Samsung Galaxy Watch watches are one of the most popular wearables on the market and many Android users opt for them to complement their phones. This kind of device allows you to do practically everything without depending on your phone, although its battery life is limited, so we are going to show you some tricks that you can use to your advantage.
The main ‘disadvantage’ of high-end smartwatches is that their autonomy is approximately 24 hours with intensive use. This forces you to charge your smartwatch every day to continue using its features optimally. However, there are several methods at your disposal to reduce energy consumption, but there is one in particular that will help you make your Samsung Galaxy Watch last much more active.
Tricks to improve the battery of your Samsung Galaxy Watch
Just like phones, smartwatches also have battery-saving settings and other options you can tweak to reduce drain. The Samsung Galaxy Watch are no exception and hide many functions inside for this, such as the ones we show you below:
Disable Google Assistant and Bixby
Keeping both voice assistants enabled causes excessive battery drain on your Samsung Galaxy Watch. According to the 9toGoogle medium, if these options are activated, consumption can be 20% between two and four hours of use. The effect of Bixby is not that great, but it also affects the autonomy of the device, so it is worth turning it off by doing the following:
- For the Google Assistant, go to settings.
- Look for the ‘Google’ option and go inside.
- Tap on ‘Assistant’ and turn off ‘Hey Google’.
- For Bixby, access the Samsung assistant app.
- Swipe down and, in the settings, turn off ‘Voice activation’.
Do not have the screen brightness at maximum
Activating automatic brightness is the worst thing you can do with your Samsung Galaxy Watch, since the watch is constantly regulating the brightness of the screen based on the ambient light. So the ideal is to adjust the brightness level manually yourself and it is as easy as following these steps:
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Open the settings of your Samsung Galaxy Watch.Select the ‘Screen’ section.
Select the ‘Screen’ section.
- Tap on ‘Brightness’.
- Adjust the brightness level to your liking
Turn off the Always On Display and set the timeout
One of the options that spends the most battery on your Samsung Galaxy Watch is the always-on screen. Its purpose is to continuously display the content without having to touch the panel or raise your wrist, which causes the screen to consume energy without stopping. We are going to show you how to deactivate it, but it is worth knowing that, thanks to AMOLED technology, you can use a background with a lot of black color to obtain greater autonomy.
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Click on settings.Open the ‘Display’ section.
Open the ‘Display’ section.
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Disable Always On Display or screen always on.
Turn off NFC and GPS when you’re not using them
These kinds of features consume a lot of battery as it also happens in a smartphone, so it is always important to turn them off if they are not being used. For example, activate NFC only when you are going to use your Samsung Galaxy Watch to pay or enable GPS if you need it to access applications such as Google Maps. This will increase the battery life of your smartwatch, and you just have to do the following:
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Access the settings.
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First, go to the ‘Connections’ section and disable NFC.
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Then, tap on ‘Location’ and do the same with the GPS.
Power saving mode helps a lot.
You do not need to complicate us at all to make the battery of Samsung smartwatches last longer, just by starting the battery saver we will get many of the functions to be limited and therefore the duration of the watch will be reduced. multiply times up to double. To activate it you have to follow some very easy steps:
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We slide our finger from top to bottom.
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We move through the fast panels.
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We touch on the battery-shaped icon.
Among some of those that we will notice is that, for example, the pulse recognition sensor will not always be activated or that the screen does not turn on with each movement of our wrist. For everything else, the watch will not lose functions and in any case we have the option of recovering them by turning off this energy saving in the same way.