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I think turning off 'Hey Siri' greatly improves battery life
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Yeah mine is the 42mm. And you nailed it with the siri comment there. I look like an @$$hole walking down the street talking at my watch saying the same thing twice and then finally activating siri manually and saying it a third time. They need to fix this.
my post which you quoted answers that question. and saying it all at once doesn't make a difference when siri doesn't activate half the time, no matter how you say it.
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Reset your Watch (from Settings app on Watch) and then re-pair from the backup. Fixed all my Siri activation issues.
I have the same issue, I am waiting for the screen to light up before saying "Hey Siri" and am not pausing before making the query, but still it seems very hit and miss. And it's made worse by the fact that you're expected to just barrel on through saying your entire query before you know for sure if it worked. Yesterday it happened a couple of times and I felt extremely foolish talking to my wrist with nothing happening.
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What does this mean? Is there some setting for background apps I am unaware of?
I'm trying this today for the hell of it (it's my 4th day with the watch, so it's not like I have a huge sample size to draw off of).
Yesterday (before disabling Hey Siri) it took about 2 hours for my battery to drain from 100% to 90%.
Today (after disabling; similar usage rate) it's taken about 2 hours and 50 minutes to go from 100% to 90%.
So in my small sample sized, completely unscientific test, it does seem to make a difference. I'll leave it off for a few days and maybe turn it on again this weekend for another comparison.
38 mm.
Yesterday (before disabling Hey Siri) it took about 2 hours for my battery to drain from 100% to 90%.
Today (after disabling; similar usage rate) it's taken about 2 hours and 50 minutes to go from 100% to 90%.
So in my small sample sized, completely unscientific test, it does seem to make a difference. I'll leave it off for a few days and maybe turn it on again this weekend for another comparison.
38 mm.
Do Daemons use much energy?
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I guess that would work for some. I had a Pebble watch that lasted 5 days and it annoyed the hell out of me because I would always forget to charge it and wanted a device I could just charge with my phone every night. One less thing to remember to do.
It's a hassle to charge the Pebble:
- It comes with a short USB cable and no adapter. The cable used to keep falling behind my nightstand.
- The "magnetic" charging wasn't all that. You'd hold the charger to the phone and it would click but not necessarily make the proper contact to initiate a charge so you had to fuss with it to make it connect properly.
These two things together make it a pain to charge every night.
As you can imagine I'm appreciating the long charging cable the AW came with.
I'm also 38mm, and glad someone else has tried it out! I know I'm not crazy despite what other people said, hah. Unless its simply that I'm using my Watch less than normal... but today was actually my best day for battery life. At 40% as of 11:22PM, took it off the charger at 8:45 AM today, and have been using it moderately.
Hopefully others experiment with this.
Does Siri talk back to you guys? Siri on the watch does not give audio feedback for me, unlike the iPhone.
it doesn't talk and sadly, one of the biggest complaints i have about siri is that it requires interaction after most commands.
"Send a message to [name] that says 'hey where are you'"
[siri opens the messages app, shows the message with a send button]
come on. just give me an option to send the damn thing verbally. what if i'm carrying stuff or driving?
Gotta say, shut this off yesterday and had tons of battery left last night. Didn't change usage amount at all. In fact even used the dictation for texts a lot more than usual. Turning Hey Siri off really seemed to up my battery percentage by end of day.
On another note, I haven't really had any issues making it through the day prior to that anyway. Was just testing this to see since I have not found myself using Hey Siri anyway.
On another note, I haven't really had any issues making it through the day prior to that anyway. Was just testing this to see since I have not found myself using Hey Siri anyway.
I almost rearended someone trying to hit the send button while I was driving. Wish she would just send it off, or maybe have the option to have her read it to you then you can say send.
No kidding. How about turning off wrist raise and taptic feedback as well. Oh Boy! 30% more battery life when I charge it tonight!
Battery life on this watch is completely irrelevant to me. I've never had less than 20% by the end of the day, and that's with all features enabled and messing with it constantly. You people with battery anxiety are completely missing the point here.
It's not like its taking away a function of the device, pressing and holding the digital crown has the same effect as saying "Hey Siri" and is just as fast, if not faster.
For some people the tradeoff for more battery life makes sense, especially if you're using the device heavily. When third party apps become more prominent, battery life will decrease.
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You don't have to use "Hey Siri" to use Siri, as has been pointed out, and while most people probably aren't having trouble with battery life now, in a year or so when the battery has started to lose some of its charge, it may be handy to know what features we might be able to turn off.
This is a false statement. It is not the same thing. It's the difference between pressing a button and not pressing anything. It is by definition taking away a function of the device.
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Ok.. Who's to say the battery life ,or the entire OS for that matter, will be the same a year from now? What happens a year from now is irrelevant.
The fact is, there is no practical point in disabling core features. If you are not using "Hey Siri", you are missing out on the full experience that this device has to offer.
It's not irrelevant to know what features consume a lot of battery. I don't plan to be turning the feature off, but I don't think there's any need to be so dismissive of the idea. Some people might never want to use Hey Siri and have a need for more battery. Let's let them make that decision.
Instead of pressing your button your using your voice. Both take the same amount of time, since in order to activate Siri on 'Hey Siri' the watch face has to be on. When you press the button it doesn't need to be on. Is it really that hard to press a button in the first place? Both actions get the job done. One conserves more battery.
Also there's the fact that Hey Siri doesn't work 100% of the time, so there's a tradeoff there as well.
I agree it's not irrelevant to know what features use a lot of battery, I wasn't saying that. Putting the watch in Power Reserve mode and disabling all of the radios would give you better battery life as well. Of course disabling core features will improve the battery life, that's why it has a battery.
I'm just so tired of this battery obsession people have. Why would you ever want to cripple your device for an extra few percentage points? If your watch is dying half way through the day, I get it. But it's not. No one that I've seen has had trouble with the watch lasting an entire day, regardless of how they're using it.
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Again, you're missing the point. In one scenario, I have to use my hand, in the other scenario, I do not. Do I really need to explain what 'hands free' means, and the benefit?
You don't have to press the button but you'll have to say hey Siri, and the button you want it to acknowledge.
The watch is connected to your hand, it's never hands free. You have to move your hand to turn it on in the first place. The point is some people are willing to exchange 'Hey Siri' for more battery life because they don't find it to be an extremely necessary part of its function, since you can do the same exact thing by pressing a button for one second.
I can understand some people are going battery crazy by turning off haptic, etc, which is overboard and unnecessary. But turning off 'Hey Siri' is a very minor change and doesn't take away from the experience--at least for me.