, use the Resume Later option (Stopping an Activity).
• Use a watch face that is not updated every second.
• For example, use a watch face without a second hand (Customizing the Watch Face).
• Limit the phone notifications the watch displays (Managing Notifications).
• Stop broadcasting heart rate data to paired devices (Broadcasting Heart Rate Data).
• Turn off wrist-based heart rate monitoring (Wrist Heart Rate Monitor Settings).

  NOTE: Wrist-based heart rate monitoring is used to calculate vigorous intensity minutes and calories burned.

• Turn on manual pulse oximeter readings (Setting the Pulse Oximeter Mode).