I currently charge my Apple Watch for half an hour before I sleep and then half an hour while I’m getting a shower and ready for the day in the morning, so I can use AutoSleep. I hope this next version has fast charging or a more efficient battery so I don’t have to manage my charging times so much.
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Apple Watch Sleep Tracking, Schooltime Mode, AR/VR Headset Icon, and More Revealed in iOS 13 Code
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You mean clear your messages? If yes, pull down the message list give it a hard press and it will give you the option to clear all.
They're gonna have to improve the battery life for me to be able to sleep with it on. I barely get eight hours a day with my Series 4
I feel you, I want that feature as well, a way around it for now is to use iCloud messages and then delete all on the phone, which will delete it on the watch.
So, if the battery lasts two days that would enable sleep tracking every second night. And if it lasts three days, it would enable sleep tracking two out of three nights? Or how does this work in your mind?
Every device you want to wear during the night needs be charged by pencilling in time for that during the day. Whether that it is once per week, every second day or every day doesn't really make a difference. At one point, I had a schedule of charging my Fitbit every Wednesday and Sunday evening (ie, it lasted four days). Then as the battery life waned, I had change this to every second day.
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Meaning you already have to charge it twice per day. With sleep tracking that simply changes to three times per day.
I wear my Series 3 Watch as an alarm while I sleep. That only drains about 5% of power overnight so there's plenty for a full day. Sometimes I top it off while I'm in shower or right before bed. Since Apple is writing their own APIs, I'm sure their sleep tracking will be the best for power use.
I agree. They could have done it easily with the current design. I imagine that going after the FDA approval would have been an issue. Their director of medical issues used to run a big pulse oximeter company (Masimo).
That is how I charge my Fitbit.
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I always switch to my opposite wrist during the night.
P.S.: You might already know this, but cleaning the watch and the band regularly also helps. Accumulated sweat and dirt increase the potential for skin irritation.
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I think this indicates a Series 5 Apple Watch with much better battery, also the sleep mode will probably run in a low power mode.
With my S4 if I turn it off when I go to sleep I can easily go for more than two days without charging it.
been mentioned already but echoing...what's the use of a sleep tracking program if the Apple Watch can barely last a waking day and needs to be charged at night. particularly if you use it to track an activity - even a modest half hour run or bike ride destroys more batter life than it should.
Barely 8 hours a day? Then I question your usage with your Apple Watch that you’re only accruing eight hours of battery life. I mean, are you using LTE extensively/making a lot of calls? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone only having eight hours of battery life on their Apple Watch Series 4. There’s plenty of adjustments that you can make within your settings to manage the battery life more effectively.
That last set of icons actually indicates a new cassette tape mode. The Watch will be able to wirelessly control your old boombox.
I was thinking the same, hopefully this is an indication that they have done justness that.
Oh, yeah, an Apple Watch needs a good eight hours of sleep to fully recharge its batteries. [/sarcasm]
Except of course that it takes at most two hours and if you recharge it twice a day, that might reduce to twice 45 minutes (charging from zero to 80% takes 90 minutes, charging from 10 to 60% might thus take only 45 minutes, do that twice per day and you get the equivalent of a full charge per day).
Thus depending on usage, your watch might be able to track for 22 to 23 hours of what you do per day. It's your choice which one or two hours of the day it doesn't track. It doesn't have to be the night.
Zero interest in wearing a watch to bed, but nice for those who want it I guess? So odd to me that this is a commonly requested feature.
Oh, I know. I was thinking more of German stating 2020. If these are in iOS 13, I think that means we'll see them sometime before 2020, unless they want to punt the features to a new watch and ios 14
That is similar to mine. I felt my 3 ran longer. At least 2 1/2 days with workout and pillow sleep tracking. Some people get that much on their S4 too.
I can’t say I’ve experienced this with series 4. I definitely did with series 3 but the 4 has been much more of a battery hog.
