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Apple Watch Battery Life: 18 Hours Mixed Usage, Up to 72 Hours on Power Reserve
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So you're getting an Apple Watch in 3 years? Have fun waiting
18 hours is more than reasonable. How many hours a day are you awake? If you sleep just 6 hours, the other 18 hours of the day, you can have the Watch on.
Take it off at night, put it on in the morning. 18 hours is a very comfortable margin for regular use without having to ever worry about the battery.
18 hours is reasonable if you didn't want sleep tracking. Apple doesn't have sleep tracking in the watch yet. If they had sleep tracking then 18 hours is not adequate. Also each battery has 500 cycles of charging that means you will need a battery replacement in less than 18 months. When a company says typical usage it means that your real world battery time would definitely be less than 18 hours. I am guessing the watch would get 12 hours on a single charge.
Yea that is a strange... I had the same thought... I just assume the watch is the manipulator but the BT headphone still connects to the phone.
I will keep with my Breitling thanks! Now where the hell is the replacement for the Thunderbolt display eh? Come on Apple you really are taking the biscuit here!
I'm waiting for someone to tear it down and report on the difficulty of battery replacement.
**Apple Watch is splash and water resistant but not waterproof. You can, for example, wear and use Apple Watch during exercise, in the rain, and while washing your hands, but submerging Apple Watch is not recommended. Apple Watch has a water resistance rating of IPX7 under IEC standard 60529. The leather bands are not water resistant."
http://store.apple.com/us/buy-watch/apple-watch-sport?product=MJ2T2LL/A&step=detail#
Right below features.
Just wondering if they will plan on upgrading theWatch every year?
Seriously doubt that. Maybe a hardware speed bump for the second, and possibly additional health sensors for the third.
I bet the 2nd gen doesn't drop till 2017.
Water resistance is posted in the "fine print" when you're looking at a watch in the store.
That's not as bad as predicted and it sounds like I will be able to get a good days mountain biking out of it while fitness tracking.
I'm still waiting for the real world tests though.
I'm still waiting for the real world tests though.
Out of curiosity, if the Watch had sleep tracking, when would you actually ever charge it? You'd wear it at night for sleep tracking and during the day for timekeeping, notifications, etc. People are asking for water resistance, so you wouldn't even take it off when you take a shower. So when would you attach it to the charger?
I am not trying to applefanboyishly claim "They didn't give it sleep tracking so you can charge it!" But I guess at some point you HAVE to take it off, and the most obvious time for that is the night. Or if it had a three day battery life, would people accept to skip sleep tracking every third night?
So you're getting an Apple Watch in 3 years? Have fun waiting
18 hours is more than reasonable. How many hours a day are you awake? If you sleep just 6 hours, the other 18 hours of the day, you can have the Watch on.
Take it off at night, put it on in the morning. 18 hours is a very comfortable margin for regular use without having to ever worry about the battery.
Maybe he's gonna wait for other stuff, not battery life. Like I will.
Thats odd. TC said he showered with his which seems like it would get way more wet than rain, or washing hands
and again, that is YOUR opinion. Apple is rising into legendary...1,2,3....
seriously, why such a sourpuss about this? If you don't like it, don't buy it and stop bad mouthing something you haven't seen in person and probably will end up buying on the download anyway
I'd like to know where you're getting that 500 cycles figure from, as it's not necessary to replace an iPhone or MacBook battery every 18 months.
So you're getting an Apple Watch in 3 years? Have fun waiting
18 hours is more than reasonable. How many hours a day are you awake? If you sleep just 6 hours, the other 18 hours of the day, you can have the Watch on.
Take it off at night, put it on in the morning. 18 hours is a very comfortable margin for regular use without having to ever worry about the battery.
I work as a Pilot, as such I work very long days, often 12 hours + not including commuting and home time. As such 18 hours, would be just enough. Apart from that, there are many features we know apple wanted to implement but could not for technical reasons, this means that unless you want to splash out more money when the next generation comes out, waiting is reasonable, unless you're dying to get this one. Im not. I will buy it when it makes sense for me.
I believe the watch settings include a text size slider like the one in the iPhone settings.
who in their right mind is gonna have a private conversation out in public like that tho? thats just rude
I haven't seen any grime on my magsafe connnector but I've seen some users with disgusting ones, so you do have a valid concern here. Plus, people put lotion on their hands/arms.
However since it is a smooth surface, you just need to remember to wipe the surface every once in a while. I'm sure there'll be an app to remind you to do this.
1. Siri? You can use Siri to dictate your messages and/or send audio messages.
2. You can talk on the watch, it's one of the geekiest moments that Cook had in the event.
So you're getting an Apple Watch in 3 years? Have fun waiting
18 hours is more than reasonable. How many hours a day are you awake? If you sleep just 6 hours, the other 18 hours of the day, you can have the Watch on.
Take it off at night, put it on in the morning. 18 hours is a very comfortable margin for regular use without having to ever worry about the battery.
And it's 18 hours of various uses, not 18 hours straight time-watching. Apple said 48 hours for time-watching and there's 72 hours of power reserve.
They've detailed the hours here: http://www.apple.com/watch/battery.html
For me, I'd like to have a watch that wakes me up in the morning. I cannot use a sound alarm, so a vibrating one on your watch works much better.
Huh? Apple Watch isn't upgradable, Apple didn't say anything about this.
If your battery gets too low, Apple Watch automatically switches into Power Reserve mode so you can continue to see the time for up to 72 hours
2-3 days is good enough for me.
Apple is far better than most companies when listing battery times and for casual uses, they're fairly accurate.
You can see their battery tests here: http://www.apple.com/watch/battery.html
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