How to Use Power Manager on Marine Watches

• quatix 6

• quatix 6X Solar

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Turning Off Bluetooth Will Stop the Following Functions:

• Pairing with Garmin Connect app

• Syncing with Garmin Connect app

• Receiving smart notifications

• Receiving weather information

• Listen to music through Bluetooth headphones

• Controlling music on a mobile phone from the watch

• Setting up or editing Garmin Pay settings

• Pairing with Bluetooth sensors

• Or any other number of features that require a Bluetooth connection

Turning Off Wi-Fi Will Stop the Following Functions:

• Syncing audio content from third-party providers such as Spotify or Amazon Music

• Activity uploads over Wi-Fi

• Software updates over Wi-Fi

• Downloading workouts and training plans over Wi-Fi

Turning Off Wrist Heart Rate Will Stop the Following Functions:

• Heart rate monitoring

• Sleep tracking and metrics

• PulseOx reading (can be toggled separately)

• New VO2 Max scores

• Or any other features that require Wrist Heart Rate

Turning Off Activity Tracking Will Stop the Following Functions:

• Step tracking

• Floors climbed

• Sleep monitoring

Turning Off GPS for Activities Will Stop the Following Functions:

• Track recording

• GPS usage for distance

• GPS usage for pace

• The map activity displayed in Garmin Connect

• Any other features that rely on GPS

Turning the Watch Face to Low Power:

• Displays a simplified watch face

Turning Off Backlight:

• Stops the light button from powering on pressed
  

Battery Saver allows the user to quickly change the watch's settings to improve the overall estimated battery life. Use battery saver while not recording activities.

1. Hold Menu

2. Select or scroll to Settings

3. Select Power Manager

4. Select Battery Saver

5. Choose Status to toggle Battery Saver mode On or Off

When enabling or disabling Battery Saver mode, the watch will estimate the battery life changes with this setting.

Battery Saver is designed for you to quickly change some settings of your watch to improve the overall estimated battery life. This is good for conserving battery while not recording activities.

1. Hold Menu

2. Select or scroll to Settings

3. Select Power Manager

4. Select Battery Saver

   • Toggling the Status can turn ON or OFF Battery Saver mode

5. Select Edit to adjust additional features to customize Battery Saver 

   • Watch Face can be set to Low Power¹, saving additional power by only updating the watch face once per minute

   • Music can be enabled or disabled, allowing for usage of the music player or not

   • Phone can enable or disable the smartphone connection

   • Wi-Fi can enable or disable the Wi-Fi connection 

   • Activity Tracking will enable or disable all-day activity tracking features, such as sleep tracking, step recording, floors climbed, intensity minutes, and Move IQ events

   • Wrist Heart Rate will enable or disable the optical heart rate sensor

   • Pulse Oximeter will enable or disable all-day acclimation mode²

   • The backlight will enable or disable the watch's backlight

With each change made, the watch displays an estimate of how the watch's battery life will change while in Battery Saver mode.

• Max Battery turns off all customizable power features and sets GPS recording to Ultratrac to provide the longest time between charges

• Jacket Mode will disable wrist heart rate but will not make changes to other settings. Set to this mode when not wearing the device on the wrist

Power Modes allow for quick adjustments to system settings, activity settings, and GPS settings to extend battery life during an activity—multiple Power Modes based on activities to aid in conserving battery life.

1. Hold Menu

2. Select or scroll to Settings

3. Select Power Manager³

4. Select Power Modes

5. Select an option:

   • Select a specific Power Mode to customize

   • Select Add New to make a new Power Mode based on chosen settings. Prompt displays to name the new Power Mode.

6. Customizing allows the user to make changes according to the user's needs. 

   • Example: Select Phone to enable or disable smartphone connection when in the specific Power Mode

7. Select Done when finished making changes if prompted

With each change made, the watch displays an estimate of how the battery life changes while in the selected Power Mode.

Customizing Battery Alerts

1. Hold Menu

2. Select or scroll to Settings

3. Select Power Manager

4. Select Battery Saver

5. Select Low Battery Alert

6. Select the desired alert

   Example: 1 Day (2h GPS/Music)
   The information in the parentheses indicates that when using GPS/Music, the alert notifies when the watch has 2 hours of battery remaining.

In Activity Battery Alerts

Enable or disable battery alerts for activities. Options display to help prolong the battery estimate when a battery alert occurs during a workout, allowing the user to get the extra battery to complete an activity.  Similar to options found under the Battery Saver.

1. Press Start

2. Select an activity

   Example: Hike

3. Hold Menu

4. Select (activity name) Settings

5. Select Power Mode

6. Toggle ON or OFF Low Battery Alert