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Apple conservative with battery?

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IUBall22

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Sep 13, 2007
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ive been wearing my Watch since 7am and it's now almost 10pm, and I still have 59% battery left. Pleasently surprised by this.
 
They did an amazing job with watchOS 3.1 regarding battery life.
I usually charge my Watch every night putting it into a stand, but I could do it every other day since I always have more than 50% when I go to bed
 
I can confirm. Up since 8am, its 8pm now, still at 76% despite frequent usage throughout the day.
(Part of the reason might be that I can decrease brightness a bit since it's winter-time here).
38mm version too.
 
I am generally over 50% when I put the watch on at 7 AM and take it off around 9 PM. Thinking about just charging every other day. Series 1 here with brightness set to medium.
 
I typically get 3 full days use out of a single charge. I do switch it off at night as that saves enough battery to get through 3 days safely. Quite impressive!
 
Only time battery dips below 60% on my AW Sport is when I've had the pulse meter running for two hours plus when taking a really long walk. Often if I don't use the training app that day, battery is at or near 75%.

That said, I've turned off background activity for most apps, as I found something eating serious battery when wOS3 first came out, and curbing background update for all but the core stuff I actually use fixed it. I didn't bother re-activating it all again when 3.1 came out as there was no appreciable gain for me letting them background update.

I suppose in the interest of science I should just enable everything again and see if battery life remains good. I just can't be bothered though! *shrug*
 
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