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The Instinct Solar's battery life is in Smartwatch: Up to 24 days/54 days with solar*, Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 56 days/Unlimited with solar*, GPS: Up to 30 hours/38 hours with solar**, Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 70 hours/145 hours with solar**, Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 28 days/68 days with solar*. *Solar charging, assuming all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions. **Solar charging, assuming use in 50,000 lux conditions. For more information please view our Support Center, https://support.garmin.com/en-US/. You can also contact Product Support or email us at [email protected]. Thanks Jenny
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.My battery (fully charged) says 14 days. When the device is synced with my phone, it doesn't last anywhere near 14 days for me. It lasts about 4-5 days. Have not tried it with push notifications turned off or not synced with phone. Solar charging/exposure to sunlight (or fluorescent light) does not seem to make much difference with me.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I’ve been using my watch for about 3 weeks now, and this shouldn’t be a complicated question but, it depends a lot on your settings. So with Sleep Pulse Ox (which tracks your oxygen levels when sleeping) on and normal (non battery saver) I believe it says about 14 days on full charge. Now if I run an hour or two a day and use activity tracking, that will cut back a little on this. But to show how much time you can get out of it using battery saver, when your watch gets down to 2 days of charge it will pop up the option to do battery saver (or you could do at any time in watch settings), mines done this twice now and I applied the setting, and I believe it said 58days after putting on battery saver with only 2 days left otherwise. I know battery saver turns of Sleep Ox, it simplifies what’s on the watch face, I’m pretty positive it turns off heart rate tracking, but I’m not sure what else it turns off, probably GPS since that’s a huge drain. Also, at one point I was messing with the settings and Sleep Ox tracking half’s the days the battery will last, and heart rate tracking does the same. I believe with both those settings off it said 28-30days. So I believe you can get some serious time out of it if you let go of some tracking. And obviously the solar is a bit of a wild card as far as how much more battery youd get from how much light you could take advantage of.
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