Easy... If you want the monitoring then you wear it at night and charge for a period during the day. If you don't care about that monitoring, then don't wear it to bed.
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Apple Watch Series 10 Could Have Upgraded Heart Rate Sensor and Better Water Resistance
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I’ve always wondered why Apple Watch battery life isn’t as good as the competition. Does anyone know why they can get theirs to last for multiple days, but the AW lasts around a day and a half?
Because the Apple Watch has a far better display and a lot more functionality than any of them. Any of the competitors (Garmin, Coros, Polar, Fitbit, etc.) may be good to excellent activity/workout trackers, but they're all crippled, highly mediocre smartwatches compared to the iPhone.
Don’t Samsung ones have similar features to AWs & last longer?
I currently have an AW & I’m debating whether to upgrade from my S6 SS to the S10
Also why I stopped wearing it at night after the first year of having one.
Alas, the Watch 10 is going to be the only new device to be introduced on Monday, that is of any interest to me. It’ll be better in every aspect than my current Watch SE 2: faster CPU, more (useful - to me) features, better and larger display, fast charging and a brand new battery (the SE’s barely makes it through the day). Improved water resistance plus the diving app would be super cool.
I'm not real familiar with Samsung watches because I don't do Android, but from what I can see it looks like they're Bluetooth only (no cellular connection), and none of them are compatible with iPhone. So if you wanted to give up your iPhone and move into the Google/Android ecosystem they may have some comparable features to the AW. But that's not a compromise I'd be willing to make just for more battery life.
I sold my AW 9 last month (UK) for a decent price (bought is US last year so managed to get my money back) and fly to the US on Tuesday for a 13 day holiday. I take it they will likely be available to purchase within 10 ish days of the announcement?
I have a couple of Apple keyboard settlement cheques waiting for me which will soften the blow
I have a couple of Apple keyboard settlement cheques waiting for me which will soften the blow
Now if Apple doesn’t give the Reflections Watch face to at least the 45mm Series 7-9 it will be just plain nonsensical. It wouldn’t make sense since the 45mm (or maybe even smaller ) Series 10 will get it.
AW10 will come in 42mm and 46mm sizes. This article (and all the ones before it) are done with minimal effort in regards to research.
No, I have AWU2 49mm LTE, in my country Blood Oxygen is working.
You should buy from the uk as it will have the o2 sensor enabled, whereas in the US due to the patent dispute they have been selling different variants of the Apple Watch without an o2 sensor.I sold my AW 9 last month (UK) for a decent price (bought is US last year so managed to get my money back) and fly to the US on Tuesday for a 13 day holiday. I take it they will likely be available to purchase within 10 ish days of the announcement?
I have a couple of Apple keyboard settlement cheques waiting for me which will soften the blow
AWU2 Battery life is good minimum 36 hours. Because it is bigger. If you wear AW7,8,9 non ultra ones, don’t expect beyond 24 hours. These watches are too small to carry bigger batteries. Unless Apple, like Garmin, comes up with Solar based battery charging (which is highly unlikely), these 7,8,9s will not get better battery life. From what I see, AW10 seems to be getting bigger than its predecessors, hence may have slightly better battery life.
You want best battery life, you may need to buy $900+Tax AWU3.
Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 are/were both 799$. There has been no rumour whatsoever that Ultra 3 will be 100 $ more expensive.
The data we look for on sleep tests is oxygen desaturations associated with reactive tachycardia. So I suppose Apple health could say "you're having episodes of tachycardia at night, you should consider getting a sleep test". In fact, even if the O2 sensor was activated, I'd be worried about using that data alone. Some of my friends have Garmins etc reporting that they are dropping their sats overnight. In fact, they're becoming bradycardic (they're athletes) and that's being incorrectly picked up by the O2 sensor.
The trouble with the heart rate is it’s based on how fast you move your arms. Try standing still and move your arms as if running. Your actual heart rate will remain low say 60BPM whilst according to the watch it will read probably 150BPM, again depending on how fast you move your arms.
That's a good idea. I charge mine overnight but I'm going to try your strategy. Pretty much all sleep scientists talk about the benefits of a wind-down time before going to bed so, over and above having sufficient charge to wear it overnight, not having your watch on pinging you with Messages/WhatsApp/etc alerts and notifications in the hour or so before bedtime sounds like an extra benefit to me.
You say that's all you need to track your sleep. I suspect for me an hour of charging a day would be pretty much all I need for the entire extra 23 hours. I guess I'll do some experiments and find out. (I have a 41mm non-LTE Series 9 but from the rumours I hear I suspect that within a month will be a 42mm Series X/10.)
Those interested in monitoring sleep apnea would probably charge their watch before going to bed.
Also... my watch is a couple years old, and for the most part before charging it at night, I still have around 75% charge remaining.
Apple probably thinks black colors will take away from Apples famous white design
By the time I get home from work, my Ultra is down to 70% battery and I don’t even need a top up before bed. I just don’t want the battery to charge more in the morning, so I top up more an hour before bed. It don’t take that long to charge. I don’t receive any notifications on my watch while asleep so no pinging. I receive vibrations from my Wellue O2 ring when my oxygen goes below 90%.
In 2014 I bought the first model and after ten years it still has the exact same design. I think it's really ridiculous
That's called cadence lock, and I've found it to be a lot bigger problem on Garmin watches than Apple Watches. I wore both the Garmin Forerunner 935 and Fenix 6, both of them suffered from cadence lock so badly that I had to wear a chest strap while running with them or they were essentially useless most of the time. The Fenix was a little better than the 935, but it was still unreliable. I've never had a problem with it on my AW8 in two years of wearing it for workouts.