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Terrible battery life
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Mine has got much better. S5 LTE.6.0.1 as much that i turned back on RTW and always had AOD on. No noise or app refresh on tho. I do about a 2 hour workout while listening to music streaming and locally on watch 6 days a week. Also play sports so LOTS of wrist raises and usage. i take it off charger in morning around 9am and wear it all day and night (for sleep tracking) and put it back on charger at 7/8am and it has not died since the first week i have had it.The first week it would die before dinner. I did unpair and repair so maybe that helped it. hoping 6.1 will help even more but so far it is getting the 18 hours of heavier than most use or sometimes more.
I got my AW5 from Sprint 3 days back. Ran with OS 6 for two days and saw not that great battery life, it lasted a full day 8AM to 10PM including a 3 mile run with music streaming to bluetooth headphones. Yesterday I upgraded to OS 6.0.1 and after I got it charged it lasted 12 hours of standby and 3 hours of active use and still had 50% left at midnight. That is pretty good in my view. Big difference from 6 to 6.0.1 if 6.1 improves it even more I will be real happy. Came from an AW 2 so speed is fantastic and the improved screen as well, Love AOD and have Raise on but no noise or app refresh in background. Mine is the Nike version although I doubt that has any impact.
I've been getting the 5% hourly drain on my watch with barely any app usage (even though my Usage time is showing hours...) AOD on, RTW on, Noise Monitoring on. I turned off AOD to see if that made a difference and I am STILL getting around 5% hourly drain. Makes absolutely no sense. I am holding off to see if 6.1 improves things and if it doesn't I might bring it in for Apple to take a look.
I do notice my Diagnostic logs always have entries. A few jetsam events now (in the past there were tons of them) but i did turn off background refresh for most of the apps and I am using infograph face with Apple complications. If I did what Apple did when testing the battery life my watch would be dead mid-day.
I do notice my Diagnostic logs always have entries. A few jetsam events now (in the past there were tons of them) but i did turn off background refresh for most of the apps and I am using infograph face with Apple complications. If I did what Apple did when testing the battery life my watch would be dead mid-day.
I found a couple of things helped me. Turned off background refresh on Podcasts and Music and also uninstalled noise app. I am on 6.1 beta, but after that (I have AOD on), I am averaging around 1-1.5% an hour and only 5% an hour if I workout for that hour
Curious did you do those things AFTER going to the 6.1 beta or did they help things while still on 6.0? Did just moving to 6.1 beta also lower the drain to 1-1.5% without making those changes?
After. Though in fairness had great battery on B1 & B2, awful (really terrible) on B3 and really great on B4 - holding off for a bit on B5 as the watch is perfect atm.
36 hrs of use , more than enough. In the beginning was great if i could get to 12hrs of use. If anyone has a bad battery life just do unpair/pair and will get much much better.
What does turning off background refresh on these do? Does it prevent podcasts from being synced with other devices? Or other issues that could arise form turning this off?
Not really too sure. My theory is though if I am going to be without my phone, I will stream the podcast or music over LTE, so why have it always checking and syncing?
I'm pretty sure the watch only syncs music & podcasts when it's sitting on the charger.
How to sync music and podcasts to Apple Watch from iPhone - 9to5Mac
This step by step guide covers how to sync music and podcasts to Apple Watch with iPhone no matter if you have an LTE enabled Apple Watch or not.
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I'm pretty sure the watch only syncs music & podcasts when it's sitting on the charger.
How to sync music and podcasts to Apple Watch from iPhone - 9to5Mac
This step by step guide covers how to sync music and podcasts to Apple Watch with iPhone no matter if you have an LTE enabled Apple Watch or not.
I'm pretty sure you are correct, but I have noticed that in between charges, my watch has synced Podcasts and Music, as reflected in the MB/GB usage in the Usage app.
I can't answer for Podcasts but i thought that music will only sync when on the charger so not sure what an app refresh for music will do
This is with the new watch so not sure what to think at the moment.
Will see what the Nike watch does instead when it arrives today
I even have raise to wake off
Its a new watch so it might be syncing and the battery will need a few days to optimise
This is my experience too. Pretty disappointing to be honest. I’m not having mad drain, but it’s highly unlikely that I’d make 18 hours comfortably. Not sure 6.1 will do much for me. I tried the reset trick, but that made no difference.
AW SS LTE 44
AOD & WTR on (what’s the point otherwise)
Background refresh off for most
About 30 mins daily workout. No streaming etc.
Certainly frustrating
The watch I’m getting today will be GPS only. Doubt it makes any different which model you have though