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Understanding and Using the Power Manager on the Enduro
Power Manager offers various settings to manage battery use:
- Battery Saver controls everyday settings, such as backlight, smartphone connection, or optical heart rate.
- Power Modes allow you to set these features for use in individual activity profiles.
IMPORTANT
Keep the following in mind when using Power Modes or Battery Saver.
Turning on Battery Saver, or using a Power Mode, will stop certain features from working. The features impacted will depend on the settings of the Power Mode or Battery Saver.
How Power Mode and Battery Saver settings can affect other features
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 your phone from your watch
- Use SmartPay
- Pairing with Bluetooth sensors
- Or any other number of features that require a Bluetooth connection
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
- A map of your activity being displayed in Garmin Connect
- Or any other features that rely on GPS
Turning the watch face to low power:
- Display a simplified watch face
Turning the backlight off will stop the light from coming on when Light is pressed.
For watches other than the Enduro that use the Power Manager, refer to Related at the bottom of the page.
Using the Power Manager
Customizing Battery Saver
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.
- Hold Menu
- Select Power Manager
- Select Battery Saver
- Toggling the Status can turn ON or OFF Battery Saver Mode
- Select Edit to make changes
- Select and adjust additional features to customize Battery Saver to your needs
- Watch Face can be set to Low Power,1 saving additional power by only updating the watch face once per a minute
- Phone can enable or disable the smartphone connection
- Activity Tracking will enable or disable all-day activity tracking features, such as sleep tracking, step recording, floors climbed, intensity minutes, and MoveIQ events
- Wrist Heart Rate will enable or disable the optical heart rate sensor
- The backlight will enable or disable the watch's backlight
With each change you make, the watch will display an estimate of how the battery life of your watch will change while in Battery Saver mode.
Preset Power Modes
- 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. This mode is designed for when you may not be wearing the watch on your wrist.
Customizing Power Modes
Power Modes allow you to quickly adjust system settings, activity settings, and GPS settings to extend battery life during an activity. You can create several different Power Modes based on your needs, and apply them to activities to help conserve battery.
- Hold Menu
- Select Power Manager2
- Select Power Modes
- Select an option:
- Select a specific Power Mode to customize
- Select Add New to make a new Power Mode based on your settings. You will be prompted to give the new Power Mode a name
- Select different options to customize and make changes according to your needs
- EXAMPLE: Select Phone to enable or disable smartphone connection when in the specific Power Mode
- Select Done when finished making changes if prompted
With each change you make, the watch will display an estimate of how the battery life of your watch will change while in the selected Power Mode mode.
Watches Compatible with Power Manager
- Enduro
- fenix 6 Series
- Instinct Solar Series
- MARQ Collection
- quatix 6
- tactix Delta Series
See Related below for steps on using the Power Manager with non-Enduro watches. More information about the Power Manager can be found in your owner's manual.
1 When Low Battery mode has enabled, the option to edit watch faces will not be displayed.
2 Power Manager can also be accessed through individual activities, allowing you to control your battery settings for that activity. To access Power Manager settings for an activity: select an activity, hold Menu, select the activity settings, select Power Mode.