I charge my watch (AW 4) when I’m sitting at a desk working, when showering, or at some point I’m home and not moving around much for a little while. It doesn’t take long to charge up high enough to last for hours. I could even charge for about 30 minutes before bedtime and have the battery last all night and more.
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Apple Watch Series 8 Takes Five Nights to Establish Baseline Wrist Temperature
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You don’t have to wear it for 5 days and nights straight without taking it off.
All the questions are answered in linked document on Apple Page in thread’s opening post:
Track your nightly wrist temperature changes with Apple Watch - Apple Support
Apple Watch Series 8 or Apple Watch Ultra can gather wrist temperature data while you sleep to help give you insight into your overall well-being.
bad choice of words here - before it "determines" would be correct, read the Apple comment that you're quoting...
Apple today published a new support document with additional details about the new wrist temperature sensing feature available on Apple Watch Series 8 and Apple Watch Ultra models, and it turns out the feature requires users to wear their watch for five nights before it can detect a baseline temperature.
I currently have a S4 and a S7 and soon an Ultra, so I wear 1 watch overnight while the other is on the charger ...
But, when traveling, the fast charging of the S7 during shower and before bedtime is sufficient, ~ 45-60min ...
I track my sleep every night. I usually charge it in the evening. On the fast charger, takes about fifteen minutes.
Sorry, that requires too much autonomous willpower. It's easier to pretend there are no easy solutions to easy problems.
Pretty simple for me. I just charge it before I go to sleep LOL do people not do this?
I charge it in the morning while I get ready for the day and at night while I'm getting ready for bed.
I dont lol when I finally retire I just toss it on the charger with my phone ahahah I guess i'll try to switch things up as there have been several good suggestions in this thread!
I charge it sporadically during the day as need be. Same goes for the watch. This way you can sleep with it on, should you choose to. This morning I had 56% left on the watch and it wasn't fully charged when I went to bed. It works..
Right, no big deal. Just charge it for 10 min when you shower, 10 min when you eat lunch, 10 min in a car drive home, 10 min before the gym, and last 10 min before sleep. They should actually reduce battery life for next version from 18 hours to 1.8 hours since it is so convenient to charge every 1.8 hours.
Dude, that's not at all what I'm saying. You obviously don't have an Apple Watch and think you know, when you obviously don't. Like what the f is your problem taking my comment about charging it for 2 short whiles instead of 1 long while and taking it as like I'm charging it 20 times a day?
I in the morning after I wake up put it on the charger and go about my things and put it on before I leave home that plus a quick 15 minutes before I go to bed is all the charging I do and with just that (so maybe an hour and a half of time when I wouldn't be using my watch anyway) my watch easily lasts the rest 22:30 hours of my day.
Nobody, nobody said anything about needing to find multiple times during the day at inconvenient times , it's 2 instead of just overnight, WOW what an inconvience. /s
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It charges pretty quickly and it doesn't need to be at 100% to track sleep.
Only a tiny tiny tiny group of people don’t know when they have a fever so you should be ok unless you have AIDs, a transplanted organ or on chemotherapy.
I wear it all day then around 8pm I put it on the charger. Charged by 9:30 ish and then I wear it at night. Then in the morning I take it off and charge it. Then do my morning routine and put it on when ready to go to work.
I charge it an hour before bed. By that time I have already closed all of my rings, so there’s no sense in me to continue wearing it when it could be charging.
In the morning, while I'm in the shower and then getting shaved and dressed for the day.
In the evening, while I'm doing the "getting ready for bed" routine. In less than ten minutes, it charges enough to easily last through the night.
In the evening for about 20 minutes is usually plenty. Usually when showering. Also, in the morning if I want to make sure it’s not going to be borderline very low battery by end of day, but often I forget in the morning, and it’s okay. Usually. Not ideal but not as much of a hassle as I had thought for many years before getting one.