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How to Use Battery or Power Manager on Fitness Watches

The Battery or Power Manager feature can be used to extend your watches battery life. This feature offers three settings:

  • Battery Saver: This setting turns off certain features to maximize battery life.

  • Battery Percentage: This setting displays the battery life as a remaining percentage.

  • Battery Estimates: This setting displays the battery life as a remaining time estimate.

When the Battery Saver setting is enabled, it will disable or change settings you may have previously customized on your watch. 

NOTE: Once Battery Saver is disabled, your previous settings and customizations will return.

For instructions on how to access Battery or Power Manager on your watch refer to your owner's manual.


Compatible Watch List

  • D2™ Air X10

  • Forerunner® 165 | Forerunner® 165 Music

  • Forerunner® 255 | Forerunner® 255S | Forerunner® 255 Music | Forerunner® 255S Music

  • Forerunner® 265 | Forerunner® 265S

  • Forerunner® 955 | Forerunner® 955 Solar

  • Forerunner® 965

  • Venu® 2 | Venu® 2S

  • Venu® 2 Plus

  • Venu® 3 | Venu® 3S

  • Venu® Sq 2 | Venu® Sq 2 - Music Edition

  • vívoactive® 5

  • vívoactive® 6


What Settings Are Affected By Battery Saver Mode?

Features and data impacted by using Battery Saver mode can be found below. 

NOTE: Some features and data vary depending on your device. The exact list can be found on your watch after enabling Battery Saver. 

Backlight Settings:

Your backlight settings will be disabled on the watch while battery saver is enabled.

Brightness Settings:

Your brightness setting will be reduced to the lowest setting.

Gesture Settings:

Your gesture settings will be disabled for both during and not during an activity.

Timeout Settings:

Your timeout setting will be set to short.

Music Settings:

Music controls will be disabled on the watch while battery saver is enabled.

Phone Connectivity:

Phone connected features will be disabled when battery saver is enabled. To see a full list of the connected features, see your owner's manual

Wi-Fi Settings:

Wi-Fi will be disabled on the watch while batter saver is enabled.

Watch Face:

Your watch face will be changed automatically to a simplified Garmin watch face and this cannot be altered. An example can be found below:

example of Watch Face Battery Saver Mode


What Data is Affected By Battery Saver Mode?

The wellness data listed below will be disabled while battery saver mode is enabled.

  • Body Battery™ data

  • Heart Rate

    • The heart rate lights will continue to illuminate periodically in order for other features to be used, such as Garmin Pay. However, heart rate will not be tracked during this time. 

  • Pulse Ox

  • Respiration

  • Sleep

  • Stress