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But these can quickly drain your battery not ideal when you’re training or away from home.

Check battery usage

The first place to start is your watch’s tweaks app.

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Often, you’ll get an indication about whether the app was active in the background or not.

Maybe youd only like texts from your main messaging platform to appear on your watch or certain social networks.

If you choose to limit certain notifications, this should make a difference to your watchs battery life.

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If you’re an Apple wearer, you could alsoactivate the Apple Watch’s low power modeto conserve battery.

So if you gotta preserve battery, it’s wise to turn this off.

So, disabling haptics and switching your smartwatch to silent mode can help it last longer between charges.

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