I've seen many posts regarding horrid battery life on the Series 5 but that's one issue my watch has failed to have. My Series 5 battery is excellent--on par with my Series 3--But it's got a ton of other faults that I blame on hardware:
It refuses to detect workouts any more--have to start them manually. Also it won't track standing anymore, unless I dance, shake my wrist hard, or smack my watch with my fist/slap it on a table. It now rattles as I move.
Microphone is bad--works for noise detection but forget using Siri for anything.
Speaker is weak too. Much quieter than Series 3. Can't even hear the tone when disabling water lock and it no longer has an audible sound when you place it on the charger. Can barely hear notification sounds. It makes a strange 'bliing!' acsending tone once I place it on my wrist after taking it off the charger, nothing on screen, it's NOT Apple Pay related. I watched it as it happened. It only does that when putting it on first thing. Only time I've heard it and there's nothing showing. It also does haptic feedback when it does that too.
I'm just not having battery issues.
It refuses to detect workouts any more--have to start them manually. Also it won't track standing anymore, unless I dance, shake my wrist hard, or smack my watch with my fist/slap it on a table. It now rattles as I move.
Microphone is bad--works for noise detection but forget using Siri for anything.
Speaker is weak too. Much quieter than Series 3. Can't even hear the tone when disabling water lock and it no longer has an audible sound when you place it on the charger. Can barely hear notification sounds. It makes a strange 'bliing!' acsending tone once I place it on my wrist after taking it off the charger, nothing on screen, it's NOT Apple Pay related. I watched it as it happened. It only does that when putting it on first thing. Only time I've heard it and there's nothing showing. It also does haptic feedback when it does that too.
I'm just not having battery issues.