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Turning off Hey Siri, also switching off Mail notifications is now leaving me with around 60% battery after a full day, 7am - 10pm of wearing the watch... this is awesome!
 
That would not be correct. Siri required a daemon to be running to listen for when you say "hey siri"
(the daemon won't stop running and start with every wrist raise or you'd have performance issues)

Although I'd leave it on, it's a powerful tool.

Actually I think it would be about 2 lines of code.

OnWristRaise turn "HeySiri" on.

OnWrist Lowrr turn "HeySiri" off.

At least something like that.
 
Turning off Hey Siri, also switching off Mail notifications is now leaving me with around 60% battery after a full day, 7am - 10pm of wearing the watch... this is awesome!

What is the point of that? The watch will die in the middle of the following day.

Why not just leave everything on and charge it at night alongside your phone?
 
I dunno for sure but my Watch has been on my wrist for 18 hours now including an hour workout and I still have 40%. Mine is a 42 so yes battery is a touch larger. What else did I do today? One phone call of 90 seconds or so. Many, many notifications for emails, activity, etc. lots of screen time from moving my arm even when I did not want the screen to light up.

If you get through your day to the point that you are ready to go to bed and you still have any charge at all left why worry about it?
Well that's my point MartyCan, without disabling "Hey Siri" my 38mm watch would be dead before my day ended.
 
Finding myself with about 25% more battery life by the end of the day since I turned it off. Not sure if its a coincidence or if it really is a big battery drain.

Anyone else tried it/ would be interested in testing it out?

No way... Hey Siri is one of the things I enjoy most about the watch.

Since I go for a full day (7:30ish am to at least 11:30pm) every day with 25-35% battery left at the end of the night (and that includes a one hour work out), I've got all the battery I need.
 
Well that's my point MartyCan, without disabling "Hey Siri" my 38mm watch would be dead before my day ended.

Did you see the post where it talked about the proper way to use Hey Siri? I think that guy has a point - you need to say Hey Siri and issue your command all in one sentence, not wait for the watch to do something after you say Hey Siri.
 
I noticed that it didnt work about 66% of the time 'Raise watch, Hey Siri....' Nothing.
Is there a way to Activate siri without the 'hey siri' command that could be utilized instead?
(like the side button for instance. THAT would be a LOT More useful then the stupid friends app)
 
I noticed that it didnt work about 66% of the time 'Raise watch, Hey Siri....' Nothing.
Is there a way to Activate siri without the 'hey siri' command that could be utilized instead?
(like the side button for instance. THAT would be a LOT More useful then the stupid friends app)

Press and hold digital crown.
 
Did you see the post where it talked about the proper way to use Hey Siri? I think that guy has a point - you need to say Hey Siri and issue your command all in one sentence, not wait for the watch to do something after you say Hey Siri.

That could also be part of my problem. Im used to the iphone where you say it, wait for the 'ding ding' then issue a command.
 
That could also be part of my problem. Im used to the iphone where you say it, wait for the 'ding ding' then issue a command.

Yes the few times I tried it out I did the same thing. Said Hey Siri and waited. Maybe I'll try it more another time by issuing the entire command. For now testing battery with it off.
 
I have been using Hey Siri for almost everything and my watch is in between 35 and 40 percent every night. It is such an integral part of the functionality of the watch, I wouldn't dream of turning it off. Especially when charging the watch at night is basically as simple as taking it off and laying it down on the night stand on top of the little charging disc. It's so not a big deal.
 
As others have mentioned, saying just "Hey Siri" does nothing at all. You have to issue the command right after, so try out "hey siri, test, test, test."

And I am also quick to question many of the battery life saving tips that so often are just snake oil. But why should technology be any different from anything else, where anecdotal evidence and other pseudoscience is preferred over scientifically testing theories and collecting data?

Bottom line is the placebo effect is real, so no reason to left facts get in the way of your happiness -- ignorance is bliss.
 
That would not be correct. Siri required a daemon to be running to listen for when you say "hey siri"
(the daemon won't stop running and start with every wrist raise or you'd have performance issues)

Although I'd leave it on, it's a powerful tool.

A daemon running will use practically no resources, it will only do any processing when you raise your wrist.

That said, if you raise your wrist 60 times a day, and it does 20 seconds of processing each time, that's still 20 minutes of audio processing, which will probably knock a few % off.
 
What is the point of that? The watch will die in the middle of the following day.

Why not just leave everything on and charge it at night alongside your phone?

No, it would suffice for a whole second day, since the first day used up only 40% of total battery and there are still 60% left.
 
Did you see the post where it talked about the proper way to use Hey Siri? I think that guy has a point - you need to say Hey Siri and issue your command all in one sentence, not wait for the watch to do something after you say Hey Siri.
No I missed that, thank you! The only problem with that is that sometimes she doesn't hear you or isn't listening even when the screen is active. So I got in the habit of waiting to feel the taptic engine thump that confirms she's listening after you say, "Hey Siri". But I start my request immediately after I feel the haptic engine or see the screen change to confirm she heard me.


The" activate on wrist " is what saves me battery when turning it off
Which by extension would also solve the "Hey Siri" battery drain, as every time the screen activates she's listening. If you aren't getting dozens of false screen activations a day, that's also dozens of times siri isn't using battery just to see if you want to talk to her.
 
I don't understand the battery issues here. I have hey siri on, medium brightness, highest haptic feedback, and i'm still ending the day with 40% battery. I got rid of all the apps i don't use and only have a few glances: now playing, activity, weather, battery, and settings.

my issue with Hey Siri is that it only activates about 50% of the time for me and when it does, it stops listening before i even open my mouth, thus making me look like an idiot if i say the whole command in one sentence and then it turns out Siri didn't activate.
 
If that's the case then why doesn't she respond when the screen is off if she's actively listening?

Like most processes if they are called upon to start it's not as fast as if you have a daemon which is always running. This is simply how you handle services on a device.

Open a terminal window on your mac and issue a ps -All (or look in services under windows.) You will see all the stuff running and waiting for when you need it.
 
Sorry if I missed somethin, I understood that you increased your battery life by 25% but don't recall you specically saying it was dead at the end of the day.
No problem, I may have not mentioned it in this thread specifically. Long story short, the only way I can get in the ballpark of the 18 hours of battery life on my 38mm is by disabling "Hey Siri" per Apple's tech support suggestion. Prior to do so, my 38mm was lasting as little as 12hrs and 14 - 14.5hrs at the most.

Of course, we shouldn't need to disable tentpole features just to make it through the day, especially when those with the 42mm model are finding themselves with 20-50% juice left in the tank at day's end.
 
my issue.....it stops listening before i even open my mouth, thus making me look like an idiot if i say the whole command in one sentence and then it turns out Siri didn't activate.

Do you pause after hey siri? Don't.

Hey siri, (pause) open <app name>
or
Hey siri open <app name>

try just saying what you want without pause in a normal speaking tone and speed.
 
I don't understand the battery issues here. I have hey siri on, medium brightness, highest haptic feedback, and i'm still ending the day with 40% battery. I got rid of all the apps i don't use and only have a few glances: now playing, activity, weather, battery, and settings.
I'm betting you have the 42mm, yeah?

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Do you pause after hey siri? Don't.

Hey siri, (pause) open <app name>
or
Hey siri open <app name>

try just saying what you want without pause in a normal speaking tone and speed.
The issue with that is you'll find 50% of the time she was never listening in the first place and you're just staring at your clockface as nothing happens.
 
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