Reduce battery drain when not wearing watch

budish 2 months ago

I wear my 970 for sleep and workouts, but I wear another watch during the day. I was getting annoyed with my 970 constantly buzzing for notifications when I wasn’t wearing it, so I started turning on “Do Not Disturb” mode every time I took off the watch. What I accidentally discovered is that this massively improved my battery life. I guess all the vibrations and screen wakeups was draining the battery but turning on DND stops that and reduces battery drain when not wearing the watch.

0 Fozzee1970 2 months ago

I think most people wear their Garmin watches 24/7 as it's intended to be. Otherwise you don't get the benefits of all the metrics. Out of interest why don't you just turn it off when you aren't using it?

0 budish 2 months ago in reply to Fozzee1970

I’m just sharing my experience. I’m sure there are other people who don’t wear their Garmins 24/7. This might help them; it won’t help others. I never said it was for everyone.

I don’t power it down completely because it takes much longer to reboot than to just turn on/off dnd.