Just curious if anybody shuts their Watch off after it’s fully charged because I noticed that the battery drains if I don’t
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Do you shut your watch off after it’s charged?
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No, never.
Leave it on the charger til you wear it again, doesn’t cause harm
I take it off the charger as soon as it hits 100% and put it back on my wrist.
Is there anyway to leave the watch on overnight without it losing battery and not being plugged in?
There are so many opinions and myths out there about battery charging etc. it’s a tool, it won’t last forever… I always get AC+ for my AW and don’t worry about battery health and all that
Will the battery’s life be shortened if you leave it on the charger overnight?
Yes.
Will it be shortened by a meaningful amount?
No.
As in … wake up in the middle of the night the moment it’s done charging to take it off the charger, and it might be seven years before the battery falls below 80%. Leave it on the charger all night and it might be six years and eight months before it falls below 80%.
But, one thing is for certain: if you interrupt your sleep every night just to baby the watch’s battery, your own lifespan will be diminished, along with your quality of life — and in significant ways.
Use the watch as it’s designed to be used. Accept that it will eventually fail and that, not only is there nothing you can do to prevent it from failing, there’s nothing significant you can do to delay its failure. (There’s plenty you could do to hasten its failure, of course, such as smashing it with a hammer.)
And … “pro tip:” this is true of everything, even the Earth, even the Sun, even the Universe itself.
Even you yourself.
b&
Yes.
Will it be shortened by a meaningful amount?
No.
As in … wake up in the middle of the night the moment it’s done charging to take it off the charger, and it might be seven years before the battery falls below 80%. Leave it on the charger all night and it might be six years and eight months before it falls below 80%.
But, one thing is for certain: if you interrupt your sleep every night just to baby the watch’s battery, your own lifespan will be diminished, along with your quality of life — and in significant ways.
Use the watch as it’s designed to be used. Accept that it will eventually fail and that, not only is there nothing you can do to prevent it from failing, there’s nothing significant you can do to delay its failure. (There’s plenty you could do to hasten its failure, of course, such as smashing it with a hammer.)
And … “pro tip:” this is true of everything, even the Earth, even the Sun, even the Universe itself.
Even you yourself.
b&
I switch off my series 4 since summer 2021 after charge (I use it for sleep monitoring and physical activity tracking). No problem at all in this way.