Do you want over 50 hours of battery life on your Galaxy Watch 4 without having to
sacrifice your favorite features like the always on display, then you've come to the right place in
this video. I'm going to give you guys 20 battery saving tips, and if you stick through to the end,
I'm going to show you guys how I get over four and a half
days of battery life with minimal charging. That doesn't interrupt my daily routine
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deal before it's gone. The first thing you want to do is change. Your watch face is something
darker because this is an old screen and the light of the images on the screen,
the more battery it's going to use to change the watch face just long press the screen and
select something darker. Alternatively, you can tap the Customize text underneath the watch face,
then swipe across and look for an option called the background color and scroll
down until you find something darker. Next, you want to do is adjust some display
settings, so we're going to swipe up to look at all of our apps, go to the settings application,
go to display, then tap brightness, and we're going
to reduce the brightness to just below 50%. By default, the display brightness is set to just
over 50%. So by reducing it just one notch, it's not going to make much of a difference
for visibility for day to day use. But it will make a difference for battery life.
And if you want, you can even lower the brightness even further to save even more battery life.
Since I'm filming a video right now, I'm going to turn the brightness all the way back up to 100%.
But whenever I'm not filming videos, I do set the brightness to just below 50%.
If we go back a page, the next thing you could do is turn off auto brightness. Turning this off
will stop some background processing and increase your battery life. Just know that if you disabled
auto brightness and you have your brightness set to something really low, like maybe 30%,
then you go outside on a really bright day . It might be hard to see the screen,
so you want to add the brightness shortcut to your quick toggles. To get your quick toggles,
just swipe down from the top of the screen. You can see that I already have my brightness
toggle here, but if you didn't see it there or in any of these other pages, you
could tap the plus icon at the end. Then that will show you all your available quick toggles.
You should see brightness tap that, then you can long press it and drag it to whichever page
you'd like. Scrolling further down, the display settings will get you to another setting you want
to change, and that's your screen time out . You want to set that to the lowest setting of
15 seconds. This is still more than enough time to see all notifications without keeping the screen
on too long and wasting battery life. The next change will need to be done on your phone.
Just open up the Galaxy Wearable application that was installed when you connected your
Galaxy Watch four for the first time, then go to watch settings, then notifications
and make sure that you turn off notifications for anything that's not important.
So if you don't want to get a notification for every single email that comes in,
you can just turn those off. And by reducing the amount of unnecessary notifications,
you'll be able to increase your battery life. If you scroll a bit further down this page,
you'll see advanced notification settings.
If you tap this, you get the option to turn off this feature called it turn on screen.
What this does is automatically turn on your watches screen whenever a notification comes in,
regardless of whether you actually turn your wrist to look at the watch.
Turning this off will make sure that your screen only turns on with notifications
if you turn your wrist to look at the watch when the notification comes in. Since the Watch four
supports advanced sleep tracking, some of you are going to want to sleep with the watch on.
If you do that, you're going to want to make sure that you turn on Good Night mode. This
is going to disable the touch to wake, turn bezel, to wake and turn your wrist to wake
features, and that's going to prevent you from interacting with your watch while you sleep.
The only way to turn the screen on when your night mode is enabled is to press one of the two
side keys. Speaking of sleep tracking, if you want to save more battery life while you're sleeping.
Open up the Samsung Health Application Store all the way to the bottom and tap settings.
Scroll down just a little bit and you'll see blood oxygen during sleep and snore detection options.
If you're concerned about the amount of oxygen you're getting while you sleep, this may be a
good feature to keep on. But if that's something you're not concerned with or you track your blood
oxygen while sleeping for a couple of weeks and saw that there were no issues, you could
just turn this off to save some more battery life. And the same is true for snore detection.
If you're someone who doesn't snore or you've used this feature and found that snoring really
isn't an issue for you, you can tap that. Then they'll bring it the snore detection features
on your phone, and you can just disable it from there. While we're in these settings, if we scroll
back up a little bit. You'll see heart rate and stress measurements. Currently, they're set to
measure continuously, but you can save a bit of battery life if you switch to measuring every
ten minutes or switch to manual only if you switch to manual only. It'll only measure your heart rate
when you manually start a heart rate measurement or when you're doing a workout. And for stress,
you can measure continuously or just manually if you want to save some battery life.
Scrolling further down, there's an option called activities to detect. Now what this
does is automatically detect if you're doing a workout and starts the workout
tracking automatically. If you're someone who always manually starts your workouts and you
don't think you'll ever use this feature, you can turn that off to save a bit more battery life.
Scrolling a little bit further down reveals another option called inactive time alerts. What
this does is alert you when you've been inactive for a set period of time. Right now, it's set to
get alerted after 50 minutes of inactivity. The purpose of these alerts is to remind you
to get up and start moving. But when this feature is enabled, it's always going to be
monitoring your. Movement in the background and using up some of your battery life.
So this is a feature you don't care for. I would definitely turn it off. Now we're
going to change some sound vibration settings by going back into the settings application
and going to sounds and vibration instead of using vibrations for your alerts.
Try using sounds instead because it's going to use less battery life
if you'd prefer to get notifications through vibration instead of sound. There are some
other settings you can change to save battery instead if you scroll down a bit further.
You can tap the vibration text and switch from a long vibration to a short vibration. You
can also scroll down a bit further and switch from a strong vibration to a light vibration.
And if the vibration just isn't noticeable enough for you and you have it on light and short,
try changing just one of these settings at a time instead of turning them both on and using
more battery life. Backing out to the main sound of vibration settings and scrolling down towards
the bottom. You'll see an option called system vibration. These are all the vibrations you
get when interacting with the watch. So when you tap a toggle, you'll feel
a bit of a vibration when you scroll to the bottom of something. When you go back a page,
you feel a little vibrations when doing those actions. Turning this off is a
great way to save some battery life without hindering the performance of the watch.
If you don't use Bixby often, which you should and have a video link at the end of this video
if you want to see some powerful Bixby features. But if even after that you still don't use Bixby,
you can turn off the voice wake up feature to save some more juice.
Just open up the Bixby application, scroll all the way to the bottom.
Tap Settings, Tap Voice, wake up and make sure it's turned off. The default keyboard option on
the Galaxy Watch four is a pretty slow to type on because it's this T9 style typing, and it
takes quite a long time to send any messages. And the more time it takes to send the message,
the more battery life you're using. So if you want to send messages much faster and save battery life
while you're at it, then you're going to want to download an application called Gboard.
So go to your applications and open up the Google Play Store. Tap the search icon,
tap the keyboard and search for Gboard. At the top, you should see Debord, the Google keyboard,
tap that and install it once it's installed. Go to Settings General Input Keyboard List and
default. Default keyboard and change that to Gboard. Now, if I go back into a message, I'll get
a full Curti keyboard with swipe support, which is significantly faster for sending messages.
If you go to a quick toggles and swipe over, you should see an option for Wi-Fi. This can be used
to download music or connect to your phone when you're outside of Bluetooth range. Whenever you're
not downloading music or you're not going to be outside of Bluetooth range from your phone.
You can just keep this feature off to save a bit more battery life, and the same is true
for the GPS. If you're always going to be using your phone's GPS, just turn it off on
your watch to save even more battery life. And if you're someone who doesn't use mobile
payments like Samsung Pay or Google Pay, you can turn off NFC by default whenever you start
navigating somewhere using Google Maps on your phone. It's automatically going to bring up
the navigation on your watch as well. That's really handy if your going to be
walking or biking somewhere, but not quite as useful if you're going to be driving somewhere.
So to disable that feature for driving specifically, go to the Google Maps application.
Tap the search icon. Scroll all the way down and tap Settings.
Tap Auto Launch and disable it for driving. And if you're someone that doesn't bike anywhere,
you can also disable it for biking as well. After playing all the changes up to this
point in the video, I was able to get just over 50 hours of battery life on my 46
millimeter Galaxy Watch four classic. That was with two nights of sleep tracking,
minimal use otherwise, and no exercise tracking. If I were to include exercise tracking,
I would have lost an extra 1% battery for every ten minutes of a basic workout or about
two and a half percent every ten minutes. If the exercise was running outdoors using the
built in GPS on the watch, while also leaving my phone at home and connecting a Bluetooth
earbuds to the watch so I could listen to music on the run. So that's the worst case
scenario for battery usage during a workout. So if I did a basic 30 minute workout every day,
then my battery life would have been just less than two days. And if I was also doing other
things like using the watch for navigation or sending a ton of messages with the watch,
then it obviously would have reduced my battery life a bit more.
The way I got over four and a half days of battery life was to simply put the
watch on the charger. Whenever I was getting ready for the day or getting ready for bed,
the time it takes me to shower, get changed, brush my teeth was more than enough time
each day to keep the watch running for that four and a half days. To be more specific,
it's about 30 minutes of charging a day, and it doesn't interrupt my daily routine at all. Now,
keep in mind, this is battery life without ever turning off the always on display.
If I were to turn off the always on display, I would increase my battery life to about 62 hours
without ever putting the watch on a charger. And if I do the same 30 minutes of charging
every day with the always on display turned off, then I'd get about ten days of battery life.
Now, let's take a look at some bonus things you could do to extend the battery life
even further. If you go to your settings, then scroll down and to get to advanced features,
then scroll down towards the bottom. You see a section called gestures, and in
this section are three different gestures you can do to answer calls, dismiss alerts and calls, or
quick launch an application. These are pretty cool features that I personally like to keep on.
But if these are features that you don't really use that often,
then you can turn them off. And in case you're curious, the answer calls gesture lets you answer
call by simply raising and lowering your wrist a couple of times to dismiss alerts and calls.
You'll just have to rotate your wrist a couple of times,
and if you want to quick launch an application, you would just have to turn your wrist down twice
quickly within five seconds of the screen, turning on circles to demonstrate that.
Let me go ahead and turn my screen off. Turn it back on. Turn our wrist down twice, and you'll
see that it takes me right to my workouts. So as you can see, these are pretty cool gestures
and I personally like to keep these on. But if it's something that you don't think you'll
use, you can turn these off to save a little bit more battery life. If you want your Watch four to
charge it faster, you could turn off the charging information that shows up on the screen.
Watch charging to do that, turn your screen on. Go to Settings. Scroll down to display,
then throw all the way to the bottom and turn off this show charging info toggle. Now,
when I turn the screen off, it's not going to show any information while it's charging
and be able to charge a little bit faster. And if I ever want to check the charge status,
I can just turn the screen on, pull down the quick toggles and I can see the charge
percentage right at the top. If you're in a bind and really need to save some power quickly,
you can always turn on power saving mode by going to your quick toggles
and tapping the power saving mode toggle. And if you really need to save some battery,
you can go to your settings, scroll down to battery, then scroll to the bottom until you see
an option called Watch only if I enable this. It's going to turn my watch into literally just
a watch. I won't get notifications and won't be able to do any of those sorts of things.
All I can do is press one of the buttons to see the time you got to this mode.
Just hold the button for a few seconds. If you want to go for power save mode, you can enable
Grayscale by triple tapping with two fingers. This will help you save a bit of battery life
without having to sacrifice core features. To enable this feature, go to Settings
Accessibility, scroll down to Advanced Settings, then scroll down to two finger or triple tap, then
enable Grayscale. Once that's enabled, I'll be able to triple tap with two fingers on any screen
to either enable or disable Grayscale mode. You can also invest in an extra charge or two
and keep one next to your bed. Another one at your desk if you have a desk, job or on account,
we typically plug your phone in to charge or maybe even keep it in your car if you want to
charge on your way to and from work. These are also available at Best Buy,
and I'll have links to these in the description as well. If you want to see the first ten
things you should do when you get your Galaxy Watch, you can click this link right here.
If you want to see why Bixby is amazing on the Galaxy Watch four, you can click that link right
over there. And if you already have a Galaxy Watch and you want to see the top 20 unknown
features, you can click this laid down here. And if you want to see more deep dove coverage,
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there. That's it for this decades old. God bless, guys are catching the next one.