Garmin Fenix 6 Default Watch Faces

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Fenix watch face power consumption

Garmin Fenix 6 Default Watch Faces

I’ve often wondered, and have seen a number of people wondering, do non Garmin watch faces take more power? So I thought, heh this sounds like a good topic for a blog post. Garmin do not seem to evaluate the power consumed by watch faces, leaving it up end users to figure out why there battery life seems to have gotten shorter.

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So to start out with I decided on a procedure to measure battery consumed by the watch face. There are lots of things, like pulse ox, GPS, heart rate monitor, notifications that consume reasonable amounts of power. So to eliminate them, I note the battery level and time before I go to sleep, take the watch off, then note the power level when I wake up, the watch is in do not disturb so it should be as quiet battery wise as possible. I do three runs to hope to eliminate other extraneous power blips. The watch is on Software version 9.0. I used defaults on all watch faces. I chose some of my favorite watch faces for my Garmin Fenix 6 pro.

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So let’s start out with a default Garmin watch face, this one:
Power consumption was %/hr: 0.057142857, 0.125200642 and 0.113793103 averaging 0.098

I have a fenix 6 sapphire Asia edition and just arrived in the U.S. It seems my watch does not show the map at all here, but I do have the Coverage Of North and South America installed, according to Garmin Express. Wonder why the map is not showing, thank you for your time! Garmin Support Center. Resetting All Default Settings. You can customize the appearance of the watch face by selecting the layout, colors. From the watch face, hold MENU. Select Watch Face. Press UP or DOWN to preview the watch face options. Select Add New to scroll through additional pre-loaded watch faces. Select Apply to activate a pre-loaded watch face or an installed Connect IQ watch face. If using a pre-loaded watch face, select Customize.

Next up SimpleCassieWF01
Power consumption was 0.255319149, 0.021052632 and 0.120437956 averaging 0.138513514 or 40% more than the stock Garmin

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Next up Instinct tactical
Power consumption was 0.161073826, 0.152542373 and 0.166666667 averaging 0.1599073 or 62% more than the stock Garmin.

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Last but not least Retro Quartz digital
Power consumption was 0.19, 0.23 and 0.258064516 averaging 0.225255973 or 128% more than the Garmin. This is a busy watch face with seconds changing, so not a surprise it’s noticeably higher. Changing options can of course reduce power consumption.

Garmin Fenix 6 Sapphire Watch Faces

So what can we learn? Yes watch faces do seem to vary a LOT. You can also see getting stable results is challenging. Of course I have zero knowledge of the actual coding of the Fenix that might explain the variations. BUT, and this is a BIG BUT, from the highest power consumption to the lowest the difference in 24 hours would be like 3%, so in all … find the watch face you like and rock on!