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Terrible battery life
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For me it's being consistent where I can get 12 hours with about 50% left with AOD, noise, and raise to wake all on. I tend to prefer the watch faces with a lot of black in the background. I always have a workout under 30 minutes, a phone call or two, and checking heartbeat a few times a day.
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I'm not panicking by any means as I am confident they will get this worked out, but just a bummer to see these battery issues. I am now down to 81%. 1 hour of usage, 4 hours and 14 minutes of standby.
Updated to 6.1 on my 5 after battery concerned me and its night and day better. Back to S4 levels but with nothing disabled. AOD, cellular, raise to wake.
Mine off charge at 7.30am and at 16.00 it’s at 61%
So similar to yesterday. Going gym at 6pm after work so wonder how much it drains then
Yesterday I was at 75% at 11:50am, having come off charger at 5:45am.
Changed, ran outdoors for 45 minutes, cleaned up, and then battery was at 48%.
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That's encouraging. Perhaps we'll see something released this week.
I'll make my decision based on what's in hand though.
Exactly. If I have to turn off AOD to regain the battery life I'm used to with my S4, then what exactly is the point of dropping the $$$ on an upgrade? Compass and added storage are nice, but not worth the $$$.
Particularly since we know the S4 cpu performance won't ever be any worse than the S5's.
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He thinks the AOD is about 30% a day, from my usage it seems more like 10% a day worse than the Series 4, I keep everything on.
Just my quick opinion, but it would seem to me, that if I have to disable features that are advertised for the watch, just to get the advertised battery life, or if I have to disable features that I use just to make it through the day, I would probably have to re-think my obsession with the watch. I am wondering just how much I must disable my wonderful "do everything" watch to get it to last the day..
The other day, I took a 30 minute outside walk, and the watch, (Series 4, 44mm) dropped 17%. I used GPS, and internal HR, nothing else, no streaming, no notifications, etc. In fact, the phone was in Airplane mode.
The other day, I took a 30 minute outside walk, and the watch, (Series 4, 44mm) dropped 17%. I used GPS, and internal HR, nothing else, no streaming, no notifications, etc. In fact, the phone was in Airplane mode.
In post #32 above I posted Apple's usage during testing to derive the 18 hour battery life claim.
They do not mention AOD, which I would think they would do given it is a new hardware feature involving the screen. As such, I presume it was DISABLED during their use.
So, in their keynote when they tout the AOD feature and later say "and still all day, 18 hour battery life" to thunderous applause, they are being intentionally misleading.
STILL, my S5, when set just as my two previous S4s were (disabling new features) gets BETTER battery life throughout the day than my S4s did. I like the option to enable AOD or noise monitoring when I want, but I will keep them off generally and enjoy the new watch. I'm keeping my S5.
They do not mention AOD, which I would think they would do given it is a new hardware feature involving the screen. As such, I presume it was DISABLED during their use.
So, in their keynote when they tout the AOD feature and later say "and still all day, 18 hour battery life" to thunderous applause, they are being intentionally misleading.
STILL, my S5, when set just as my two previous S4s were (disabling new features) gets BETTER battery life throughout the day than my S4s did. I like the option to enable AOD or noise monitoring when I want, but I will keep them off generally and enjoy the new watch. I'm keeping my S5.
Weird.
Today I stopped stressing about the battery and left AOD on and just used it as normal. So far 13 hrs standby and still 70% battery.
AW5 44mm LTE.
Today I stopped stressing about the battery and left AOD on and just used it as normal. So far 13 hrs standby and still 70% battery.
AW5 44mm LTE.
From their website:
Always-On Retina Display
Apple Watch Series 5 features an innovative new display that allows the time and important information to remain visible at all times. Each watch face has been carefully optimized for the new display and to preserve battery life, the screen intelligently dims when a user’s wrist is down and returns to full brightness with a raise or a tap. Several advanced technologies work together to deliver this new feature, including the industry’s only low-temperature polysilicon and oxide display (LTPO), ultra-low power display driver, efficient power management integrated circuit and new ambient light sensor. This combination of hardware innovation and incredible software design allows Apple Watch Series 5 to offer all-day 18-hour battery life.
They're not trying to mislead anyone. It's quite clear that they're factoring in the AOD into their testing.
I got it off their Apple Watch BATTERY page, and no mention of AOD here:
Apple Watch - Battery
Find out more about the battery life of Apple Watch. Learn about charge time, power reserve, and other battery metrics, too.
www.apple.com
And they further disclaim that actual battery life will vary with configuration.....
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My opinion remains they might "offer" all day 18 hour battery life, but they did not ACHIEVE it by USING AOD during their 18 hour testing, which they are otherwise very detailed about.
I took mine off the charger yesterday at 7 am. I wore it to bed in theater mode and this am at 7am I was at 20 percent. Now that I've charged it a few times and am not playing with it excessively because its new I can get 24 hours out of it. Still not as long as my 4 but that's the trade off of the AOD. Remember it takes a few charge cycles to get the battery at optimum and because these are new we are playing with them a lot more at first.
My series 5 battery seems to burn a lot quicker only when using the Solar Dial watch face. Using other watch faces with the noise complication drains a lot less battery.
Anecdotal but using the Solar Dial for 1 hour this morning drained it from 100% - 94%. I switched to Merdian for the next hour and now I'm at 91%.
Anecdotal but using the Solar Dial for 1 hour this morning drained it from 100% - 94%. I switched to Merdian for the next hour and now I'm at 91%.
I work 13 hour shifts and I am on my feet going up and down stairs the whole time, and my battery will last two days before I would have to charge on my watch 4. Since upgrading to watchOS 6 I have to charge daily while changing nothing in my day-to-day activities
So tonight Apple have just released iOS13.1.1 to fix battery drain issues for the phone and iPad. So where's the fix for WatchOS6
So the implication is you think the substantially lower battery life on the S5 vs S4 is normal and to be expected.
What do you say to those stating they've seen a substantial improvement with 6.1 beta?
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Maybe this is a silly question but do some faces and complications drain the battery faster?
I've gone from a series 3 where I used the Activity Analogue face with just four complications (date, workout, dark sky and pedometer) to the Infograph face with eight complications (dark sky, workout, activity, sunrise/sunset, accuweather (real feel), date, battery and wind).
I'm not sure if I get the claimed eighteen hours as I charge when I get up and before I go to bed because I wear the watch at night but it does seem to drain quicker than I'd expect.
I've gone from a series 3 where I used the Activity Analogue face with just four complications (date, workout, dark sky and pedometer) to the Infograph face with eight complications (dark sky, workout, activity, sunrise/sunset, accuweather (real feel), date, battery and wind).
I'm not sure if I get the claimed eighteen hours as I charge when I get up and before I go to bed because I wear the watch at night but it does seem to drain quicker than I'd expect.
the fix might be in there.One of the ios13 betas destroyed the watch battery life...later fixed in a further update. Had nothing to do with watech os