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I'm going to bet that you didn't know

that you could schedule your Galaxy

watches always on display and power

saving modes based on things like time

or location to dramatically improve your

Galaxy watch's battery life and you

definitely didn't know that I have a

nearly 200 Page Deep dive guide on every

Galaxy watch ranging from the Galaxy

watch 4 to the brand new Galaxy watch

Ultra that's loaded with an insane

amount of tips tricks and hidden

features that you haven't seen anywhere

else the guide link is below if you're

interested otherwise let's take a look

at more than 20 incredible battery

saving

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tips white watch faces on a Galaxy watch

can look incredible but since this uses

an OLED display any black pixels are

actually completely off and any white

pixels are using the most amount of

power so an easy way to save a lot of

battery life is to Simply change your

watch face from a light colored watch

face to a dark colored watch face this

one un Change can literally save you

hours of battery life touch sensitivity

is an incredible feature to be able to

use your Galaxy watch with gloves on but

if you take your gloves off you should

always come back to your quick panel and

disable the touch sensitivity option

there's no sense using that extra power

if you don't need it access to your GPS

location through your Galaxy watch is

really useful for things like tracking

workouts or if you're going to be using

your Galaxy watch for turn BYT

navigation but it's really wasting

energy if you aren't working out

navigating to quickly disable location

tracking just tap the location toggle in

your quick panel and if you ever forget

to turn that toggle back on before

starting a workout that won't be a

problem because if you start a workout

that supports GPS tracking you'll

actually get a notification before

starting the workout to turn the

location tracking back on once you go

ahead and tap that toggle and swipe back

your workout will start and GPS tracking

will be enabled if you pull down your

quick panel and swipe across and tap

your settings gear then go to buttons

and gestures and scroll down a bit

you'll see some really useful gesture

options you've got the double pinch

shake to dismiss and knock knock

gestures and these are really handy for

things like opening up background

applications starting or stopping your

music dismissing notifications or even

opening up a specific application all

without ever touching your Galaxy watch

however if you find that you're rarely

using some of these features or maybe

you don't use them at all it's best to

turn off the ones you don't use to save

a bit of battery life because I've

personally noticed that if I have all of

these gestures enabled my battery does

die notably faster than if I have them

all disabled Universal gestures are an

incredibly powerful way to interact with

your Galaxy watch without ever touching

it this will let you do anything from go

to your app screen to jumping into

specific applications and even scrolling

through those applications and there's

even a cursor mode that you control by

the angle of your wrist and if you hold

the cursor over the button for a moment

it'll actually tap the button for you

but as you can imagine one of the big

downsides with this feature is that it

uses a lot of battery life fortunately

there are a couple things you can do to

reduce the battery consumption the first

is to jump into your settings then

scroll all the way to the bottom and tap

accessibility then scroll down a bit

more to interaction and dexterity then

into the universal gestures menu and if

you scroll down a bit here you'll see an

option here called autoactivation you're

going to want to make sure this is

disabled what this will do is prevent

Universal gestures from always being on

which will definitely save some battery

life the second thing you can do is

anytime you're done using the universal

gestures just put your palm on the

screen this will turn your screen off

then wait a couple seconds until the

yellow outline disappears that will

guarantee that Universal Gestures does

actually turn off I've personally

noticed that if I wasn't intentional

about shutting this feature off and I

just kind of put my Wrist down and went

about my business a lot of times I'd

turn my wrist back up and it would still

be active and then that's going to use a

whole lot of extra battery life the last

and most obvious thing you can do is

just disable Universal gestures whenever

you're not using them this next tip is

going to save you literal hours of

battery life and that has to do with the

different voice assistants and it

doesn't matter whether you're using

Bixby or Google Assistant this tip is

going to make a big difference and that

tip is to turn off the voice wakeup

features these use a tremendous amount

of power in the background to disable

voice wake up for Bixby is actually

really easy

just hold the home button to activate

Bixby and say turn off Voice wake

up I turned off voice W up and for

Google Assistant you just have to swipe

up to see your apps then tap the

settings app and scroll down until you

get to the Google option then go ahead

and tap that then tap assistant then

disable the hey Google toggle this one

change made a dramatic difference in

battery life for me and you can still

have quick access to these assistants as

you're saw all you have to do is hold

the home button to activate Bixby and

you can switch the home button to Google

Assistant if you prefer by swiping up

tapping settings then scrolling down to

buttons and gestures then tap the press

and hold option and change it to Google

Assistant now if I hold the home button

it'll open up Google assistant and if

you want access to both assistants

really easily you can have the home

button set to one assistant then swipe

up on your app screen find the other

assistant long press it and drag it to

the top of your app screen now no matter

which assistant you want to use you can

just hold the home button or just swipe

and tap and you could also of course set

shortcuts to these assistants right on

your watch face using complications just

tap a complication that supports opening

apps and tap the assistant you want to

use now if I go back to my home screen

and tap the complication area you'll see

that it immediately starts the assistant

the default screen brightness on the

Galaxy watch is more than bright enough

for day-to-day use so if you pull down

your quick panel then swipe over to your

brightness toggle and long press it you

can disable the Adaptive brightness

option then tap your brightness and

reduce it by one or two notches now if I

go back to my watch face you can see

that it's still plenty visible but

dropping just those one or two

brightness levels is going to make a

significant impact to battery life the

one caveat with this is that if you step

out into really bright sunlight the

screen's not going to automatically

brighten to make it easier to see so if

you're going to use this method to save

some battery life I do recommend pulling

your quick panel down swiping all the

way to the end and tapping the plus icon

here then swiping back and grabbing your

brightness quick toggle long pressing it

and dragging it to your first page and

now just press the home button now

anytime you step outside on a really

bright day you're just one swipe a tap

and a second swipe away from getting the

brightness all the way back up to see

easily on a bright day sleep tracking on

the Galaxy watch is a great feature to

help you guys get some meaningful

insights on your health so I don't

recommend taking your Galaxy watch off

to charge at night however there are a

few things you can do to help improve

battery life while you sleep and the

first thing is to enable something

called sleep mode to do this swipe down

from the top edge of your screen to

reveal your quick panel find the modes

icon and tap it then tap sleep mode this

is going to do a few things most

importantly it's going to turn off your

gesture and touch wakeup features so if

I dismiss my screen here you'll see that

it completely turns off and if I turn my

wrist the screen's not going to turn

back on even if I tap the screen it

won't turn on at all and if I had a

rotating bezel I could even physically

rotate that bezel and the screen still

would not turn on the only way to turn

it on when sleep mode is enabled is to

press one of the physical buttons and

even still that's only going to take you

to the sleep mode screen with your time

and the option to turn sleep mode off to

get to your home screen you going have

to press the home button a second time

and now you'll be able to interact with

your watch like normal but when you're

done interacting with your watch and you

dismiss the screen it's going to go

right back into that sleep mode and this

is extremely useful for preventing your

screen from turning on anytime you just

roll over at night or move your arms and

that is going to save a bit of battery

life the second thing you can do to

improve battery life while you sleep is

to disable any features that you don't

need to do this swipe up to see all of

your apps then tap the Samsung health

application scroll all the way to the

bottom and tap settings then scroll down

and tap sleep and here you can disable

any features that you're not using so if

you've checked your blood oxygen for a

few weeks and you've seen that your

oxygen levels look pretty normal while

you're sleeping there's really no sense

in keeping this measurement on and the

same is true for snore detection if you

notice that you're not snoring there's

really no point in keeping that on using

more battery life and the last option

down here is measuring your skin

temperature while you sleep and this is

only really used for tracking your

menstrual cycle and trying to predict

when the next one's going to happen so

if you're not using menstrual cycle

tracking definitely keep this one off so

by disabling sensors you're not using

you'll be able to get even more battery

life out of your Galaxy watch heart rate

monitoring is one of the core functions

of a smartwatch so I don't really

recommend it turning this off however

you can improve battery life with this

feature if you've already been tracking

your heart rate for a few weeks and you

realize that there's really nothing

concerning with your heart rate

throughout the day so something you can

do to save a bit of battery life is to

go back to your watch face swipe up to

reveal your appli

and go into the Samsung health

application then scroll all the way to

the bottom and tap settings then heart

rate and instead of measuring

continuously you can measure it once

every 10 minutes while you're still this

will give you a good reading of your

resting heart rate without having to use

a ton of battery life and this doesn't

affect exercise heart rate readings as

soon as you start an exercise it is

going to measure continuously This only

affects heart rate measurements while

you're not doing a workout and while you

can set your heart rate measurements to

manual only

I don't recommend it because you're not

going to save that much battery life

going from once every 10 minutes to

manual only plus you'd miss out on all

of your heart rate tracking data if you

back out of the heart rate measurements

and scroll down a bit you'll see that

you can also change your stress

measurements for most people I recommend

just keeping stress measurements set to

continuous because having a lot of

stress in your life can have a lot of

real physical effects on your body and

having the ability to know when your

body's getting really stressed is pretty

useful because then you can do something

like the breathing exercise in the

stress monitoring app or maybe take some

time in prayer or reading the Bible

however if after a few weeks of

measuring your stress continuously you

see that you never really have that high

of stress levels you can set this to

manual only to save a bit more battery

life if you swipe up on your watch face

then go into the Samsung health

application and scroll all the way to

the bottom then tap settings then scroll

down most of the way down you see this

option here called activities to detect

and and what this will do is

automatically start a workout if it

detects that you're doing any of these

activities but in order to do this it's

not only looking at your heart rate but

it's also looking at how your watch is

physically moving around and it's always

monitoring that so if you don't mind

manually starting all of your workouts

you can just disable this feature and

save a bit of battery life and a quick

tip for being able to start your

favorite exercises much faster is togg

just go back to your home screen swipe

to the right to see your tiles then

swipe all all the way to the right and

tap the add tiles option and scroll down

to the Samsung health section and in

there you'll see exercises if you tap

this it'll add an exercise shortcuts

tile if you long press it again and tap

edit you can change which workouts are

shown and once you selected your

workouts just swipe in from the left

side to save the changes so having these

shortcuts makes the autodetect workouts

feature a lot less useful if we jump

back into the Samsung health application

then back into the Samsung Health

settings

and scroll down a bit again you'll see

this inactive time option and what this

does is alert you that you've been

inactive after about 50 minutes of not

doing anything and it kind of works as a

reminder for you to get up and start

walking around a bit but if you don't

have a desk job and you're moving around

all day anyway then all this feature is

going to do is use up battery life in

the background as it's measuring your

movement and in that case you can just

disable it to save a bit more battery

life every time a notification comes in

your Galaxy watch will do some

combination of making a sound

vibrating and turning the screen on and

if you have all notifications turned on

for your Galaxy watch it's going to be

using a lot of extra power for

notifications you might not even care

about so to get back some battery life

you're going to want to jump into the

Galaxy wearable application that was

installed when you connected your Galaxy

watch to your phone then you want to go

to watch settings then notifications

then app notifications and scroll

through these apps and make sure that

you only have notifications enabled for

applications that you actually want to

get notified from and once you're done

adjusting your app notifications you

should back out one page and change a

few more settings for even more battery

saving the first thing you should do

from this page is tap these show

notifications on watch option and make

sure it's set to show alerts when phone

not in use if it's set to show alerts

even when phone in use anytime you get a

notification on your phone while you're

using your phone not only will you see

the notification appear on the phone but

your watch is also going to show that

notification using up more battery life

so I'm going to set this back to show

alerts when phone not in use and back

out of here the next thing you should do

is open up the advanced notification

settings and disable the turn on screen

option what this does when it's enabled

is automatically turn on your watch's

screen anytime a notification comes in

even if you're not actually looking at

the watch if this is disabled the only

time the notification pops up on the

watch is when you get out of the ring or

vibration and you actually turn your

wrist to look at your watch then you'll

see the notification but the screen's

not just going to turn on by itself

you'll also want to make sure that autot

turnon watch notifications for new phone

apps is also disabled because if this is

enabled anytime you install a new

application you'll start getting those

notifications on your watch even if you

don't want them while we're talking

about notifications another thing you

can do is pull down your quick panel and

tap this little sound icon and switch it

to sound mode this will make it so that

any notifications that come in would

just use sound instead of vibration and

the reason this is useful is because the

vibration motor on your watch uses up

more power than the speaker so anything

you can do to reduce the amount of

vibrations will help save some battery

life but if you do prefer to have

vibrations on for your notifications

there's another thing you can do to save

battery life even with vibrations to do

that just long press this toggle and

scroll down a bit and tap vibration and

change the vibration duration from long

to short then scroll down and set the

vibration intensity from strong to light

this will allow you to keep vibrations

while still saving some battery life and

if you find that you're not noticing the

vibration when notifications come in and

you're missing notifications you can

just jump back into this menu and set

just the vibration duration to long to

see if that makes a difference and if it

doesn't you can set that back to short

and try setting vibration intensity to

strong this way you're still getting at

least a little bit of battery savings

but of course if you're still not

noticing the vibrations then you are

going to want to set that back to long

and strong because it's more important

to have a better watch experience than

just save some battery life and here's a

quick bonus setting that won't make a

huge difference but it will save a

little bit of battery life if we back

out of here and scroll down to system

vibration you can disable the different

system vibration options to save a

little bit more battery life but

honestly these won't make a terribly big

difference this is really just for

trying to squeeze every ounce of battery

out the always on display on the Galaxy

watch which is a feature that gives you

a slightly dimmed diversion of your

watch face whenever you're not actively

using your Galaxy watch is an incredible

feature that makes the Galaxy watch look

more like a traditional analog watch

whenever you're not actively interacting

with it but as you can imagine this does

consume a lot of power since the display

never fully turns off but there's two

ways to fix this the first and most

obvious method is to just manually turn

off the always on display when you don't

need it by tapping the always on display

icon in your quick panel now if I

dismiss the screen it'll just be a black

screen but this method isn't the best

because anytime you want to have it back

on you have to remember to actually turn

it back on manually the second way to do

this is by scheduling your always on

display to only turn on during specific

times of the day or maybe when you're

just out of your home to schedule your

alwayson display just pull down your

quick panel find the modes icon then

long press it then tap any of the modes

then scroll down to the bottom and tap

set on phone this will open that mode on

your phone and allow you to start

customizing it but you don't want to

customize that mode instead you want to

tap this back arrow to go back one page

to see all of your modes then at the

bottom you're going to tap add mode from

here you can select a mode icon as well

as a mode color then you can change the

name of your mode to something like aod

for always on display then tap done and

this will take you to the customization

page for that mode and instead of having

it turn on manually tap this turn on

automatically option so if you want your

always on display to turn on only in a

specific time period you can just tap

time period and choose which specific

days of the week and which time you want

it to turn on or off once you've picked

your days and time just tap done and if

you want to have several different time

periods like maybe on weekdays you only

want it on from 9:00 to 6:00 p.m. but on

weekends you want on for a different

period of time just tap time period

again select the weekends instead select

the time on your weekends and tap done

if you want to have the always on

display turn on only when you're away

from your home tap the place option

instead then tap home and if you haven't

already set up your home address it'll

ask you to do that then you can choose

how big of an area to activate the mode

with you can have the area be as wide as

1.2 Mi or as narrow as .1 Mi and lastly

you can choose to have it activate when

you leave that area or when you arrive

at that area so if this is your home

address you can tap when I leave and

anytime you leave that area your always

on display is going to automatically

turn on and as you can see you can stack

different conditions so I do have a time

period and a place both enabled here and

if you want to see other conditions you

can scroll to the bottom and tap add

condition and now you can get really

specific with when you do don't want

your always on display enabled once

you've set your conditions tap done then

in the choose what this mode does

section tap other actions scroll to the

bottom and tap add action then tap your

Galaxy watch then tap the always on

display and set it to either on or off

depending on what you want the mode to

do in this case I want it to be set to

on then I'll tap done so now during

these time periods whenever I'm away

from my home the only on display on my

Galaxy watch is going to automatically

turn on if I scroll down even further I

can even change the watch face based on

the mode and this just shows a list of

my recently used watch faces so if you

don't see the watch face you want to use

here just apply the watch face on your

watch first then it will appear here and

just to show this working if I manually

turn this mode

on you'll see that my always on display

just turned on and when the mode turns

off my always on display is going to

turn back off by default during a

workout your workout screen always going

to be on even if you dismiss your screen

it's just going to get a little bit

dimmer but you can still see everything

this is excellent for being able to just

quickly glance down at your wrist to see

your workout details but it does use a

lot more battery so if you're doing a

workout that doesn't require you to

always be watching what your workout

details are you can actually tap your

screen then swipe over then tap settings

then scroll all the way to the bottom

scroll up just a little bit and you'll

see this screen always on option now if

you have the always on display currently

enabled you actually won't be able to

turn this off so what you'll first need

to do is swipe down from the top to

reveal your quick panel then disable

your always on display then you can go

back to the setting and disable it so

now if I back out to my workout screen

again and I dismiss the screen it

actually turns the screen off saving a

good amount of battery life during the

workout and if I ever need to see my

workout details I can just raise my

wrist or press one of the buttons If you

have the Galaxy watch Ultra specifically

there's another setting you can enable

to save even more power when tracking

exercises and this is extremely useful

if your battery is almost dead but you

want to finish tracking a workout before

it dies to get to the setting just swipe

to the left tap settings scroll all the

way to the bottom and you see this

exercise power saving mode and again

this is only available on the Galaxy

watch Ultra if you have any other Galaxy

watch you're not going to see that

setting so if you tap this and enable it

the exercise data you're recording won't

be quite as accurate and it's also going

to block any calls and messages mesages

during your exercise as well as disable

other features like audio guidance and

your wakeup gesture but this will let

you record your workout for up to 48

straight hours if you had a full charge

and also to be clear when it's blocking

your calls and messages it's not

blocking them on your phone it's just

going to block them on the watch this

next trick is going to save an

incredible amount of battery life to do

this just swipe down your quick panel

then scroll through your panels until

you find this battery with a leaf icon

and long press it that's going to take

you to your power saving menu now if you

just enabled power saving mode it is

going to save a tremendous amount of

battery life but it's also going to

disable a lot of the features that you

probably really enjoy using especially

if you have this limit Health features

option also enabled which even limits a

lot of Fitness measurements so instead

of just turning this feature on and

missing out on all of your favorite

features I recommend scheduling it for

times when you know you're not going to

be needing to use your watch like maybe

when you're driving to do this you're

going to follow the same step that I

showed you to schedule the always on

display but you're going to make a

couple changes so the first change

you're going to make is instead of

having the mode turn on based on a

specific time period you're going to tap

this turn on automatically section

disable the time periods then select

Bluetooth device then tap the device tap

the Bluetooth connection for your car

and tap done if instead of using

Bluetooth in your car you just plug in

for Android auto instead scroll down and

tap add condition then scroll down a bit

further and tap Android auto then tap

connected and then done and if you have

multiple cars you can add Bluetooth

devices for each car once that's set tap

done then tap the other actions for what

the Mode's going to do let's go ahead

and remove the oon display this time

scroll all the way down and tap add

action then Galaxy watch again then

power saving we're going to go ahead and

have it turn on then tap done and tap

done once more now anytime I either

connect to the Bluetooth in my car or

connect Android auto power saving mode

is automatically going to turn on and

stay on until I disconnect from the car

then it will automatically turn power

saving mode back off and if you do a lot

of driving or there's other conditions

where you can program power saving mode

to turn on automatically this is going

to save you an insane amount of battery

life the one caveat to using modes to

schedule these different power saving

features to enable or disable is that

you'll see these little status icons at

the top when the mode is enabled but

there's a quick fix to this all you have

to do is swipe up to see your apps go to

the settings app scroll down until you

get to Advanced features then tap that

then scroll down until you see status

indicators tap that and change it from

show always to hide after 2 seconds now

if I go back to my watch face you'll see

that the status icons are gone and if I

turn my screen off with a palm gesture

then turn it back on again you'll see

those status icons pop back up just for

2 seconds then go away if you've ever

used the Google Maps application on your

Galaxy watch for navigation there's a

good chance you've accidentally enabled

a battery destroying feature so let's go

ahead and make sure it's disabled to do

that we're going to scroll most of the

way to the bottom of the application

then tap settings then mirroring and you

want to disable the driving and Transit

options because what this feature does

is anytime you start navigation on your

phone even if you're in your car and

driving the navigation is also going to

show up on your watch and obviously

you're not going to need that if you're

driving but you may want to keep it on

for walking and cycling and if you

scroll all the way down you can see that

it works the other way around as well so

if you start a navigation on your watch

you can have it automatically show up on

your phone as well and that features

pretty useful so I do recommend keeping

that one on Samsung wallet and Google

Wallet are tremendously useful digital

wallets but if you're someone who

personally prefers to stick with cash

and physical cards and you're never

going to use these digital wallets you

should pull down your quick panel and

swipe across until you find the NFC

toggle if you don't see it you can tap

this little plus icon and you should see

it right there tap the Plus icon to add

it to your quick panels then swipe in

from the left to confirm now you'll be

able to tap the NFC toggle to disable it

this will turn off the NFC sensor saving

even more battery life but just remember

if you change your mind later and do

want to use one of those digital wallets

you have to reenable NFC first texting

people back on your Galaxy watch is

another really useful feature but even

if you're using a swipe to send your

messages it can take quite a long time

to get a full message out especially if

you have to scroll back through your

message to make some corrections for

fortunately there's a couple things you

can do to speed up texting the first is

to use the voice to text feature by

simply holding the home button anytime

you're in a message box

area and saying whatever you want to say

that'll convert it to text and if you

want to say more just hold the home

button again and say the next thing but

let's say you're in a public place and

you don't want to be speaking your

message out loud in front of a bunch of

other people well that's what this

second option is for if you open the

Galaxy wearable application on your

phone then jump into watch settings

and scroll all the way to the bottom

then go into the general settings then

tap quick responses you can enable

custom responses and choose from a bunch

of preset responses that you can send

with a single tap at the bottom you can

add your own custom response and that

response can be up to 30 characters long

you can then scroll back up and tap the

edit icon and grab these little arrows

and drag your response to reorder it and

if there are responses that you never

use you can tap them then tap delete and

if your Galaxy watch is paired to a

newer Samsung phone you'll also get this

suggested replies option and what this

does is use artificial intelligence to

analyze your previous conversation and

give you more contextual responses that

better match the conversation and if we

scroll all the way back up to the top

you can see that you can also enable or

disable the Emoji responses and modify

those as well by adding any new emojis

deleting ones you don't use and

reordering them by long pressing and

dragging to another spot so when you

have suggested replies and custom

replies enabled if you scroll down a bit

you'll see this icon right here if a

suggested reply is generated and the

next few responses will be the suggested

replies then below that you'll have your

custom replies so between these two

features you'll be able to reply to

texts a whole lot faster reducing your

screen on time and thus saving a bit of

battery life now for a couple bonus tips

to charge your Galaxy watch even faster

the first tip has to do with this

charging screen that always shows up

anytime you're charging your Galaxy to

watch if you disable this screen your

watch is going to be using less battery

life while it's charging letting you

charge a little bit faster to do this

we're going to go ahead and jump to our

home screen then we're going to pull our

quick panel down and tap the settings

icon to go into the settings you're

going to scroll down until you find the

battery option and tap that then scroll

down towards the bottom and disable the

show charging info option now if I turn

my screen off you see the charging info

is no longer shown the second thing you

can do to charge faster is found in the

same menu all the way at the bottom and

it's this auto power on feature Now by

default if your Galaxy watch dies and

then you plug it into to charge it it's

going to automatically turn the watch

back on but if you disable this feature

you can charge your watch while it's off

and that'll make a noticeable difference

in charge speed because your Galaxy

watch isn't going to be getting

notifications or trying to update things

in the background it's just going to be

charging if you have a Galaxy watch

Ultra and you're still pretty new to it

and you're just not sure where to start

you can check check out this video here

for the first 20 things to do and if

you're looking for some more advanced

features that work on pretty much any

Galaxy watch you can check out this

video instead and don't forget to

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