Battery Likely for Upcoming Apple Watch Series 6 Filed in Certification Listings

[antbob]

Software optimisations are already pretty aggressive on the Watch and its mostly idle most of the time eg apps get suspended real quick once they have no user interaction and punished for excessive cpu use or cpu spiking. There are obviously exceptions where apps have some genuine background activity or irresponsible developers circumventing those measures but overall there doesnt seem to be any low hanging fruit where Apple can squeeze it much without affecting functionality. There might be some areas of improvement eg how they manage radios (bluetooth, wifi, cell) in some low signal or interference situations but new more power efficient hardware and perhaps some new battery technology are likely to have more significant effect.

Could greater battery life (even 2 more hours), be achieved with a more efficient processor, and further optimizing always on software?

 

[Apple_Robert]

Always on display and 32 GB of storage were 2 key features to get me to upgrade from Series 4 to Series 5. I haven't seen anything yet that would get me to upgrade to Series 6.

There is still time to be amazed come September.

As to battery life, I am going to expect the same battery life as my series 5.

 

[Caliber26]

It’s really 2.5 days with regular use honestly. Anyone seeing only 1 day is using GPS and cellular a ton. I find the battery life to be more than adequate.

Is GPS something that can be turned off? Or were you referring to using certain functions, such as workouts?

 

[lmac33]

You are long overdue.

If these forums can’t induce you to spend money on an Apple Watch, what’s good is this place in your life? Time to get with the Apple team and help us score an Apple Watch touchdown.

That's where I'm at. I bought a series 1 right after my wife got the series 3 because I didn't think I would like it and just wanted to test the waters. Thought about making the jump the last couple of times but 6 is most likely to get me.

 

[maerz001]

Good as my series 5 battery life has been poor overall.

So what exactly is good about it?

 

[allenvanhellen]

I’m hoping that the Watch gets thinner and the case gets a bit smaller by further reducing display bezels. If not, I won’t be buying one.

 

[Shirasaki]

Well it is amazing that my Apple Watch 1.0 is still running today after all the years I have owned from the original release of the watch with the same battery. But it is time to upgrade to Apple Watch 6 this fall

Yeah, talking about longevity here. Your Apple Watch has paid for itself, several times over.
I hope my Apple watch can last as long as my iPhone and iPad, so I can upgrade all of them in once.

 

[Shirasaki]

32 GB of storage

If Apple still heavily limits music storage space, 32GB means nothing. There’s no point to download 600 apps on watch and you cant store a lot of photos either.

 

[Brien]

Always on display and 32 GB of storage were 2 key features to get me to upgrade from Series 4 to Series 5. I haven't seen anything yet that would get me to upgrade to Series 6.

Same. I will keep my S5 and stay on OS6. Losing force touch scares me.

 

[Aston441]

no interest in a new AW until it's round. tired of square

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

I reckon they will release the new Watch before the iPhone.

In the UK we are getting streams of Apple Watch adverts on prime time TV for the current model. This is always their big last push about a month before a new version is released.

It’s so obvious, this trend happens every year across all product ranges and I don’t know why more people haven’t picked up on this yet.

Most large retailers do this. We notice it more for Apple as discount prices are unusual because Apple is very careful with its pricing and what they allow retailers to do with the pricing.

Amazon usually released Kindles in November, in time for Christmas. There are usually lots of Kindle deals in the run up periods. Similarly when they released the new FireStick, they had a price drop for the period beforehand.

It's the same principle as an 'end of season sale' in clothing.

The price drop enables their suppliers to shift existing stock.

 

[Piggie]

I know it's not possible now.
Well it is, but it's hard to do it in any nice way.

Placing the battery into the strap.
Thin and flexible battery.

Just think, if this was possible, done in a nice way, you could simply replace your strap in seconds with a freshly charged strap.

Wonder if battery tech will ever be able to allow for this?

Then you'd have all that space inside the watch for more tech, or to make it thinner.
No problems with battery swelling and breaking the watch apart.
No need to get an expensive repair if you had battery life issues.
It would be a win win all around.

 

[macduke]

I’m still salty about the removal of force touch. It makes so much sense on a watch to access an additional layer of menus and customization. How does it even work now? I’m running iOS 14 but don’t run watchOS betas.

 

[Shirasaki]

I’m still salty about the removal of force touch. It makes so much sense on a watch to access an additional layer of menus and customization. How does it even work now? I’m running iOS 14 but don’t run watchOS betas.

It’s extra hardware that is useless and chuck precious space inside your watch. All force touch features are removed in watchOS 7 beta.

 

[Eriamjh1138@DAN]

Well it is amazing that my Apple Watch 1.0 is still running today after all the years I have owned from the original release of the watch with the same battery. But it is time to upgrade to Apple Watch 6 this fall

Mine popped its screen last year so I replaced the battery at the same time figuring it was because of battery swell. It’s now just a slew monotreme. I mean sleep monitor.

Thanks, autocorrect.

 

[jezbd1997]

I was very excited about the upcoming version 6 until I heard they are cutting out force touch. I was ambivalent about it on the phone (nice but long touch works almost as well, plus that's how my iPad works so I'm accustomed to it) but I use force touch on the Watch constantly. Not sure it was worth 2% better battery capacity...

They seem to be cutting it out from software anyway so same situation unless you don’t update your software and keep the same iPhone forever

 

[aloyouis]

I know it's not possible now.
Well it is, but it's hard to do it in any nice way.

Placing the battery into the strap.
Thin and flexible battery.

Just think, if this was possible, done in a nice way, you could simply replace your strap in seconds with a freshly charged strap.

Wonder if battery tech will ever be able to allow for this?

Then you'd have all that space inside the watch for more tech, or to make it thinner.
No problems with battery swelling and breaking the watch apart.
No need to get an expensive repair if you had battery life issues.
It would be a win win all around.

Why is this impossible? If a watch band were available that had two or three battery bumps on the band maybe the size of A couple of pencil erasers I would buy it. Would it be ugly? Yes. Would it be super functional to be able to change out the watchband and replace it with a fully charged one? That would be awesome!

 

[jamie0610]

I remember a good few years back Apple patented a technology that allowed a solar panel to be put behind an iPhone screen. It seems Garmin have managed to produce a similar technology for their watches that allows "up to 24 DAYS" of battery life. I wonder with the introduction of sleep tracking if Apple will implement something like this for Apple Watch 6.? I recon the vast majority of people are charging their Watch while they sleep so something will need to change...

 

[QuarterSwede]

Mine is usually around 50% when I go to bed. I wouldn’t get through a 2nd day. I don’t consider myself a heavy user, but I’m not going to turn off useful features to try and squeeze a 2nd day of battery life out. If I wanted to do that, I’d buy a watch with fewer features.

I have zero features off and use it for running workouts. I’m afairly heavy user of it at work too. The only thing I consciously do is leave the screen brightness at low because it’s still plenty bright.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Is GPS something that can be turned off? Or were you referring to using certain functions, such as workouts?

Workouts, correct. Anyone using it for marathons, for instance, is going to see less than a days usage before charging.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

I have zero features off and use it for running workouts. I’m afairly heavy user of it at work too. The only thing I consciously do is leave the screen brightness at low because it’s still plenty bright.

Which series?

 

[Vanilla35]

It’s really 2.5 days with regular use honestly. Anyone seeing only 1 day is using GPS and cellular a ton. I find the battery life to be more than adequate.

I have a series 4. Mine is at ~60%-40% end of day almost no matter what I do. I don't use it for anything except notifications and occasional workouts. Even the days I'm sitting at my desk working from home, just going to the kitchen and back, I still end the day at 50%. WiFi and Bluetooth always on.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Which series?

Series 4.
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I have a series 4. Mine is at ~60%-40% end of day almost no matter what I do. I don't use it for anything except notifications and occasional workouts. Even the days I'm sitting at my desk working from home, just going to the kitchen and back, I still end the day at 50%. WiFi and Bluetooth always on.

60% would be a low for me. I’ve got a series 4 44mm GPS only.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Series 4.
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60% would be a low for me. I’ve got a series 4 44mm GPS only.

Gotcha. I'm on an S5 and I think the S4 has better battery life. My wife's battery when her S4 was new would sometimes only go down to 70% on a day when she didn't do a GPS exercise, so I can see how multi-day would be feasible on an S3 or S4. Now hers is a year older than my S5 and our battery life's are about the same day to day simply because hers has had more cycles on it.

 

[kyykesko]

Sleep tracking is pretty useless as long as the battery drains as fast as it does (ser5 gps+cell). Currently having to charge it once during the day and when it's time to bed it's down to 10%. I could charge it to ~40% quickly before bed but then it'd be out of juice in the morning. The alarm clock feature seems stupid, too, as every time I've tried to use it the battery dies during the night (if it's on my wrist). No matter if the battery's at 100%, 60% or 40% when I go to bed. Thank God I also set my iPhone and iPad to wake me up (just in case).

I'd love this watch if it actually had a battery life you can use. Now it's an expensive toy with plenty of features you can't really ever use properly. One quick 10km walk with activity tracking on and the battery's gone. That's about it.