Heartrate Monitor OFF - BEST Battery Life!

[priscilla55]

Hi everyone,

maybe its not the best solution, but I tried to take off the constant Heart Rate Monitoring every 10 minutes.
The Battery life now is really really good.

For Example:
My 38mm Watch is now 5 hours off the charging cable and I am at 91% Battery.
Yesterday after 13 hours, I was at 75% in the evening.
With Heart Rate Monitor on, I was at 20-25% in the evening.

For me this is no problem, because I was not very interested in the health part of the Apple Watch.
What do you think?

You talk about a solution - but I'm not sure there is a problem. I've had my watch on for 12 hours so far today. The HR monitoring is on and I've had quite a lot of extra notifications today (because of the elections) I'm now at 63%. You must have something else that hammers your battery to need the HR off. I know I'm not at all exceptional with this sort of battery life, from reading other posts on here. You perhaps should check what else it could be.

 

[tivoboy]

Where is this option?

is that in the tracker/activity app on the iphone app?

 

[Mapple86]

is that in the tracker/activity app on the iphone app?

Apple watch iphone app -> privacy settings

 

[bushman4]

What good is turning everything off to increase battery life
The idea is to enjoy all the features

 

[DoveynBruce]

Hi everyone,

maybe its not the best solution, but I tried to take off the constant Heart Rate Monitoring every 10 minutes.
The Battery life now is really really good.

For Example:
My 38mm Watch is now 5 hours off the charging cable and I am at 91% Battery.
Yesterday after 13 hours, I was at 75% in the evening.
With Heart Rate Monitor on, I was at 20-25% in the evening.

For me this is no problem, because I was not very interested in the health part of the Apple Watch.
What do you think?

This is good to know. I will definitely disable HRM on my 42 SS link when it comes in. I can't see any reason why I would want to know my heart rate unless I'm training for a race. Accurate calorie count burned is useless to me since I don't count calories I eat. If I could get 2 days battery life, the watch could come with me on weekend camping trips instead of staying at home!

 

[grenhall]

If you don't use the HR or don't care about collecting data about your health then turn it off.

For me personally I bought the watch for certain aspects and the activity monitoring is a big part of that. I can't complain about battery life. I've never had an Apple device, except for the iPad, which delivered more than specified in the battery department.

I took my watch off charger at 6:30am and I've been fully active throughout the day even exercising for about an hour. Still have 44% charge left. My iPhone 6 Plus has 16% battery in it after 1 day and 20h standby and 13h of usage. It's really going in the right direction.