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Garmin Connect (iOS) battery drain

1540298
4 months ago

I observed, that during ride with Edge 540, my phone battery drains a lot. Edge is paired to iPhone 13 Pro. Today after 3.5h ride, the Connect app consumed 32% of battery.
I was not using LiveTrack or GroupRide.

Can I change some settings to mitigate that? Or, do I have to disconnect Bluetooth before ride?

  • 0 4 months ago

    Unless there some other reason you need have the app running during your ride, switch it off. If Bluetooth is on you will still get call and text message notifications.

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to PeterK_55

    I checked that today. Before ride, I closed the connect app on phone (actually, I closed all open apps) and still got significant battery usage. It seems, that there is a background worker process that cannot be killed (similar to the e-mail or whatsapp - even if you close the app, it keeps working in the background and receiving messages).

    I have a suspicion that it may have something to do with alerts functionality - reporting and receiving them is an online function, requires data connection and GPS usage.

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to 1540298

    You can also prevent the GC app from using mobile data to test that idea.  On your phone, go to Settings, Apps, Connect and toggle mobile data off.