Maximizing Battery Life

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

• Turn off activity tracking (Turning Off Activity Tracking).
• Reduce the backlight timeout (Changing the Screen Settings).
• Reduce the backlight brightness.
• Set up the battery saver preferences in the power managerxref customizing battery saver.
• Turn off Bluetooth wireless technology when you are not using connected features (Phone Connectivity Features).
• Stop broadcasting heart rate data to paired Garmin devices (Broadcasting Heart Rate Data).
• 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.

• Limit the smartphone notifications the device displays (Managing Notifications).
• Turn off the pulse oximeter feature (Turning Off the Wrist-based Heart Rate Monitor).
• When pausing your activity for a longer period of time, use the Resume Later option (Stopping an Activity).
• Select the Smart recording interval (System Settings).
• Use UltraTrac GPS mode for your activity (GPS 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).