Smartwatch: save battery - 5 clever tips
In the current smartwatches, the rather weak battery is the biggest weakness. With these tips on battery saving, you can still significantly extend the runtime. Even if you consider only some of the factors, you will notice a significant increase in runtime.
5. Saving the battery on the smartwatch: brightness is the most important factor
The maximum brightness is the biggest battery eater in smartwatches. If you use the minimum brightness, this ensures a significantly longer runtime, but you will no longer see anything in direct sunlight.
- Most smartwatches do not have a brightness sensor like the smartphones. Automatic darkening of the display in dark rooms is therefore not possible.
- One of the few smartwatches with a brightness sensor is the Motorola Moto 360. There is no such sensor in the Apple Watch, LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live.
- For the Apple Watch you will find the adjustment in the "Settings" app under "Brightness & Text Size".
- Swipe from the normal watch face on Android Wear from left to right until the "Settings" option is displayed. There is the option "Adjust brightness".
- The ASUS Zenwatch, LG G Watch, LG G Watch R, Moto 360 and Samsung Gear Live have a sunlight mode. If you press the On / Off button three times, the display briefly switches to maximum brightness.
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4.Save smartwatch battery: Deactivate constant display
There are various setting options for the display, especially the "Alwalys On Mode" as a giant battery killer.
- The "Always-On" setting is only available for Android Wear, the Apple Watch cannot be permanently active.
- With always-on, the display of the smartwatch does not switch off completely in standby. Only a dimming mode is activated, which makes the display darker and in black and white.
- With a tap of the finger on the watch or when lifting the arm, the display immediately switches back to the original brightness and activates the color display.
- The advantage here is that you can read the current notifications and the time on the watch at any time without activating the watch.
- At the same time, the feature also costs a lot of battery life. At this point, you have to decide whether the battery gain weighs more than the always-on mode.
- To activate or deactivate, simply tap "Display always on" in the Android Wear settings.
3. Deactivate vibration function to save battery with the smartwatch
At first glance, the vibration function is not a real battery-eater, but in fact the vibration motor of the smartwatch eats a lot of electricity.
- You can save battery if you deactivate the vibration function of the smartwatch. Then the vibration motor does not have to run. Especially if many notifications are activated, this significantly increases the runtime.
- If you have your smartphone in front of you in the office during the day and receive every notification, you can confidently switch off the vibration function of the smartwatch.
- When you're on the go, just remember to turn vibration on again.
- With the Apple Watch you will find the option in the Settings app under "Sounds & Haptics". With Android Wear you have to deactivate the function on the smartphone.
2. Smartwatch: save battery notifications
One of the biggest battery eaters is definitely the notifications: with every incoming notification, the display is activated and the vibration motor switches on.
- Especially if you have activated the notifications for many apps, the watch may only activate itself for one notification every 10 minutes.
- Disable the notifications you don't need. This can include, for example, the notification when the step goals are reached.
- In particular, deactivating GoogleMail notifications is worthwhile because it also deactivates the background activity of the mail. This means there is no need to search for new mails in a specific interval.
- You have to regulate the notifications both with an Android watch and with the Apple Watch in the connected smartphone.
1. Disable Google Fit and certain sensors
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- Some sports apps permanently access sensors. If a sports app continuously measures your heart rate while running, it consumes an extremely large amount of battery.
- The Google Fit service also consumes a lot of battery because the number of steps is permanently measured on the watch.
- To deactivate Google Fit in Android Wear, go to "Start" in the menu under Google Now and select "Fit". Swipe left to go to the "Google Fit app activated" item and turn off the feature.
- Some smartwatches also have a GPS sensor. If it permanently tracks your position, this also costs a lot of battery. Since your smartphone has a GPS sensor, you rarely need the watch.
