Hey there, I found many topics regarding battery issues in the forum, but still looking for some answers. I have Fenix 6 Pro, current firmware 19.20, that is around half year old and it suffers form excessive battery drain, 3.5 - 5.5%/h. I did my homework and tried soft reset, hard reset, switching on/off Bluetooth, PulseOx, WiFi and Wrist HR bummer, the easy fixes are covered then. GPS, pulse ox, and notifications use a lot of battery along with some watch faces. Contact Garmin. My 7x solar lasts a few weeks and I have not obsessed over the settings nor gotten a huge boost from the solar as I work in an office. Update the map, that fixed my battery issue. In the past I never understood why people complaining about faster battery drain by each release Until now : hereby I confirm the Tactix 7 Standard also drain faster since the latest update. 4-5% / 12 hours without activity. Aprox. -8% / hour during a swimming of strength training session and 10-15% with a running with Multiband GNSS Garmin Fenix 6 and 6X Solar both took advantage of GPS to provide tens of hours of continuous battery life, and both also increased GPS battery life by 66 hours. Garmin’s batteries appear to have malfunctioned, as well as GPS offset and shift errors. The battery life of a GPS bikePM+Stryd+HRM was cut in half by the time it reached 14 hours. I'm down to about 5 days on the charge, and that's including nights in the battery saver. Fenix 6 Pro, everything updated as per the stable update channel; UK. Watch restarted; tried Hard Reset but after holding this button for about 3 seconds Assistance screen pops up and warns it's about to send Assistance request to my emergency contacts. My watch will now need charging again, despite waking up to it being 100% charged this morning. I do not understand it, I have not had any problems until now. Last week I was still able to leave it 3 days before needing to recharge. Then suddenly, without warning, it is draining incredibly fast. This should not be expected of this kind of watch. 1) Pair a watch with a phone and connect it to a Garmin Connect account in the app (in our case, a Fenix 6S Sapphire paired with an iPhone X) 2) Battery usage should now be normal (losing ~0.5 % battery per hour) 3) Remove the watch from the Garmin Connect app (but not from the phone's BT settings!) 4) Do a total factory reset of the watch Why is My fēnix 7 or fēnix 7 Pro Watch Battery Draining Quickly? | Garmin Customer Support. FREE GROUND SHIPPING ON ORDERS $25 AND UP. Garmin Support Center. Garmin Support Center is where you will find answers to frequently asked questions and resources to help with all of your Garmin products. Maximizing the Battery Life. You can do several things to extend the life of the battery. Change the power mode during an activity ( Changing the Power Mode). Turn on the battery saver feature from the controls menu ( Viewing the Controls Menu). Reduce the backlight timeout ( Changing the Backlight Settings). Reduce the backlight brightness. My numbers below are for the Fenix 6 Sapphire. No music, BT connection on, no weather data fields (these drain a lot of battery), but with HR and analog seconds hands (which people often worry excessively drain more battery): Watch face mode. Ie outside of activities. The stock faces are pretty energy efficient I’ve found. 0.2-0.3% per hour. TwePO1f.