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Apple Watch Series 4 Models Have Nearly 20% Less Battery Capacity Despite Same 'Up to 18 Hours' Battery Life
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Because if there is one time to complain about the thickness of a device, it’s a watch.
The problem with these stories is we only know the what, not the why. The why is just pure speculation.
Help, I fallen and I can’t get up ...Is it really efficient if you, as the user, have to recharge the watch more frequently?
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What if you fall in the shower?
I got the LTE model Series 4 and I have done 3 hour long workouts with it so far (2 walks, 1 bike ride). All three times I was running the workout app and streaming music or podcasts to my AirPods simultaneously. This was also while on an LTE signal, not using a connection with my phone. Each time I've done that, my Series 4 battery has only gone down about 10%.
ITT: people who upgraded from S3 complaining about losing an hour of their 32-hour battery life, while those of us with slow-ass S0 watches that last half a day continue waiting for our Sept 14 pre-orders to show up in mid-October.
That’s cool I was the same growing up I was rarely taking it off too -but charging it really doesn’t seem like the hassle people make it out to be.
I'm thinking there's an issue with your watch or you need to try setting it up as new without restoring from backup. It should be getting far better battery life than that. Also--the article doesn't say the battery life is not as good. It says the capacity is lower while retaining the same usage time.
It's not. I do sometimes forget to, though, and I don't always reliably get a low power notification from it (or sometimes I forget even that).
Definitely a first-world problem, but not one to be ignored.
Every day since last Friday you’ve been getting a full day less? After 8 hours my series 4 is at 80%. I haven’t done any workouts yet today, but I usually top off my watch at home before I go to the gym. And then top it off before I go to bed so I can wear it for sleep tracking and as an alarm. From what I can tell so far battery life is very similar to the Series 2 I was coming from.
For me, unless I’m getting a week it doesn’t matter whether I get a full day or two days. I’m used to topping it off once or maybe twice a day and if I know I’m going to be gone for several days I bring a charger with me.
This doesn't surprise me, I was getting nearly three days sometimes out of my series 3, they probably saw that as over-engineered and cut back. I'm getting a lot of life out of my series 4 now too, both have been well over a full day device in my experience.
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Nah, too easy. Fruit just hangs too low. <-- Also too easy.
On topic: If it's size difference is significant or noticeable, I could see someone having a preference. But if it's a size difference only detectable with calipers... I'd be willing to bet most would take the extra battery and keep the Series 3 dimensions.
With my now year-old Series 3 Apple Watch (non cellular) I get two days of battery life quite easily.
This means if I do a lot of exercise - such as when I’m on holiday and swim every day - I still never need to worry about battery life.
My 3 year old 6S Plus is another story...
This means if I do a lot of exercise - such as when I’m on holiday and swim every day - I still never need to worry about battery life.
My 3 year old 6S Plus is another story...
I think Apple's aim with the AW has always been full day battery life for most users. I think the S3 was going well beyond that for most people (I use the exercise app for up to 2 hrs per day including tracking a roughly 1 hr bike ride using GPS and still finish off a 17 hr day with 50-60% left) and combined with more efficient components Apple saw the opportunity to shrink the battery a little in order to make the device a bit thinner (my S3 is a bit on the bulky side, so I think it was a good design decision). Looking at most comments it seems like on average the S4 may get similar to slightly worse battery life than the S3, but still much better battery life than the S0 and still more than enough to get most people through the day.
So, is it only in Norway that the advice from insurance companies and experts in home fire prevention strongly recommend not to charge your phone, Mac, watch or other devices during the night? I would certainly never ever sleep in a room where one of my gadgets are charging!
I preordered but not on preorder day, a few days after, but before it shipped. I was on the fence about getting the first generation and had a lot less disposable income back then. Anyway it was so backed up that it didn’t arrive until early June 2015. The battery life has steadily declined on mine. Lately it has been really inconsistent. Some days it dies at 4pm, other days 8 or 9pm. I don’t even run the exercise app any more. I have nearly every setting dialed back to the minimum and pretty much only receive a few notifications aside from Messages. It’s driving me crazy and my Series 4 44mm SS just won’t ship! Side note: since I haven’t been using it much for exercising and activity I’ve been slowly gaining weight again. It really did help me be more active and healthy. Now that my wife has an Apple Watch for the first time (40mm AL), I’m looking forward to competing with her.
I set as a new Apple Watch every time. We'll see how it goes the rest of the week.
