Apple Watch Series 7 launch day battery life thus far

[BillGates1969]

Mine averaging 2.5-3.5% tops per hour. It went out to about 4% average (for the day) yesterday as I did a 2 mile dog walk without my phone(I normally always take my phone with me) and listened to a podcast on my AirPods over cellular. Still impressive IMO.

 

[perezr10]

Are there any specific tips for saving battery?

I want to keep AOD on but except for this and notifications from messages and calls is there anything else that will be automatically on out of the box that will impact battery use significantly?

My biggest gain comes from turning off the background blood oxygen readings. After that, heart rate readings.

 

[Al Rukh]

Charged my S7 45mm to 95% last night at around 12-12.30am. Wore it to sleep and charge for 15 minutes when I get into the shower early in the morning today and currently it stands at 60%. AoD turned on too.

I do notice that it takes longer time to charge the S7 using my old charging puck.

 

[movieator]

Had mine on 12 hours now.

Tons of email and text notifications, background refresh on, AOD on, raise to wake on, and I'm right at 50%.

Seems to have settled in a bit.

Yesterday, under the same circumstances, I was at 62% after about 12 hours.

This is also from restoring as a backup.

 

[ElDuderino91]

After using it the whole day it is now on 47%. I had a 3 hour workout. Now I’ll charge it while reading in the bed and then put it on for sleep tracking. I’ll charge it again tomorrow night before sleep. I’m pleased.

 

[nph]

Using theatre mode at night gets me less than 2% usage per hour for the night. Definitely better than my AW5, still I would like way better battery life.