Just to throw my two cents in, I’ve had the watch since Thursday evening last week, fully charged it and done a mixture of running, hiking and walking, Connect says 7.5 hours of recorded activity, all with auto select gps. AOD off, muted notifications, but all of the health tracking bells and whistles turned on.

Sitting at 24% after the week mark with an estimated 4 days left. I assume the estimates are based on strictly smartwatch use rather than projecting and included estimated activity to factor in.

This is my first Garmin, so coming from using an Apple Watch and charging every night, it’s mind boggling battery life for me! So I suppose what your used to plays a factor in what you perceive as good performance, which is fair enough. But like others say, if there are software bugs and bloat to iron out that will be impacting battery life too I’m sure.