Tips for maximising your battery life

For those looking to extend their battery life as much as possible by turning off things they don't want / can do without, what have you tried and what effect has it had?

E.g. Notifications, BT all together (just turn on to sync?), 23/7 HR, activity tracking, watch faces/widgets/apps, anything else?

I would definitely like to know. I have notifications and Bluetooth turned off (except to sync when I wake up and go to bed) 24/7 monitoring, activity tracking, no watch face, only the battery widget and my battery life has INCREASED by 7-8% daily since the 3.20 update.

For those looking to extend their battery life as much as possible by turning off things they don't want / can do without, what have you tried and what effect has it had?

E.g. Notifications, BT all together (just turn on to sync?), 23/7 HR, activity tracking, watch faces/widgets/apps, anything else?

Backlight consumes power than anything else so turn off Wrist Turn, turn off it coming on with Alerts etc and keep the timeout at the default 8 secs.

I would definitely like to know. I have notifications and Bluetooth turned off (except to sync when I wake up and go to bed) 24/7 monitoring, activity tracking, no watch face, only the battery widget and my battery life has INCREASED by 7-8% daily since the 3.20 update.

Do you think that 7-8% is mostly due to no continuous BT? That's a pretty healthy increase in battery life.

Do you think that 7-8% is mostly due to no continuous BT? That's a pretty healthy increase in battery life.

If I left BT on, I would suspect I'd have much higher battery use.

To add my tip, i found i needed to have the watch go through a few charge cycles before i got the best picture of how long my battery would last. My first charge cycle only lasted 3 days, my second and third went double that with double the GPS usage.

I average ~10% per day for activity tracking+24/7 HRM and ~10% per hour for GPS activities.

Interested in this thread as I've posted similar suggestions on my first post here:
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?334805-235-battery-life-post-your-experience!&p=785438#post785438

Will post subsequent updates once I've used it more, only got it 3days ago and even with a decent amount of activity and almost all functions enabled and in use (except for the "Wrist Turn" lighting - couldn't get it working consistently), it's done quite well. I think a key contributor is the firmware: out of the box, it was v3.10. A day later (Tues evening APAC timezone), it self-updated to v3.30.