Stefan Mileschin

Scheduled essential overnight is the key

TicWatch Pro 3 GPS and, most recently, TicWatch 3 GPS Ultra have shaken up the Wear OS market due to its skillful dual-screen design that can offer multi-day use. My biggest issue for giving up a Wear OS a few years back was the battery life. Devices such as LG Watch Sport could barely last throughout the workday, but this was more than four years ago.

The TicWatch Pro 3 GPS / Ultra advertised up to 72-hour battery life, but we managed to stretch it to four days (96 hours) with a catch. Last year's TicWatch Pro 3 GPS update introduced automatic scheduling for essential mode. The same feature is available on the most recent TicWatch Pro 3 GPS out of the box. We scheduled the watch to automatically go to essential mode at 11.30 PM and stay there until 7.20 AM. Notifications at this time are distracting, and this alone was able to stretch the battery life from whole three days to whole four days.

The watch in essential mode will still tell the time, light the screen's backlight, take your pulse, count your steps or monitor your sleep. We were missing that the watch won't sound an alarm. If Google Pay is activated, google enforces you to enable pin or path security. Even after automatically going from essential to wear mode, the watch won't entirely turn Wear OS until one types a password. It may cause one to miss an alarm.

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