• thatsnothowyoudoit
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    1 year ago

    If you don’t need the new features, they have made massive improvements to battery life—they’re just hidden behind the new features a s5 owner might not care about or need.

    When I got my S6, I disabled:

    • Pulse OX
    • Always on display
    • wake on lift
    • noise monitoring

    I also set the vibration to the lightest/most subtle mode.

    When new, I was getting 56 hours.

    I’m down to about 48 hours after just over two years.

    Caveat: I use a Bluetooth HRM when working out. When I workout with the watch as the always-on HRM battery life is shortened accordingly.

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      1 year ago

      I did not know you could disable noise monitoring, or as I like to call it ‘hand is outside the window while driving’ alert.