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chillip

macrumors 68030
Original poster
Mar 16, 2013
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As title says, the battery life on my original launch day watch is really good on the latest software update.
 

Mlrollin91

macrumors G5
Nov 20, 2008
14,030
9,927
Ventura County
As title says, the battery life on my original launch day watch is really good on the latest software update.
I completely agree. Been 5 hours since I've unplugged it. Still at 100%. Usually down to about 85% by now. Being that this is probably the last watchOS 3 update, hopefully 4.0 doesn't kill the battery :(.
 

valenrandy

macrumors regular
Jun 10, 2009
129
69
I'm going to give it a week or 2 to see how it pans out for more folks before I take the plunge lol.
 

Mlrollin91

macrumors G5
Nov 20, 2008
14,030
9,927
Ventura County
I'm going to give it a week or 2 to see how it pans out for more folks before I take the plunge lol.
Being such a small update, there is very little risk in anything going "wrong". These final updates are just for stability and bug fixes. This will probably be the final watchOS 3 update till the fall.
 

woodynorman

macrumors 6502a
Nov 26, 2011
670
310
Updated last night. Watch has been off the charger for 13 hours. Battery is at 80%! Best battery life Ive had with my series 2
 

Mansu944

macrumors 6502a
Mar 11, 2012
706
1,821
Do you people ever raise your wrist, walk or do any kind of workout??? How can your batteries last so long??
 

Peepo

macrumors 65816
Jun 18, 2009
1,128
570
Mine is still as bad... about 14 hours today before it died.
When I first got it would last 18+ hours easily... seems just recently it starting to be real bad.
 

Javabird

macrumors 6502
Apr 27, 2015
413
162
Mine is still as bad... about 14 hours today before it died.
When I first got it would last 18+ hours easily... seems just recently it starting to be real bad.
My battery is draining much faster after upgrading too. I haven't changed any other settings.
 

Lloydbm41

Suspended
Oct 17, 2013
4,019
1,456
Central California
My first full day using my watch and I thought something was wrong, because after 5 hours it only dropped 2 percent. By the end of my day and 12 hours off the charger with around 100 notification, I am at 90%. That's 10x better than anything I ever got with my Android Wear or Samsung Gear smartwatches.

This is some sort of magic?!?
 

Koudspeel

macrumors regular
Apr 8, 2013
158
258
I charged it fully last night and it's 18:31 now and it still has 90% charge left! Battery life certainly got much much better with the last update.
 

TIO

macrumors newbie
Jul 14, 2010
26
1
I'm having different results than the rest of you on my Series 0. I installed the update on Sunday, and Monday had terrible battery performance... died before my day was over. So I un-paired and re-paired last night, and I'm waiting to see how it does today.
 

roboclint

macrumors member
Aug 24, 2011
49
16
Has anyone else had the OPPOSITE effect? Yesterday my watch got to 10% around 10 pm. Today it's almost dead at 7 pm, and I'm not even working out like I usually do (taking the week off for my birthday WOOT).
 

TIO

macrumors newbie
Jul 14, 2010
26
1
Has anyone else had the OPPOSITE effect? Yesterday my watch got to 10% around 10 pm. Today it's almost dead at 7 pm, and I'm not even working out like I usually do (taking the week off for my birthday WOOT).

I did the first day after the update. I did a re-pair, and it's been good since. I'm a couple hours into my day, and still at 100%. The first day, before the re-pair, I was probably at 85% by this time.
 

sean000

macrumors 68000
Jul 16, 2015
1,628
2,345
Bellingham, WA
My 38mm AWS hit the 2 year mark a week or so ago. The battery life is still as good as, if not better than, it was when I first got it. Mileage varies a little depending on how long of a workout I do (If I do a workout at all), but I usually have no trouble with battery. I wear the watch to bed for sleep tracing, so I usually charge it before I go to bed. I usually top it off in the morning while I get ready for work, but it's not totally necessary. If I don't top it off in the morning I will hit 10% by 6 or 7pm, but as long as I top it off I will have between 10 and 30 % when I charge it in the evening.

Most devices with internal batteries start to hold less of a charge after two years of use, but perhaps Watch OS has gotten more efficient so I haven't noticed? Overall I'm impressed that two year old gadget works better in terms of performance than it did when it was new.



Sean
 

prk60091

macrumors member
Nov 13, 2011
72
16
42mm AWS over 2 years old (i got it on launch day so May 2015) -- Really weird battery life- yesterday at 16 hours still 10% (i just rec'd the 10% warning when i was putting it on the charger for the nite... and today dead at 12 hours
 

danapellerin

macrumors newbie
Apr 11, 2017
2
23
Has anyone else had the OPPOSITE effect? Yesterday my watch got to 10% around 10 pm. Today it's almost dead at 7 pm, and I'm not even working out like I usually do (taking the week off for my birthday WOOT).

Yeah, I'm burning through about 7% an hour since the update. I've rebooted, repaired, disabled just about everything and still just terrible battery life. Before the update I'd end up with about 40% left by the time I went to bed. Now I'm lucky if the watch stays on until dinner time.
 

prk60091

macrumors member
Nov 13, 2011
72
16
22 hours into my day i am down to 20% left---everything was purring along with adequate (18 hours +/- ) battery from the update until yesterday... something is wrong and i dn know what.or how to fix... pairing and unpairing does not change anything.... another ideas???
 
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prk60091

macrumors member
Nov 13, 2011
72
16
22 hours into my day i am down to 20% left---everything was purring along with adequate (18 hours +/- ) battery from the update until yesterday... something is wrong and i dn know what.or how to fix... pairing and unpairing does not change anything.... another ideas???

Oops I meant 10 hours not 22 hours

Now @11 hours into my day I have to 14% left
 
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