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Has 6.01 improved your battery life?

Took off charger at 7am, it is now 3:30pm and i have 61% after a 2 hour workout and local music play today. Seems to me shutting off wake on wrist raise was what was doing it for me. Hoping 6.1 will allow me to turn it back on and still get same results as off.
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Aw5 sbti 44 on 6.01. Did an hour gym workout with music streaming cellular. Otherwise normal day of use tinkering etc. aod on. Noise detect off. After 18 hours on was at 19%. First time I tried this on 6.0 dead by 14 hours. So either 6.01 or things settling in with data but battery getting better.
 
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Do any of you guys do workouts while streaming music on cellular. I have the cellular one and it seems all the cellular ones are having the most problems. I take mine off charger at 10:30am and by 1 have 60% after my workouts and music. I do not take my phone with me.
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I do and I agree, workouts with streaming music (on cellular) seem to really hit the battery. I re-read Apple's battery testing, and they say that the 18 hour battery life on the cellular model includes 14 hours bluetooth synced to the watch, and 4 hours on cellular, and includes a 1 hour workout, but the workout is streaming music over bluetooth so it's connected to a phone at that time, which would also use the phone for gps and and cellular activity (emails/ texts, etc), so I'm not 100% surprised that the battery life is poor. I'm sure that it will improve at some point in the near future, but for the time being. I just keep an extra charging cord at work & top it up when I have a conference call that I need to bed on. Not ideal for sure but workable most days.
 
I ran away from 6 and from 6.0.1 for battery drain. it seems that 6.1 b2 has not brought me improvements.

I keep losing 3-4-5% every hour, not using my Apple Watch 5.
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6.1 beta users...any difference in battery life?

I will update the post every hour with the results Apple Watch 5 40 mm LTE 6.1 b2 Noise detector off AOD on app update in the background on notifications on and brightness to a minimum. Wi-Fi off Cellular off connected to my phone (13.1.2) I will try to not use it much 7.50 - 100% -3% 8.50...
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FrancITA said:
I ran away from 6 and from 6.0.1 for battery drain. it seems that 6.1 b2 has not brought me improvements.

I keep losing 3-4-5% every hour, not using my Apple Watch 5.
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6.1 beta users...any difference in battery life?

I will update the post every hour with the results Apple Watch 5 40 mm LTE 6.1 b2 Noise detector off AOD on app update in the background on notifications on and brightness to a minimum. Wi-Fi off Cellular off connected to my phone (13.1.2) I will try to not use it much 7.50 - 100% -3% 8.50...
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As mentioned on the other thread, since the update from B1 to B2 mine is unbelievable. nothing in the first hour - stayed at 100%.

I now have 2 ½ hours standby, and I have just done a 35 min workout (indoor but streaming a podcast to my AirPods from the watch - iPhone was nearby though) and battery at 95%

I have AOD on, raise to wake off and noise off.
 
BillGates1969 said:
As mentioned on the other thread, since the update from B1 to B2 mine is unbelievable. nothing in the first hour - stayed at 100%.

I now have 2 ½ hours standby, and I have just done a 35 min workout (indoor but streaming a podcast to my AirPods from the watch - iPhone was nearby though) and battery at 95%

I have AOD on, raise to wake off and noise off.
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it's not possible for me.
why do you have different numbers than mine?
 
FrancITA said:
it's not possible for me.
why do you have different numbers than mine?
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Not sure. Things I have done is:

Reboot watch after update
Reboot Phone
Turn off noise
Turn off raise to wake (I find I don't need it with AOD)
Turn off background app refresh to apps i don't use regularly.

My watch is the 44mm so has a larger battery than the 40mm (not sure what you have), but the larger battery is offset by the larger screen i think so I don't think there is a benefit to the larger battery.

Also, some watches take a day or two to 'bed in' - on 6.1 B1 for the first few hours I was losing 7-10% an hour

EDIT: Try a hard reset on the watch too - that has helped me in the past
 
BillGates1969 said:
Not sure. Things I have done is:

Reboot watch after update
Reboot Phone
Turn off noise
Turn off raise to wake (I find I don't need it with AOD)
Turn off background app refresh to apps i don't use regularly.

My watch is the 44mm so has a larger battery than the 40mm (not sure what you have), but the larger battery is offset by the larger screen i think so I don't think there is a benefit to the larger battery.

Also, some watches take a day or two to 'bed in' - on 6.1 B1 for the first few hours I was losing 7-10% an hour

EDIT: Try a hard reset on the watch too - that has helped me in the past
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If I turn off background app refresh what's going to happen ?

I’d like examples.

if I turn off background of Activity ?what's going to happen ?
 
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FrancITA said:
If I turn off background app refresh what's going to happen ?

I’d like examples.

if I turn off background of Activity ?what's going to happen ?
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Nothing will happen but give you extra battery. That has got to be the most useless feature. Your app will refresh when you open it. No need to have it refresh when your Not using it.
 
Renho said:
Nothing will happen but give you extra battery. That has got to be the most useless feature. Your app will refresh when you open it. No need to have it refresh when your Not using it.
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Thank you a lot. I knew it. I was looking for practical examples.

What is the difference between having the activity app in the background and turning off the background update of the activity app, for example.


As apple watch is run by iphone, it makes no sense to update apps in the background from apple watch. so why did they put this feature? For just app stand alone installed via watch Apple store? Just for this??? 😳
 
6.0.1 did not improve the life of my wife's AW5 GPS.

Took a Factory Reset to make her watch battery life = to my own.

Hers was using 30%+ a night and needing a charge mid day to keep from shutting off - that's with everything turned off (app updates, notifications, noise, etc...).

Once she did a factory reset and set up as new - she did 12 hours today with 80% left.
 
On 6.01, my 44mm S5 is getting idle battery life of about 3%/hr with AOD on, and about 1%/hr with AOD off. Workouts of course use more.
 
Much better with 6.0.1.

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44mm Series 5. Always on display on. Noise app on. Background refresh on. Compass complication on watch face.
 
Hi everybody,
I have my 40mm Series 5 LTE+GPS for two weeks now. At the beginning I had very bad battery draining. It improved a lot with 6.0.1. I usually lose 3-4% each hour with LTE, WiFi, AOD, raise to wake, hey siri and noise on. Today I tried turning off LTE to see if it improves battery life. I‘m now at 73% with 57 minutes usage and 11h standby. This is with AOD, WiFi, raise to wake, hey Siri and noise enabled and LTE off. So that‘s an average of 2,5% an hour. Pretty great! I think there‘s some software issue with cellular watches since my phone was always near my watch and the watch shouldn’t use its LTE. Hope Apple will fix this with 6.1.
 
Nudlicious said:
Hi everybody,
I have my 40mm Series 5 LTE+GPS for two weeks now. At the beginning I had very bad battery draining. It improved a lot with 6.0.1. I usually lose 3-4% each hour with LTE, WiFi, AOD, raise to wake, hey siri and noise on. Today I tried turning off LTE to see if it improves battery life. I‘m now at 73% with 57 minutes usage and 11h standby. This is with AOD, WiFi, raise to wake, hey Siri and noise enabled and LTE off. So that‘s an average of 2,5% an hour. Pretty great! I think there‘s some software issue with cellular watches since my phone was always near my watch and the watch shouldn’t use its LTE. Hope Apple will fix this with 6.1.
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Do you have the background refresh turned off?
 
S5 Aluminum 44mm. I see a huge improvement.

AOD .. enabled
Background App Refresh ... disabled
Wake screen on wrist raise .... disabled
Silent Mode .... enabled
Watch Face ... Infograph Modular ..with Heart rate BPM graph as center complication.

From 6:30am to 11:45am .... I have 50% left. Before updating to 6.0.1, I would be down to like 38% with the same exact setup.
 
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