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Apple Watch Series 5 battery life sucks!

symphony

symphony

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I can barely get 18 hours of battery life that Apple claims as ‘all-day battery’!

At the very least, I get about 10-13 hours. It’s pretty much nothing if I were to go for a two-hour workout and wake up at 6 AM and go to bed at 11 PM. There’s even a chance I can’t even get all 12-hour stand credits.

This is the results I get from setting the Apple Watch as new with Apple’s default settings, configurations, and watch face. With and without my iPhone.

It’s downright atrocious when compared to my Apple Watch Series 4, which I always end my day with on 45%-70% at 11 PM. Now I end with 0% by 8 PM to 9 PM, it ain’t even gonna last till 11 PM.

According to Apple support running MRI diagnostics on my watch, they say my battery is in perfect condition. smh

I barely use my Apple Watch for apps, it’s mainly used for checking the time, reading notifications, and controlling playback.

welp they gonna get engineers to investigate my battery drain, but I really doubt they could do anything about it. This is my review of the AWS5 battery. hAppy holidays
 
Otflyer said:
I have two Apple Watch S5’s. They both have battery life as good as my previous S4 which would leave me 30 to 50% battery life at days end. I start my day at 5:30am and end around 11:00pm. I have all features turned on.
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really
 
Otflyer said:
I have two Apple Watch S5’s. They both have battery life as good as my previous S4 which would leave me 30 to 50% battery life at days end. I start my day at 5:30am and end around 11:00pm. I have all features turned on.
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Same. My S5 is using 2,5% per hour.
 
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I took my Apple Watch series 5 off the charger at 8:30 this morning. It recorded 40 minutes of exercise 14 hours of Stand time and 810 cal, It’s Sunday so I took it easy😊
It is now 12:55 AM and the watch reads 28% Battery remaining.
I don’t have any complaints😁
 
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I have all ON on mys S5 Cellular.
Battery life is absolutely not an issue, I wake up at 6.30am, and I use my watch until 11.00pm every day.
There is always at least 20% remaining (when I run 2 hours with LTE ON without phone) and 40% when I don't have any workout activity.
For people who have bad battery life:
- you have an hardware issue
- or a software issue

Most S5 have normal battery life (more than the 18 hours advertised)
 
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Hello there

I’m not familiar with battery life on the Watch & what to expect, as this is my first one.

I have 2 hours 28 min of usage, 21 hours of standby and 46% of battery left. It’s a ceramic maybe I have a better battery? I have Noise & AOD on.
 
no... for me AOD on, background app refresh on for all apps and Raise to Wake On. Only thing off is talkies walkie and Noise.
 
I have the stainless steel version and have no complications and apps installed. I lost 15% battery overnight, while I was sleeping...
 
Well, it's strange to lose 2% per hour when there are no notifications and practically no activities going on with the watch.
 
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Sport version here, and everything is on AOD/Cellular 1hr workout outdoors, .5hr indoors. 30-40 percent battery remaining after my normal 17hr wake time. I do nothing to protect the battery, I believe that I should not have to "not use" stuff on my tech to make it work.

@melancholy Something seems off with yours my friend.
 
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daniesy said:
I have the stainless steel version and have no complications and apps installed. I lost 15% battery overnight, while I was sleeping...
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You can put it in airplane mode and theatre mode for the night. It will not light up. The WiFi consumes battery.
 
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There's probably some process looping on the watch that eats battery.
Some people have reported issue with icloud keychain that caused high cpu usage.
Maybe there is something to check on this side.
 
To be honest, syncing songs from the phone was a little buggy. It might be because of that...
 
Battery is not an issue for me.

Last long enough to forget when I put it on charge. I use activity, autosleep, noise read, all notification etc
 
melancholy said:
I can barely get 18 hours of battery life that Apple claims as ‘all-day battery’!

At the very least, I get about 10-13 hours. It’s pretty much nothing if I were to go for a two-hour workout and wake up at 6 AM and go to bed at 11 PM. There’s even a chance I can’t even get all 12-hour stand credits.

This is the results I get from setting the Apple Watch as new with Apple’s default settings, configurations, and watch face. With and without my iPhone.

It’s downright atrocious when compared to my Apple Watch Series 4, which I always end my day with on 45%-70% at 11 PM. Now I end with 0% by 8 PM to 9 PM, it ain’t even gonna last till 11 PM.

According to Apple support running MRI diagnostics on my watch, they say my battery is in perfect condition. smh

I barely use my Apple Watch for apps, it’s mainly used for checking the time, reading notifications, and controlling playback.

welp they gonna get engineers to investigate my battery drain, but I really doubt they could do anything about it. This is my review of the AWS5 battery. hAppy holidays
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My S5 battery life started out pretty poor. By the time the 6.1 update rolled around, I was ending the day (7am-11pm) with ~40% battery left.
The battery life of mine has been great.

I will say, however, that there are a few 3rd party apps that really kill battery life. Some of the heart rate trackers have done it as well as one of the apps that alert you when your watch and phone are separated by too far of a distance (can't remember the name of it, however; there's a thread on here about it). Be careful about what 3rd party apps/complications you add.
 
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It’s fine for me. I wear it from 8am to midnight and I usually have 20-35% left. 40-60 min workout a day. Most things left on.
I have no desire to wear it 24 hours a day so I’m happy with the battery life
 
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same here S5, aod on, as well as background updates
from 8am to midnight/1am usually 30-50% battery at the end of the day

2 things..
Make sure you're on the latest OS, the past few versions were battery hogs, and my battery life has been getting better with each version they release.

-unpair and repair the watch
this can clear up weirdness in the backgrond
you can backup, and then restore from that backup. So you shouldn't loose any information.
on my old s0 had an OS upgrade screw the watch, was getting 3 hours tops before it died, this fixed it right up.


also
your watch will use the lowest power radio it can.
in order it's bluetooth, wifi, cellular.

so having your phone and watch in range of each other will help battery life.
once you watch looses your phone's bluetooth, it will turn on it's wifi to look for networks.
if it can't find wifi, it will turn on cellular. if you're in an area with little to no cell service, this can kill the battery as it's trying harder and harder to find a network.
 
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