Four tips for improving battery life on the Apple Watch

The battery life on the Apple Watch will last you about a day. Here’s you can squeeze some extra juice out of it.

The battery on the Apple Watch will last you about a day under normal circumstances. With heavy usage, however, it can take quite a hit. Sure disabling the heart-rate sensor, reducing notifications and turning off wrist detection would improve it, but let’s not forget that this is a smartwatch and we want to take advantage of all of the Apple Watch’s cool features.

I’ve come up with four tips that I found could help improve battery life without sacrificing any of the Apple Watch’s functionality. Here’s what you need to know:

Choose the right watch face

The dancing Mickey Mouse watch face may look cool, but it’s actually doing more harm than good. Animated watches faces can actually reduce battery life. You’re better off using one of the more basic ones. The Apple Watch also uses an OLED screen, meaning watch faces with more black than colors will use less energy.

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