Garmin Connect for iOS Battery drain

I have a problem with GCM on iOS on IP 13 pro. Application even barley used drains 13-15% (1 min onscreen and two hours backgorund) battery per day with is massive - tops as 3rd app regullary.

What I've tried:

*Phone restart

*Disable location permission for GCM

*Reconnect watch

*Disabled background refresh

Anyone had similar problems maybe? it drives me crazy, really.

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sokszkota over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon +1

Thank You. I'll try to cut connection tomorrow and I see how things go from there.
mcalista over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon +1

Ɛpsilon said:
WIth my 6X my watch uses about just 1% overnight this way, using the power manager to cut off BT and wifi, switch to low power watch face, but keep HR and activity tracking (so it registers…

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0 Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago

I have an I13. It's in the top three, but doesn't really use a lot of battery. Disabling location and refresh may hit syncing and weather etc, basically as it's always communicating and syncing its always going to be up there. Doesn't affect my phone life much at all.

May be worth posting here Garmin Connect Mobile iOS

0 sokszkota over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

Thanks. I'll try to remove app and check again, as right now I'm loosing 15% per night with GCM waking up phone every hour or so.

0 Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago in reply to sokszkota

That's not good. What may help? Use the Power manager mode on your watch to switch off the phone connection during sleep. I find its amazing for saving my watch battery. Then I can sync as normal in the morning. That SHOULD cut your battery usage by a third hopefully as you could then force close connect at night and just re-open it in the morning

0 sokszkota over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

Thank You. I'll try to cut connection tomorrow and I see how things go from there.

0 Ɛpsilon over 3 years ago in reply to sokszkota

WIth my 6X my watch uses about just 1% overnight this way, using the power manager to cut off BT and wifi, switch to low power watch face, but keep HR and activity tracking (so it registers sleep) active :)

0 Sam201176 over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

I like the sound of that Adam, I'm just changing my power management settings to yours to eek out a few more days before charges : -)

0 Dr Phil over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

Ɛpsilon said:
It's in the top three, but doesn't really use a lot of battery.

Ɛpsilon said:
Doesn't affect my phone life much at all.

I've seen this frequently too. It's not the same as using a lot of battery. I always see GCM at the top but if I switch to 'Show Activity' most of that is background. iOS battery life is still more than enough for a day and this is with an iPhone X and a degrading battery.

I have GCM running in the background and do not disable Bluetooth overnight in Battery Saver.

0 mcalista over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

Ɛpsilon said:
WIth my 6X my watch uses about just 1% overnight this way, using the power manager to cut off BT and wifi, switch to low power watch face, but keep HR and activity tracking (so it registers sleep) active :)

I use exactly the same Battery Saver settings overnight. I also turn the backlight off.

0 sokszkota over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

So it looked I had some widgets that needed an update. After updating, problem resolved itself