I upgraded from 4 to 7 and you really can notice the difference, specially the always-on and the 45mm screen increase. People is focused on “new health sensors” but let’s be honest, I’m a medical student, and 90% of the people don’t understand the meaning of those results and really don’t care about them. Hold on an upgrade just because the “health sensors” it’s just a stupidity, we all use more the screen than the health sensors.
Yes, but they won’t fast charge S6 or earlier.
Most people are not having problems with 15.
Unfortunately not.
You have to be on some version of iOS 15.
Agree with every part of that.
I am not going to quote all of the posts on AOD and battery life, and I haven’t performed any strict comparative tests, but I have turned AOD quite a few times since it became available and I have no doubt that turning it off noticeably extends battery life.
I would have thought that the larger display would have made the S7 worth considering. I think it’s probably the most significant part of the S7 changes.
Health sensors don’t need to be actively used most of the time. They have to work in the background to collect data, in order to generate a bigger database, allowing to recognize certain health-related trends.
I remember getting my series 2, and how slow it was from day 1. S7 must be a very nice upgrade from that 😃
100% agree. Still using blood, glucose testing is NOT 100% accurate due to a thousand reasons (mechanical and human).
S3 here. It's INSANE how much nicer this thing is.
…coming from S4, always ON is not compelling enough to upgrade unless flaunting is your main reason 😉
How on earth are you getting 30 hours? I have an S5 that was setup as new. I don’t use any 3rd party apps and use a black background watch face to conserve power. All it does through the day is provide notifications and as a workout tracker for 90 mins. I take it off the charger at 8am and by 10pm it’s in the red zone - 10% battery. Extrapolating that’s about 15 hours tops
I have an S5 and never had an issue with battery life from the always on display
I love having an Apple Watch. Totally silent notifications as little pulses on your wrist totally make it worthwhile to have. Phones making noise is such a disruption at work and other places
Maybe because I don’t have an always on display? Not sure, but battery life has been around that since I got the watch. It seems a little shorter over the last few months and usually with each new OS version the battery life drops for a couple of releases but it usually hovers around that 30 hour mark. I usually charge before bed and do sleep tracking with about 80% charge in the morning. I can go into the next morning if I forget to charge that night. I do 45-60 minutes a day of tracking a walk-run with gps. I do have a lot of the notifications turned off but some are still turned on.
5 years? That’s some amazing restraint to not upgrade.
The S4 I have is fast and does everything that the newer series does aside from always on display and oxygen testing. If the S7 had blood glucose testing added then I would have upgraded, but no need yet and the battery health on my S4 cellular model is still very high.
I’m bouncing between a Garmin and AW6. Battery life vs 2wk Garmin was a big concern.
Battery life on series 2 was definitely not as good in the end, not just because of age but because subsequent watchOS versions drained it much faster than the version it came with. However, as of last week, it still lasted all day (came home with ~65% on a slow day and ~45% on a more active day). Caveat: I stopped going to the gym regularly in March 2020 because of the pandemic - at that time, I would come home with ~65% after being at work all day and going to the gym before coming home.
