I've been monitoring the battery consumption of different third party faces, and every single one of them uses twice as much (or more) battery than the original watch faces. Is this common for all third party faces? I don't consider my wishes for a watch face extraordinary, but Garmins standard faces for the 5 series just doesn't cut it. However, when I find a third party face that does, it consumes two or three times as much battery, even though it provides nearly the same functions.
All I want from a watch face is:
- Digital time display with seconds
- Current date
- Heartrate
- Steps
- Status bar displaying phone and alarm status
- Battery level
To me this is quite elementary information and quite underwhelming that the standard face (not to mention the fact that there's only one digital face) is only able to do half of this. Is it too much to ask for? Slashing my battery in half or worse by using a third party face shouldn't be necessary. Why can't Garmin release updated/newer faces to older clocks? If they just bothered to release the Fenix 6 faces to my 1 year old $900 watch that'd be great... It's just software, and you'd expect it to be updated for some time on products in this price range. Look at Apple and how they keep their older phones up to speed as long as possible.
