Maximizing Battery Life
You can do several things to extend the life of the battery.
- Turn off music.
- Reduce the display brightness, and disable the Always On Display screen setting ().
- Set up the battery saver preferences in the power manager ().
- Turn off Bluetooth technology when you are not using connected features ().
- Reduce the display timeout ().
- Stop broadcasting heart rate data to paired Garmin devices ().
- Turn off wrist-based heart rate monitoring ().
NOTE: Wrist-based heart rate monitoring is used to calculate vigorous intensity minutes and calories burned.
- Limit the phone notifications the watch displays ().
- Turn off the pulse oximeter feature ().
- When pausing your activity for a longer period of time, use the Resume Later option ().
- Select the Smart recording interval ().
- Use UltraTrac GPS mode for your activity ().
- Use a watch face that is not updated every second.