Recently, not long after the battery life on my Instinct 2 Solar has been abysmal.

Charged last night to 100%, did the soft reset. Currently reading 60% today. Pulse Ox is set to manual, and no activities have been run since last night.

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user_ken over 2 years ago +4

Same issue since the 13.21 update. Haven't changed any settings. I'm usually getting 3-3.5 weeks on a charge. After just one week says I only have 6 days of battery life.
3623064 over 2 years ago +2

I am also having a similar issue. Prior to the recent update would have great charge now 100% - 15% in a day without activities logged, Garmin support advised a factory reset which hasn't helped as charge…
3623064 over 2 years ago in reply to 1533976 +2

Same!! Very frustrating!!

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0 Regedi over 2 years ago

Hi Folks,

I've updated 2 solar to 13.21 few day ago and i can't confirm battery drain. But after update to 13.19 i did hard reset.

0 7346141 over 2 years ago

I can confirm, I have the Instinct 2 Solar and yesterday my battery started to drain really fast it only last 6-8 hours, does anybody know what can we do?

0 daveallmond over 2 years ago in reply to 9820003

My instinct 2 (not solar) has been affected. I am training a lot less because I was sick when the update was released. Ever since my battery lasts 2 days, when it previously lasted 2 weeks including training. I've tried soft reset, checked all settings, etc... the only change I have noticed was enabling battery saver at night during sleep mode. But then I lose sleep tracking and HRV.

0 Dr Phil over 2 years ago in reply to daveallmond

daveallmond said:
the only change I have noticed was enabling battery saver at night during sleep mode

Edit Battery Saver mode to allow heart rate to be tracked. Change the setting to ‘Don’t change’ assuming you have WHR enabled usually.

0 Bullet over 2 years ago

13.21 on mine i2 solar no battery problem.

One tip.. always turn of automatic updates on garmin watches, wait for couple of weeks to see if any problems

0 MtbGuy18 over 1 year ago

Has there been any resolution on this from Garmin? I'm experiencing the exact same behavior on the instinct 2s after the last software update to 13.21