How are you able to see the battery health of an Apple Watch?
edit: wow didn't know this was a feature in watchOS 7, in Settings > Battery
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iFixit Apple Watch Series 6 Teardown Finds Larger Battery and Bigger Taptic Engine in Thinner Casing
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How are you able to see the battery health of an Apple Watch?
edit: wow didn't know this was a feature in watchOS 7, in Settings > Battery
You are absolutely correct, but it's good to see that Apple was able to make Apple Watch Series 6 and Apple Watch SE the thinnest Apple Watch to date (previous thinnest Apple Watches, the original and Series 1 are 0.1 mm thicker).
Thinnest is meh imo. It kinda reminds me of that moment in time when every phone maker was racing to have the thinnest handset. Glad that one's over since it quickly reached diminishing returns. We did get better, more efficient component packing from that thinness race so there is that. The thickness of the watches was really never an issue imo. Certainly didn't seem to impact sales. Does it adequately perform it's intended functions? Is it's form reasonably attractive? If the answer is yes to both, a couple of fractions of mm really don't mean much imo. If the thinness is a plus for you, that's cool too. Not knockin' it.
Exactly. Why advertise such a short battery life if people believe it is accurate, and use it to compare to other products? Is the low, 18 hour battery life only achievable if you exercise for 18 straight hours, or you have 4G turned on all the time? 🧐
My Series 3, which is now 2 years old, and easily lasts over 2 days on battery. That’s 48 hours. It would last 3 days if I charged it for 10-15 minutes a day (a total of 30 minutes) while I took my morning showers.
I put mine on yesterday morning, and after 24 hours, including a jog yesterday afternoon, my battery is at 63%.
By the looks of it, there seems to be a lot of space. or is the battery really as thick as the Taptic Engine? Couldn't they put in a second battery to give us twice the amount of battery time?
It’s likely to avoid legal issues. If they advertised 24 hour battery life based on a different scenario someone would put the watch through whatever scenario that drains the battery in 18 hours and sue Apple saying they were lied to. Companies have to deal with a lot of BS like this and it rolls down to the consumer. Even 18 hours is sufficient for most people because that leaves six hours in a 24 hour day to sleep. If you’re using your watch for sleep tracking just put it on the charger while you’re in the shower and getting ready for bed. Most people shower once a day so
What is wrong with 11hrs of usage with 60% left? That looks excellent to me, especially when the watch is only rated for 18 hrs.
You need to spend more time on MacRumors.
Wore my SE 15 hours so far and I am at 53% right now....
That would be 3 sheets of A4 paper thick... at that total thickness, between 10.4mm and 10.7mm, is like noticing the difference between a stack of 104 sheets of A-4, paper and 107 one. I vote “no way it will noticeable”.
A second battery? How do you propose Apple implement a ‘second battery‘? Why wouldn’t they just make it thicker v.s. Adding a second battery? Lets take your Proposal for a second, wouldn’t that increase the thickness substantially? Again, the key is, OLED isn’t efficient enough, micro-led is the key to improving the efficiency of the power Draw, thus resulting in extended battery life without having to enlarge the battery, which increases the thickness/weight, which would go against Apples M.O. traditionally of having thinner products.
Anecdotally my aluminum S0 seemed more noticeable than my current SS S3. I’ll be going back to aluminum whenever I upgrade. In three years I never got used to the weight of the SS model over the aluminum
5 years ago I got an SS watch and I had to return it, as it felt too heavy compared to the aluminum one. I tried wearing it for a while and I couldn’t get used to its weight. At some point I had both versions and I tried wearing each for a full day by taking turns. The SS watch is significantly heavier.
I find it very odd that they didn't implement the 40mm battery design in the 44mm version, they could have improved battery life... frankly, there is no good reason to have two different manufacturing processes for batteries in the same product line. I can only conclude that Apple is 'saving' the battery improvement for the S7
(Tim, if you are reading this, we know what you are doing...)
In any case, I got 40 hours of battery on my S6 yesterday, with AOD on and 2 hours of workout.
(Tim, if you are reading this, we know what you are doing...)
In any case, I got 40 hours of battery on my S6 yesterday, with AOD on and 2 hours of workout.
I find it odd that I can know my Apple Watch and iPhone battery health, but not iPad. Why is it a secret on iPad?
Was looking at my iPad battery just a few mins ago thinking the same thing. I'd also take a reduced power mode, optimized charging too!
Loved iFixit's teardown! Glad to see bigger battery! Can't wait to use my watch!
Because Apple Watch is now their product for innovation before all these improvement filters through to iPhone. That is from OLED, Taptic Engine, Speakers, Battery Packaging, Ceramics, Stainless Steel, Titanium etc.
You cant have leading ledge manufacturing and tech in a volume like newest iPhone. Expected to ship 100M every year.
The problem is now even the Apple Watch are shipping in 10s of millions. We dont know the distribution of latest Apple Watch vs something like Apple Watch SE. If it was 50 / 50 ( Considering the price difference is quite minimal in absolute terms ) that would be 10 Million unit a year.
Even in the best case scenario you cant even put MicroLED in an Apple Watch in 2025 with the current Apple Watch Unit Volume.
And I was hoping Apple could put Solid Battery in their Apple Watch first....
Yep all these feature additions are great. But to be honest, nothing is useful enough in the longer term. ECG feels like a toy instead of a useful feature. You get excited for a little while, play with it, once maybe twice after you buy it. But you realize you never use it or care about it again afterwards, unless you actually have heart problems.
The OG heart rate monitor keeps being the primary, constantly used sensor on an Apple Watch. I'd rather have something like skin thermometer or blood pressure monitor instead of ECG or even SpO2 sensor. It's way more useful as COVID self-diagnosis. Body temperature and blood pressure are invaluable medical data that I'd like to check regularly.
I think Apple feels comfortable with their 18-hour battery life estimate for the Apple Watch, given that the majority of users are going to be charging their watches overnight as they sleep, making any longer battery life moot.
For users who wish to make use of sleep tracking, they can charge the watch in the evening while washing up and having dinner. Same in the morning (charge it) before leaving for work. Hence the support for faster charging. It’s really about finding a routine which works for you.
Somehow, I suspect that even if the next Apple Watch has micro-LED or some other breakthrough which would result in longer battery life, Apple would simply funnel these improvements towards powering other features, rather than marketing longer battery life as a feature, as I doubt this is a major selling point for their users.
If you edit a watch face is now working because of long press, so you think you're using force touch but actually you're not.
If they managed to put a bigger battery, that's good news. Never been a fan of 3D touch even on the iPhone, I think I only used it to activate the camera in the lockscreen but we can now long press or swipe. Long press instead of 3D touch works fine for most interactions
