Apple Watch can track your workouts, from cycling to rowing to the elliptical at your local gym. This is a battery-intensive feature, though, what with all the heartbeat monitoring, GPS connections to your iPhone, and the like.
Here’s how to conserve your Apple Watch battery life by turning off all that juice-hogging stuff while you run or walk, so you can keep your wearable’s power at optimum for a long day between charges.
First up, you’ll want to launch the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Once there, swipe down to (and then tap) the Workout button.
Now you’ll see two toggle switches, one for Show Goal Metric, which will let you see what your goal is when you’re actually working out, and the other is Power Saving Mode, which will turn off the heart rate sensor for running and walking workouts.
Your smartwatch will still calculate calories (though probably less accurately) as well as tracking your distance, pace and elapsed time — and your Apple watch battery life will be much better for it.
Now you can head out on a long run without worrying that your Apple Watch will bite it and shut down on you when you need it most.
Source: Apple
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5 responses to “Exercise without your Apple Watch feeling the burn”
Really? So what the Apple watch for if I turn everything off?
what was the purpose of this article? Turn off debit and credit card so you can’t buy apple watch and track steps and GPS with phone. This was so pointless an article
In my experience with the Apple Watch, I really don’t have any issues with battery life. On the days I don’t exercise, I’m left with over 50% battery. On the days I do, I exercise for about 1 hour, use the built in activity app (so monitor heart rate constantly, etc), and I’m left with about 35% battery life…
Granted, I’m not running marathons, but if you are the sort of person running marathons, do you really need to be told to stand up, or try and burn off a few extra calories in your day? Most people running marathons know there are better suited trackers out there that don’t require an iPhone – Garmin GPS watches, etc.
Dunno, I guess I’m wondering what the big deal is with the battery life. I took my old watch off every night anyway, so it just meant putting the charger right where I place my watch every night when getting into bed.
I don’t believe the Apple Watch was trying to compete against things like the Garmin GPS watches (although I could be wrong – if I am, then they were stupid in thinking it could). I bought the watch as an “encouragement” to get up and move more. I can honestly say that I’m actively going out of my way to meet the stand, and exercise goals. Personally, I think this is what the watch was aimed at doing – getting lazy asses like me, moving more. So far, its done its job…
The whole article sums up into a one “toggle button” on apple watch setting. Like others said, unless you start a run with “<5%" battery remaining, I think this article is mute as no issues with battery life
Or you could slap it on the charger when you are in the shower after your workout.