New Ultra 2 - How common is “Low Battery. To continue, connect Apple Watch to its Charger.”

[Loi84]

Brand new and showed that message upon unboxing. It did have some charge on it though - it didn’t show as empty when i put it on the puck, but around 30%

Still strange, no?

Would you still replace? Prior devices always had 60% plus and turned on. Don’t wanna risk a mediocre battery down the road.

 

[Apple_Robert]

No need to replace. The watch is fine.

 

[Howard2k]

Batteries lose charge over time. It’s routine for battery powered electronics to have various states of power when activated by the consumer.

You can just charge it.

 

[Beerstalker]

I believe the Apple Watch requires the battery to be charged to 50% or higher in order to run updates/pair to a new phone etc. That is likely why you saw this if it was a newly unboxed Watch that you were trying to set up.

Once the watch is set up it should work fine all the way down to 0% battery. I believe it gives warnings at 20% and 10%, but it will keep working once you dismiss the warning.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

Brand new and showed that message upon unboxing. It did have some charge on it though - it didn’t show as empty when i put it on the puck, but around 30%

Still strange, no?

Would you still replace? Prior devices always had 60% plus and turned on. Don’t wanna risk a mediocre battery down the road.

Not strange, it's very common. Nothing wrong with your watch

 

[jb310]

Charge it to full and see if you have battery issues over the next few days... you should have 14 days to return without any questions asked.

 

[Loi84]

Charge it to full and see if you have battery issues over the next few days... you should have 14 days to return without any questions asked.

I did. Went from 100 to 86% in 24 hours. Marginal usage though. But in line with expectations as far as I am aware. So should be all fine.