I know people have had issues with battery life on watchOS 6...those with series 5 how you finding the battery life with cellular only? Do you use it much?
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Battery life using cellular only?
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Yes! Here were my results being phone free - combo of WiFi and cellular which would be common if you are moving between office/home/outside:
Did a test today for my first full day with the Series 5 - tried to see how far in a day you could go completely untethered from the phone - watch had Bluetooth turned off except when I was listening to music on it - pretty good results - especially considering it would have lasted the whole day if I didn’t need to look up websites over cellular for a good 20 minutes or so - this really killed the battery loading those sites - this is on par or better from what I did with the Series 4 last year - on watch only days I would charge while at my desk to have a topped off watch for the night
6:40AM - 100 percent
7AM to 9AM - Cellular
9:00AM - 92 percent
9AM - 11:50AM - WiFi
11:50AM - 81 percent
11:50AM - 1:15PM - Cellular
1:15PM - 72 percent
1:15PM - 2:15PM - WiFi
2:15PM - 65 percent
2:15PM - 5:15PM - cellular (including 25 minutes web browsing and 40 minutes listening to music on AirPods)
5:20PM - 22 percent
5:20PM - 6:05PM - WiFi
6:05PM - 20 percent
6:05PM - 6:22PM - Cellular
6:22PM - 17 percent
6:22PM - 8:02PM - WiFi
8:02PM - 10 percent battery warning
8:02PM - 9:00PM - WiFi
9:00PM - 7 percent
9:00PM - 9:15PM - Cellular
9:15PM - Dead
USAGE STATS:
Battery: 68 Percent (1:45PM)
Usage: 1 hour, 1 minute
Standby: 7 hours, 0 minutes
Battery: 22 Percent (5:28PM)
Usage 2 hours, 27 minutes
Standby: 10 hours, 43 minutes
Battery: 10 Percent (8:03PM)
Usage: 2 hours, 52 minutes
Standby: 13 hours, 19 minutes
Cellular Time: 6 hours, 45 minutes roughly
Did a test today for my first full day with the Series 5 - tried to see how far in a day you could go completely untethered from the phone - watch had Bluetooth turned off except when I was listening to music on it - pretty good results - especially considering it would have lasted the whole day if I didn’t need to look up websites over cellular for a good 20 minutes or so - this really killed the battery loading those sites - this is on par or better from what I did with the Series 4 last year - on watch only days I would charge while at my desk to have a topped off watch for the night
6:40AM - 100 percent
7AM to 9AM - Cellular
9:00AM - 92 percent
9AM - 11:50AM - WiFi
11:50AM - 81 percent
11:50AM - 1:15PM - Cellular
1:15PM - 72 percent
1:15PM - 2:15PM - WiFi
2:15PM - 65 percent
2:15PM - 5:15PM - cellular (including 25 minutes web browsing and 40 minutes listening to music on AirPods)
5:20PM - 22 percent
5:20PM - 6:05PM - WiFi
6:05PM - 20 percent
6:05PM - 6:22PM - Cellular
6:22PM - 17 percent
6:22PM - 8:02PM - WiFi
8:02PM - 10 percent battery warning
8:02PM - 9:00PM - WiFi
9:00PM - 7 percent
9:00PM - 9:15PM - Cellular
9:15PM - Dead
USAGE STATS:
Battery: 68 Percent (1:45PM)
Usage: 1 hour, 1 minute
Standby: 7 hours, 0 minutes
Battery: 22 Percent (5:28PM)
Usage 2 hours, 27 minutes
Standby: 10 hours, 43 minutes
Battery: 10 Percent (8:03PM)
Usage: 2 hours, 52 minutes
Standby: 13 hours, 19 minutes
Cellular Time: 6 hours, 45 minutes roughly
Did another test today - the watch in mainly standby mode with me responding to a few iMessages and checking email a few times a day - the Series 5, 44mm is now at 32% - I was on cellular from 8AM - 7PM, with only around 30 minutes of Bluetooth time. My day started around 6:40AM - it’s now 10PM
Current Usage:
2 hours, 20 minutes usage
14 hours, 37 minutes standby
I am fully confident if you use your watch as a way of staying in touch throughout the day and not doing long phone calls or web browsing then you’ll be good lasting a full day.
This was with raise to wake off and everything else on including AOD
Current Usage:
2 hours, 20 minutes usage
14 hours, 37 minutes standby
I am fully confident if you use your watch as a way of staying in touch throughout the day and not doing long phone calls or web browsing then you’ll be good lasting a full day.
This was with raise to wake off and everything else on including AOD