Maximizing the Battery Life

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

• Reduce the backlight timeout (Changing the Backlight Settings).
• Use UltraTrac GPS mode for your activity (UltraTrac).
• Turn off Bluetooth wireless technology when you are not using connected features (Bluetooth Connected Features).
• When pausing your activity for a longer period of time, use the resume later option (Stopping an Activity).
• Turn off activity tracking (Activity Tracking Settings).
• 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 smartphone notifications the device displays (Managing Notifications).
• Stop broadcasting heart rate data to paired Garmin devices (Broadcasting Heart Rate Data to Garmin Devices).
• Turn off wrist-based heart rate monitoring (Turning Off the Wrist-based Heart Rate Monitor).

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

• Turn off the pulse oximeter feature (Turning Off the Wrist-based Heart Rate Monitor).
• Use UltraTrac GPS mode for your activity (UltraTrac).
• Select the Smart recording interval (System Settings).