Every drop in the battery percentage is felt even more.
Why should we expect less from asmarterdevice?
I understand the argument, but is it worth the hit in battery life?
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In reality, you’re probably not actively looking at your smartwatch screen very often.
A quick glance to check the time only takes a few seconds.
Modern smartwatches are pretty good at detecting when you lift your arm to look at your watch.
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We’ll use the Apple Watch as an example.
With some background activities disabled, an Apple Watch Series 7 can lastaround 49 hourswith the Always-on Display enabled.
However, with AOD disabled and “Wake on Wrist Raise” enabled, it lasts around 67 hours.
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You probably won’t have those same background activities disabled, but it shows the difference the AOD makes.
There’s no need to adjust the brightness for every situation manually.
There’s a good chance you already know this, but it’s easy to accidentally leave auto-brightness disabled.
Then your watch won’t dim the display when needed to save battery.
On an Apple Watch, you don’t have to do anything.
Auto-brightness is the default setting, and it’s possible for you to manually tweak the brightness on command.
Go to parameters > Display & Brightness and tap the sun icons to adjust the brightness.
For an Android smartwatch with Wear OS, the auto-brightness setting can be found in prefs > Display.
It may be called “Adaptive Brightness” or “Auto Brightness.”
So, limiting the amount of time the display is on will increase battery life.
Another way you could do that is by preventing every little notification from waking up the screen.
Just toggle it on and only important stuff will get through.
For an Apple Watch, go to tweaks > Focus > Do Not Disturb and toggle the switch on.
you’re able to alsouse one of several Focus Modesorcreate your own.
You’ll also have the option to turn it on for one, two, or three days.
On a Samsung Galaxy Watch, it’s called “Watch Only” mode.
As the name implies, a"Watch Only" modeessentially turns your smartwatch into a dumbwatch.
Everything is disabled, and you could only see the clock.
This can extend the life of your watch by severalweeks.
On a Samsung Galaxy Watch, go to parameters > Battery and gear Care > Battery > Watch Only.
Tap the “Turn On” button to enable it.
Apple Watches used to have a feature called “Power Reserve” that could be enabled from the options.
Thankfully, battery life in smartwatches has somewhat improved over the years.
It’s not terribly difficult to get from morning to bedtime with juice to spare.
