Battery level on watch face

SETTINGS - POWER MANAGER - Battery Estimates - set to OFF and it'll change to percentage rather than days

Thanks a lot, learning every minute. Fenix 6X is very different than my former F5X ! I notice you can activate/deactivate battery level in % and in days distinctly.

thanks for your help !

A pleasure!

On my son's Instinct, it can't even be configured to show days OR percent, all he gets is a battery icon with 5 bars in it. If he's got 1 bar left, there's no telling if the battery has 2 days left, or will die any minute. So we're lucky ;)

This modalitiy in my opinion should be modified because on watch face I want to see the percentage cause it's more immediate to know when to recharge (when goes under 30% I usually recharge it) and above all the days remaining refer to the watch modality so you can see for example 3 hours left but if you start a run activity the hours left are much less and you should recharge. But if you impost the watch to show percentage on watch face then when you start an activity you don't see immediately how many hours are remaining but only the percentage. So for me the time remaining should be anyway shown starting an activity even if you put percentage on watch face.

I agree they should be independent settings, ideally. For the exact same reasons you mentioned. In the meantime, what I do, is I have my battery mode set to "time remaining", so that's what it shows on the watchface and in activities, but if I want to see the percentage then it's just a matter of pressing the down button once - at the very top of the widget wheel, it shows both battery time AND percentage.

I find that to be generally sufficient, since I really only need to see the battery % once every few days, it's not something I need to see every time I look at my watch. If I really want to see the percent, it's only 1 button press.