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Terrible battery life
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Today at 9am I had both S0 and S5 on my arms today but today I turned off the always on display and just as i though I ended up with 78% at 11pm instead of 54% like yesterday. I never interact with my apple watch. Everything is turned off. Its in airplane mode with no bluetooth and wifi. Only using it for having the time. So basically the always on display takes about 25-30% battery in 1 day (9am to 11pm) just like many other people have reported. Thats pretty disappointing 
my 4.5 year old S0 outruns my S5, haha. I can't imagine how fast the battery will drain if I have the clock connected to my phone and actually use it for more than just looking at the time.
my 4.5 year old S0 outruns my S5, haha. I can't imagine how fast the battery will drain if I have the clock connected to my phone and actually use it for more than just looking at the time.There is a huge battery hit with AOD ON. I get about 25-30% more juice with the AOD turned off. I have both S0 and S5 and have worn them for 2 days now. I don't use the watch at all except having the time. Ive turned off bluetooth, wifi,background refresh, background noise and put it in airplane mode as well.
I swapped out my series 5 dark gray aluminum for the light gray and my battery life is much better. i wore the dark gray one to bed and in the morning the battery life was at 50%. Woke up this morning and my battery was at 90%. Maybe it’s not a software issue and some models have bad batteries?
Take it back and exchange it there is something wrong there. I've done 2 different workouts today, alerts, siri, looked at emails.
And I'm at 54% after 11hrs standby, not great but certainly way better than yours is showing.
Off charger at around 5:45 AM, basically 6.5 hours off charger so far and battery is at 78%. AOD is On, Noise readings off, beta 6.1 on watch ios 13.1 on 11 Pro max. I don't know actual usage times at this point since I had a random reboot (beta issue i assume) but my usage typical for my day (reading a few emails/news blips, text messages and receipt of several dozen notifications). At this point, I will say my battery is as good, if not slightly better than it was with my series 4.
This was my experience as well. Massive difference with AOD off.
My AW3 got 2 days easily.
Sorry forgot to mention this is Series 4. I’ve had it a couple months.
The interesting thing I find is that the AOD cannot count to the 'Usage' element.
The other day I went 17 hours to get to 50% with AOD off, and the usage showed 5 hours. Today, AOD on, 11 hours to get to 50% and 4 hours 50 mins usage.
I have done same amount of exercise that I did in the previous 22 hours if you see what i mean so the usage is that not the AOD. SO clearly the different in the remaining % is down to the AOD?
The other day I went 17 hours to get to 50% with AOD off, and the usage showed 5 hours. Today, AOD on, 11 hours to get to 50% and 4 hours 50 mins usage.
I have done same amount of exercise that I did in the previous 22 hours if you see what i mean so the usage is that not the AOD. SO clearly the different in the remaining % is down to the AOD?
Had the same results as yesterday. After 12 hours with AOD on, noise on, raise to wake on and ~25 minutes of workout and ~20 minutes of phone calls I had 50% battery. I put it on the charger a little before I got in the shower and I had 92% when I took it off of the charger. I'm happy with those numbers.
First day with AW5. I started from 96% and after 12 hours there were 49% left. AOD off. 30min podcast over LTE during workout (without phone). 2min LTE talk. About 15-20 messages (in/out), 15-20 emails, couple of Siri commands and of course lots of % looking. Not bad for a first day. I have WOS6/IOS13.1
Now I'm ready to go sleep with my good old AW4/AutoSleep.
Now I'm ready to go sleep with my good old AW4/AutoSleep.
Still on the fence with mine. I have it on at night for sleep tracking and by 11:00 today it went down to 9%. My V3 seemed to last longer, but then I just had to re-set and re-pair it to my new phone yesterday. I have until Monday if I'm going to return it.
I‘m on day 4 with the 44mm S5 and it‘s still ~13%/hr.
I‘ll wait until the weekend - if it isn‘t better by then I‘m going to return that thing.
Already tried the factory reset - didn‘t change anything.
I‘ll wait until the weekend - if it isn‘t better by then I‘m going to return that thing.
Already tried the factory reset - didn‘t change anything.
One thing some may find useful (if you didn't already know):
I turned off the "screen wake on wrist raise" feature for my S5. I found that this "unlocks" the screen far too often and probably wastes battery life. I would randomly look down at my watch and there would be an email or social media notification open on my screen. I finally figured out it was because the watch was always sensing for the "wrist raise" feature and thus it would be unlocked and the notifications would come in and be open and visible.
I don't see a need for the screen to awaken on wrist raise because the S5 has the AOD. So if I actually need to use my watch and open an email or notification, I'm going to be tapping on the screen anyways. Plus I don't like things randomly being "open" on my watch. This drove me insane for the past few days so I wanted to share with everyone.
I turned off the "screen wake on wrist raise" feature for my S5. I found that this "unlocks" the screen far too often and probably wastes battery life. I would randomly look down at my watch and there would be an email or social media notification open on my screen. I finally figured out it was because the watch was always sensing for the "wrist raise" feature and thus it would be unlocked and the notifications would come in and be open and visible.
I don't see a need for the screen to awaken on wrist raise because the S5 has the AOD. So if I actually need to use my watch and open an email or notification, I'm going to be tapping on the screen anyways. Plus I don't like things randomly being "open" on my watch. This drove me insane for the past few days so I wanted to share with everyone.
Dropped from 62% to 49% in about 3 hours since got it..will see how it is on full charge tomorrow
Quick update while trying to diagnose this further (S5 44mm, watchOS 6.0 public release).
Yesterday with everything on, solar dial watch face, I was seeing about 7%/hour discharge at the 12 hour timepoint. I don't count the first hour, since that almost always stays near 100% for me. At 12-hours it was discharged 100 - (12-1)*7 = 23% remaining.
Today, 5th full day with the watch. Settings are: AOD off, music playlists all off, audiobooks off, background app update off. Siri watch face, which was the only one I used on my S3. Everything else is default on state (including env. noise on, raise-to-wake on, podcasts "Listen Now" and "Mirror iPhone", default brightness, etc). At 6-hour mark seeing about 2.8%/hour discharge (6-1)*2.8 = 86% remaining. It's been fairly consistent with this discharge rate, so at the 12-hour mark I'd expect 69% with these settings... that'd be around what my S3 got.
I'll turn AOD back on tomorrow or later today to see how much the discharge rate increases.
Yesterday with everything on, solar dial watch face, I was seeing about 7%/hour discharge at the 12 hour timepoint. I don't count the first hour, since that almost always stays near 100% for me. At 12-hours it was discharged 100 - (12-1)*7 = 23% remaining.
Today, 5th full day with the watch. Settings are: AOD off, music playlists all off, audiobooks off, background app update off. Siri watch face, which was the only one I used on my S3. Everything else is default on state (including env. noise on, raise-to-wake on, podcasts "Listen Now" and "Mirror iPhone", default brightness, etc). At 6-hour mark seeing about 2.8%/hour discharge (6-1)*2.8 = 86% remaining. It's been fairly consistent with this discharge rate, so at the 12-hour mark I'd expect 69% with these settings... that'd be around what my S3 got.
I'll turn AOD back on tomorrow or later today to see how much the discharge rate increases.
Update: Last night I installed beta 6.1 onto my watch and today - OMG the difference is night and day!!
Usage: 1 hour 43 minutes
Stand by: 8 hours 42 minutes
Battery: 70%
Usage vs standby is basically exactly the same between yesterday and today (I'm pretty consistent with my usage), and holy cow what a difference. Only thing I changed was updating to 6.1
Worth mentioning I have the noise app disabled but have had AOD on the whole time both yesterday and today.
Praying this is a long term solution and doesn't go back to being crap within a day or two.
I hope this is the case! I decided to take mine back, but maybe I will look at one later once things have been ironed out, or just wait till S6.
I start the day hopeful, get to lunchtime and think, Mmm things aren't so bad. But then by the time I get to the end of the day I'm in the 30% territory 'Again' even with things turned down.
I used to have a S2 and got two days no problem, wife had S1 and just about got 2 days.
Fast forward to today I've got an S5 and I got her an S4.
She is finishing a day at 65%+ and mine is well as I said in the 30-40%. If you aren't bothered about AOD, I would personally wait to see if AWOS6.1 fixes things otherwise just get an S4 and save some pennies.
I used to have a S2 and got two days no problem, wife had S1 and just about got 2 days.
Fast forward to today I've got an S5 and I got her an S4.
She is finishing a day at 65%+ and mine is well as I said in the 30-40%. If you aren't bothered about AOD, I would personally wait to see if AWOS6.1 fixes things otherwise just get an S4 and save some pennies.
I upgraded from an AW4 to an AW5. I’ve had identical usage today compared to yesterday battery level is currently 32% higher right now than where it was yesterday at this time. The only difference... I turned AOD off when I put it on the charger last night. I’m so bummed that I already gave my AW4 to a family member otherwise I would just return the AW5 and save $800. If I have to turn AOD off to get a whole day of usage then i should have just stayed with the AW4. I don’t trust Apple anymore and will no longer just blindly upgrade Apple Watch.