Maximizing Battery Life
You can do several things to extend the life of the battery.
- Reduce the backlight timeout (Backlight Settings).
- Reduce the backlight brightness (Backlight Settings).
- Turn off Bluetooth® wireless technology when you are not using connected features (Turning Off the Bluetooth Smartphone Connection).
- Turn off activity tracking (Activity Tracking).
- Limit the smartphone notifications the device displays (Managing Notifications).
- Stop broadcasting heart rate data to paired Garmin® devices (Broadcasting Heart Rate to Garmin Devices).
- Turn off wrist-based heart rate monitoring (Turning Off the Wrist-based Heart Rate Monitor).