Having looked through the forum and searching posts I didn't really find what I was looking for although what I did seem to see were individuals with better performance than I am seeing.
Bit of background, I had a series 5 up until last week which pretty much overnight decided to no longer last the day. Prior to this I had never even looked at the battery percentage or had I had the 10% warning. It pretty much aligned with the installation of WatchOS 9.5. I tried un-pair and re-pair from back up tried the same as a new watch. I hadn't changed any other settings such as raise on wake, background refresh all these were still on as per my previous settings. Battery health with this watch was at 79% ~ 2 years old.
So, with this in mind I could of sent it to apple for £85 and had a replacement or go for a new watch which I decided the latter. So I've had it for 3 days now, first day I ignored its battery performance as it hadn't had a full charge.
Second day performance was a little better however I would still only get around 12 hours before being on the last 10% remaining, bearing in mind my S5 would easily go 15+ without me even checking the battery %.
Third day (today) I've carried out a 2.5 hour out door cycle ride (without using workout) so would have been tracking HR etc. It's currently been on my wrist for just under 13 hours and has 8% left. I have seen some people getting 24-48 hours from a single charge I am no where near this, although I am aware of the 18 hours Apple say.
Thanks!
Bit of background, I had a series 5 up until last week which pretty much overnight decided to no longer last the day. Prior to this I had never even looked at the battery percentage or had I had the 10% warning. It pretty much aligned with the installation of WatchOS 9.5. I tried un-pair and re-pair from back up tried the same as a new watch. I hadn't changed any other settings such as raise on wake, background refresh all these were still on as per my previous settings. Battery health with this watch was at 79% ~ 2 years old.
So, with this in mind I could of sent it to apple for £85 and had a replacement or go for a new watch which I decided the latter. So I've had it for 3 days now, first day I ignored its battery performance as it hadn't had a full charge.
Second day performance was a little better however I would still only get around 12 hours before being on the last 10% remaining, bearing in mind my S5 would easily go 15+ without me even checking the battery %.
Third day (today) I've carried out a 2.5 hour out door cycle ride (without using workout) so would have been tracking HR etc. It's currently been on my wrist for just under 13 hours and has 8% left. I have seen some people getting 24-48 hours from a single charge I am no where near this, although I am aware of the 18 hours Apple say.
Thanks!
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