Low power mode
If you own iPhone, then you probably know that you can activate low power mode on it in several ways. For a long time, this mode was only available on Apple phones, but recently it has spread to other Apple devices, including watches. The absolute basis for extending battery life Apple Watch is to activate the low power mode, which you can achieve by opening control center, where you just need to tap on element with the current state of charge a activate Low Power Mode.
Manual brightness reduction
The display is one of the components that consumes the most power in portable devices. While for example iPhone If your Mac can automatically change the brightness thanks to the ambient light sensor, then in the case of Apple Watch this is not the case and the brightness remains the same. However, you can change the brightness of the apple watch display manually, which can save battery. If you would like to do so, just go to Settings → Display and brightness, where just by tapping on icon of a smaller sun reduce the brightness to lower value.
Economy mode during exercise
They consume the most energy Apple Watch during exercise, as all the sensors that measure your activity are on standby. However, you can activate a special energy-saving mode that deactivates heart activity monitoring when walking and running. Therefore, if you do not need to know information about your heart activity during these activities, you can activate the energy-saving mode, which will ensure a longer battery life. You do so on the iPhone, where in the application Watch open My Watch → Exercise and here turn on possibility Economy mode.
Turn off display lighting
Your display Apple Watch se can light up in different ways. You can either tap it with your finger or turn the digital crown. However, most often we have the display turn on automatically by raising our hand towards our face. This is the most convenient way, however, from time to time there may be poor motion recognition and the display will activate even when you are not looking at it. If this happens often, it can cause a reduction in battery life. You can solve this simply by disabling this feature, which you can do on your iPhone in the application Watch, where you go to Moje watch → Display and brightness a deactivate function Wake up by raising your wrist.
Deactivating heart rate monitoring
On one of the previous pages, we said that there is an energy-saving mode that can prevent monitoring of heart activity when measuring walking and running. However, you should know that you can monitor heart activity on Apple Watch can also be deactivated completely, which allows you to extend their duration - but you will not be informed, for example, about a high or low heart rate, it will not be possible to monitor atrial fibrillation, etc. You should therefore only deactivate if your heart is 100% in order, or if you are using Apple Watch really only for displaying notifications. You do so on iPhone in the application Watch, where you open My watch → Privacy and here activate possibility Heart beat.
Great machines you Apple watch.. one has to turn everything off, turn it into a stupid watch,... and it won't even last two days 😂