Is there a way to trigger always on display to turn off at a certain percentage?

[Juiceboy]

My series 5 is getting older and normally dies by early in the evening. I usually do about an hour of workout everyday so I understand that’s a big drain. my watch says it’s at 77% max capacity.

Low power mode on Apple Watch is utterly useless though. Turning ever feature off except time isn’t helpful to me. Turning off the Always on display is a huge boost to saving battery, but requires so many manual steps.

1. Hitting the crown
2. finding settings
3. scrolling To display and brightness
4. tapping it.
5. scroll again
6. tap always on.
7. toggle the setting to off.
8. repeat again to turn them it back on the next day!
   

is there a way to automate this with some sort of Siri shortcut? Like turning off the always on display when the watch reasons 25% would be a big help and then turns back on when charged back to a certain percentage. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[PaladinGuy]

I don’t think there’s a way to have it automatically turn off. You can create a shortcut to turn off/on AOD though. That would just remove some of the steps you have to do.

 

[BigBlur]

You can't trigger off the watch's battery level, but you could make an automation based on time. I created a couple to turn it on at 8am, and off at 11pm. (Or create a shortcut as mentioned.)

Another thing you can do is to have Siri do it. If you have Raise to Speak enabled, just raise your wrist and say "Turn off Always On", or "Turn on Always On". (Edit: This is if you create a shortcut, and tell Siri the name of the shortcuts.)

 

[Phone Junky]

Another thing you can do is to have Siri do it. If you have Raise to Speak enabled, just raise your wrist and say "Turn off Always On", or "Turn on Always On".

Yeah, this doesn't work.

 

[BigBlur]

Yeah, this doesn't work.

You're right! It does work for me though... I figured it was a built-in action for Siri, but it turns out it was just running my shortcuts I had created. 😅

 

[spacemnspiff]

How does one create shortcuts for Apple Watch, is it done on the phone and triggered on the phone or can we have shortcut swipe up on AW?

 

[BigBlur]

How does one create shortcuts for Apple Watch, is it done on the phone and triggered on the phone or can we have shortcut swipe up on AW?

You create it on the phone and there is a toggle to show the shortcut on the watch. Then on the watch, it'll show up in the Shortcuts app. You can run it from there or tell Siri ("Hey Siri, [name of shortcut]"; or if you have raise to speak turned on, then raise your wrist and say "[name of shortcut]".)

 

[spacemnspiff]

Thank you. IMO, Apple should have allowed that to be added AOD toggle as option to the Control Center swipe.

 

[tchoui]

I don’t think there’s a way to have it automatically turn off. You can create a shortcut to turn off/on AOD though. That would just remove some of the steps you have to do.

How To do it?

Without Watch, just Need a shortcut To enable and disable aod.

ON iPhone 14 pro max

 

[PaladinGuy]

How To do it?

Without Watch, just Need a shortcut To enable and disable aod.

ON iPhone 14 pro max

I’m honestly not good with short-cuts. I’ve just read that it’s possible. You might be able to find instructions on Google? Sorry!

 

[tchoui]

I’m honestly not good with short-cuts. I’ve just read that it’s possible. You might be able to find instructions on Google? Sorry!

I dont think its possible