Charge 6 - Battery draining fast

[Shelly.Nix]

I charged my watch on 3 days ago and this morning it is back to 15% so needs charging again. What could be causing this?

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[N8teGee]

Hi @Shelly.Nix

If you haven't already done so I would recommend restarting your Charge 6 to see if that fixes the excessive battery drain.

Also do you have the always on display (AOD) active? As that will eat into battery life significantly. 

[Hockeyplayer]

Mine lasts 6 days ish but if it runs out of battery it then won’t show any of my data. 

[Keebi]

Mine did when I first got it but I need to figure out which settings to disconnect for longer life.

[Keebi]

Shelly.Nix, I’m having the same challenge, I think it’s the apps that are activated on the watch wish there was a cheat sheet.

[N8teGee]

The sp02 app will be quite a battery drain. So if you are looking to save battery and you don't care about spO2 measurements, it's worth uninstalling this. Also as I mentioned above always on display is a huge drain, so disable that and use the raise to wake gesture instead. 

[gundagai]

GPS uses a lot of battery and the thing that uses GPS is the Auto Recognized Exercises.

Go to Settings -> Peferences -> Exercise -> Auto Recognized Exercises

If you don't care about having your Charge 6 figure out which exercise you are doing then set each of the 7 exercises to Ignored.  Making this change more than doubled my battery life.

The way I look at it is if I'm walking, I already know I'm walking and having the Charge 6 tell me I'm walking... well, duh.

[DavidFitbit]

Hi everybody, thank you for the contribution to the community!

You can find additional tips on how to improve battery life in our help article Can I extend my Fitbit device's battery life? below the section "What are tips to extend my Fitbit device's battery life?"

In effect this one talks about features such as SpO2, GPS and always-on display.