Battery Life

[mikezmac]

15h and 30min then my 38mm sport Goes to power save mode

Do you have background apps running? If you don't need background apps running turn them off. They are a huge drain on the watch and the iPhone battery. Delete any unused apps from the watch. Turn off notifications that you don't want on the watch. After this you should have a watch Taylored to your needs and a battery that will last throughout the day np.

( background apps is huge. If you don't need it turn it off. Most people think they need this but few do. Unless you're watching for an important stock trade and NEED real time most things can wait until you click the app.)

 

[mikepepe86]

Do you have background apps running? If you don't need background apps running turn them off. They are a huge drain on the watch and the iPhone battery. Delete any unused apps from the watch. Turn off notifications that you don't want on the watch. After this you should have a watch Taylored to your needs and a battery that will last throughout the day np.

( background apps is huge. If you don't need it turn it off. Most people think they need this but few do. Unless you're watching for an important stock trade and NEED real time most things can wait until you click the app.)

Can you elaborate on how to turn background apps running on/off on AW? I can't seem to find that setting anywhere in the AW App?

 

[mikezmac]

It's not on the Apple watch app. They are on the iPhone under :
Settings > general > background app refresh

This will help the battery life on the phone and the watch of there are apps that have related watch apps.

I've turned most off on my phone, my mothers, sisters and sister in laws and we all have seen a noticble savings in battery life.

Hope this helps. Tomorrow have the watch charged to full and use it all day and post the battery at night. I'm guessing you'll have 15-30% easy.

Note these batteries will see a faster drop in the 1st 100-80% or so, drain will then appear to slow. It may seem to speed up again 40-20% and then the last 20% will go slow. This is normal for this kind of battery. In short. Don't stare at the battery life.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

My battery has never come close to being empty in a day, and that is with heavy usage and some 20 hour days.