Maximizing Battery Life
- Turn off the Auto-On Backlight setting (Device Settings on Garmin Connect).
- Decrease the backlight brightness (Device Settings on Garmin Connect).
- In your smartphone notification center settings, limit the notifications that appear on your Approach® X40 device (Managing Notifications).
- Turn off smart notifications (Bluetooth Settings).
- Turn off Bluetooth® wireless technology when you are not using connected features (Turning Off Bluetooth Wireless Technology).
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Turn off wrist-based heart rate monitoring (Device Settings on
Garmin Connect).
NOTE: Wrist-based heart rate monitoring is used to calculate vigorous intensity minutes and calories burned.