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Tips to Extend the Battery Life on a Garmin
Fitness Watch
The advertised maximum battery life of a fitness watch is based on minimal use of some
features. This FAQ is designed to help you understand what features and settings have the
biggest effect on battery life. Not all features described in this article will apply to your watch.
Refer to the
Owner's Manual
when you are concerned about battery life include:
How often GPS is used for outdoor recorded activities
Bluetooth connection to a smartphone
Watch Faces that display your current heart rate
Pulse Ox usage
Music usage
Connect IQ watch face usage
Backlight intensity and usage
What can I do to achieve the longest battery life in between charges?
There are some settings that can be adjusted to maximize the battery life on your device.
Examples of System settings that can be adjusted:
Lower the backlight intensity and set the timeout to the lowest option
Disable Alert and Key Tones
Disable or lower intensity of Vibration Alerts
Disable or limit the use of ANT or Bluetooth sensors
Disable Wi-Fi
Disable Bluetooth or Phone connection
Enable Smart Data Recording (see
Examples of Activity-specific settings that can be adjusted:
Turn Alerts off
Disable Auto Scroll and Auto Lap
Enable UltraTrac
Disable GLONASS or Galileo from the GPS settings
Troubleshooting guide
for feature setting compatibility and location. Things to consider
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Summary of Contents for Garmin Vivoactive 3
- Page 1 Troubleshooting guide Tips to Extend the Battery Life on a Garmin Fitness Watch The advertised maximum battery life of a fitness watch is based on minimal use of some features. This FAQ is designed to help you understand what features and settings have the biggest effect on battery life.
- Page 2 Check the settings on your phone If you are still not seeing a notification on your Garmin device, there is likely a setting on the phone or in the Garmin Connect app not configured correctly. Choose your phone type below to...
- Page 3 Confirm that your sleep time settings are correct If you have enabled the Do Not Disturb while sleeping feature on your Garmin watch, you'll want to check to make sure that your sleep time settings are configured correctly. Remember that you will not receive notifications during your sleep window when you have this feature enabled.
- Page 4 WEARING THE WATCH PROPERLY FALSE HEART RATE DETECTION ACCURACY OF WRIST HEART RATE WHEN SWIMMING SKIN TONE CAN AFFECT ACCURACY TATTOOS AND ACCURACY Certain Types of Activities Can Affect Heart Rate Performance Activities that cause flexing of the wrist (ex. rowing, weight lifting, or gripping a tennis racket) may create an effect similar to wearing the watch too tightly and restrict blood flow.
- Page 5 The watch is properly tight when you can move the watch and the skin underneath moves with False Heart Rate Detection Changes in blood volume aren't always caused by changes in heart rate. Your vascular system is like a balloon, so the movement of your body or flexing of large muscle groups can affect the level of blood volume in the wrist area and make it more challenging to accurately detect heart rate among the presence of other signals that have a much larger magnitude and that change more dynamically.
- Page 6 Skin Tone May Affect Heart Rate Accuracy Skin tone can have an effect as the melanin in the skin absorbs some of the light. While Garmin designs our watches to work on all skin tones, the sensor may have to work harder to find a pulse...
- Page 7 The ink, pattern, and saturation of some tattoos can block light from reaching the sensor, potentially making it difficult to get a reliable heart rate reading. Garmin recommends that the watch be worn in an area free of tattoos.
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