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How is the battery life?

Considering switching from the 955 to the 265 (mainly for the screen and smaller size). Wondering how the battery life is holding up on the 265? How much drain per hour of GPS activity, and per day of use without activities?

0 S.M.R. over 2 years ago

Hi , See my comments re 955/265 here.

forums.garmin.com/.../955-vs-the-265---my-experience-as-a-955-user

I am trying the 965 currently.

forums.garmin.com/.../the-965-is-here-finally

0 Aurelie over 2 years ago

Battery on 265s is great!! Much better than Fenix 7s with AOD off. +2-3days

0 vanbojp over 2 years ago

I've been happy with it... pretty much default display settings (AOD off), and I'm getting 7-10 days between charging, depending on activity level.

0 Monty831 over 2 years ago

I got the watch on 6th April. Turned it on and it showed 98% battery. Used it for 4 runs so far totalling over 4 hours and I have 14% left as of 19:00 on 13th. Screen settings are default

0 stugoo7 over 2 years ago in reply to Monty831

I bought the watch around 2 weeks ago now and charged it to 100%. I turn it off when I'm not using it and have done a variety of runs with it, long and short. I have aod switched on and use auto select for the GPS. I still have about 20% battery left. I think it's been great for battery and using it the way I am is similar to how I used my 245 (had another watch for general daily use). I think the battery life in that way has been very similar between this and the 245 which obviously didn't have the amoled screen. Might be different if I wore it all the time but I still think you would push a week or so with both activity tracking and daily wear. So thumbs up with it this far!

0 DPSK over 2 years ago

Switched from 955 to 265.

Been using as a smartwatch for nearly 1 week.

I think the battery seems better probably because of the AOD = OFF.