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As we’ve posted above, everything is on, plus cellular, plus an hour gym session most days. Maybe it’s certain installed app/complication that’s draining the battery?

I don’t use any third-party apps. I turned off GymKit, as I recall that was a battery hog for me back when it was introduced. I also reconfigured everything back to how I used my Series 4, so we’ll see how that goes.

However if it is a hardware issue, but it’s not the battery, then what could cause the battery drain? A faulty always-on display that sucks out more power than it should? I don’t know, hopefully an engineer can run diagnostic without having to send my device...

everyone here getting good battery life is making me envious lol
 
I don’t use any third-party apps. I turned off GymKit, as I recall that was a battery hog for me back when it was introduced. I also reconfigured everything back to how I used my Series 4, so we’ll see how that goes.

However if it is a hardware issue, but it’s not the battery, then what could cause the battery drain? A faulty always-on display that sucks out more power than it should? I don’t know, hopefully an engineer can run diagnostic without having to send my device...

everyone here getting good battery life is making me envious lol

Have you unpaired and repaired?
 
42mm aluminum S5 LTE here.

I wake up at 6am, do a 60-90 minute workout every day (strength with phone or outdoor run with no phone). On runs, I Bluetooth music to Wireless Beats Pro from a playlist stored on my watch. Every day around 6/7/8pm, it's bugging me to go into power reserve. Once a week, in addition to my morning workout, I play beer league hockey at night and use the Hockey Tracker app. If I don't do my evening charge after I get home form work, it will die mid-game without a doubt. AOD is on (I find it ridiculous that I would have to turn off the core feature of the watch to reach advertised battery life), and my only 3rd party complication is Dark Sky. No noise/compass complications either.

It's extremely rare when I can last until 11pm when doing any sort of workout and I almost always have to do a 20-minute evening charge to make it the whole day. It's super disappointing compared to my old Series 3 LTE in which I'd go to bed regularly at 40% (20% on hockey nights). I never had to charge mid-day, even on it's 2-year old battery. My 5 is super disappointing when it comes to battery.

That said, I've done the chat support a handful of times, and have done the whole update software, un-pair/re-pair thing. 6.0 was even more garbage. 6.0.1 made some improvement, but still short of the usage stated on Apple's website (18 hours, with 4 of those on LTE, with one hour workout, etc). 6.1/6.1.1 no improvement over 6.0.1.

Finally, after my 3rd or 4th online chat, they had me set up an appointment to bring it in. The dude at the Apple store said that he's personally serviced a few people with the same issue with the 5. But of course, my battery (and theirs) all pass diagnostics with flying colors. He's having mine sent in for repair regardless, since it doesn't reach the advertised battery life, but he's also done this for other people, and the repair center just sends it right back when it passes diagnostics. He said one guy had to send his back 3 times before they just swapped it out with a new one, and he no longer had a battery issue.

Mine just got to the repair center today, so here's to hoping they don't just ship it back.
 
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Things are looking good so far, fellas. I’m ready to take back what I said.

It may have seem like the GymKit was the actual cause for my battery drain. My Apple Watch is at 60% by 9:30 PM, which I put on my watch at 9:00 AM.

However I did take off my Apple Watch for 2 hours, so that might’ve slowed it down. But I’ll try again tomorrow.
 
Sigh.
 

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Yeah, I already did, but I think it's kinda misleading. It's just turning off the detection of sports machines. It's not the full "gymkit", unless this single function is called GymKit. Then, it's confusing because "HealthKit" is so much more than just a single function. This is why I am asking. So you guys just turn off the autodetection, not the full gym functionality?
 
Yeah, I already did, but I think it's kinda misleading. It's just turning off the detection of sports machines. It's not the full "gymkit", unless this single function is called GymKit. Then, it's confusing because "HealthKit" is so much more than just a single function. This is why I am asking. So you guys just turn off the autodetection, not the full gym functionality?
Yes, that’s what I meant. “Detect Gym Equipment” is what I disabled in the Workout section of the Watch app, and I assume is the only method of using GymKit. GymKit looks for workout machines to share data with.
 
That is all day battery. Also you probably have a complication on that is draining it even more, like the decibel meter.
Yes, that’s why I quoted Apple’s claims. Also it wasn’t the complications.
 
I'm on all the default settings, AOD is on, etc. running 6.1. Watch face has compass complication. My drain is 2.9% per hour (up from 2.6% earlier), at 30 hours since last charge, 35min workout, 12% battery remaining - AW S5 is fantastic!

I’ll try turning off detection of gym equipment for the next cycle.
 
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After the post I noted my 100% charge hour. Using it as I used it in the past I have a battery drain at around 1.42% per hour.
 
I've been getting to 2-3% hour and overall happy with battery life. But just turned off gymkit detection as my gym doesn't support it and curious to see if it gets even better.
 
I've been getting to 2-3% hour and overall happy with battery life. But just turned off gymkit detection as my gym doesn't support it and curious to see if it gets even better.
Let us know. It worked drastically for me!
 
After 24 hours from 100% at 10.09 I'm now at 44%. Used it to track a 1.30h padel game yesterday evening. I have autosleep active to track my sleep. Activity etc I got all the function and notification active.

It's a 2.33% drain per hour. Really happy with it.
 
After 24 hours from 100% at 10.09 I'm now at 44%. Used it to track a 1.30h padel game yesterday evening. I have autosleep active to track my sleep. Activity etc I got all the function and notification active.

It's a 2.33% drain per hour. Really happy with it.
Seems perfect. Do you have AOD and RTW on ? And do you have setup an email account ?
 
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For whatever it's worth, Detect Gym Equipment setting had a similar impact on Series 4 watches with WatchOS5. Maybe it's more pronounced with WatchOS6? I'm not going to suggest there aren't legitimate issues with people's watches. There are countless guides to improve battery life on various blogs around. I read them with my Series 2 with good results and generally look at them each time a new watch/WatchOS is released in case something has changed. Glad to see some of you folks getting improvement, hoping for the best for those still struggling.
 
Let us know. It worked drastically for me!

Did my usual hour workout last night, streaming music LTE and workout app running. Ending day about 5% lower than usual. No different usage for me during the day, so we'll see next time but at least for me, gymkit search didn't appear to be causing drain at my gym.
 
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