Me too.
Exactly the same battery behavior with 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.1 beta (3/4/5)
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Terrible battery life
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Exactly the same battery behavior with 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.1 beta (3/4/5)
Nope. 6.0.1
Early on when I was concerned with things I spent three days with my AW4 on OS5 and specifically logged the battery & usage every few hours. The days varied - overall 3.69%/hr, 4.08%/hr, 3.12%/hr - avergaing 3.6%/hr across the day not counting workout.
Now that I'm not fussing with my S5 every five minutes and am in my normal usage pattern, I am seeing roughly the same. Friday 4.09% (33% after 16:22 usage 2:52 stdby), Saturday 3.03% (54% after 15:11/2:05), Sunday 3.88% (36% after 16:30/3:06), Monday 3.81% (32% after 17:52/2:57), Tuesday 3.67% not including an outdoor run that burned 24%, Wednesday 3.19%% (52% after 15:03), Thursday 3.45% not counting an outdoor run that burned 31%.
Just citing *my* experience. YMMV. Using name infograph modular face as I used on my S4. All the usual stuff is on, AOD, raise-to-wake, background app refresh (albeit turned off for a couple apps I never use), noise monitor off.
Woke up this morning and my S5 44 LTE with AOD and RTW on was dying at about 15% an hour with no usage on my part... Checked the diagnostic logs and saw a ton of these events which typically indicate low RAM. Anyone else with bad battery seeing the same thing? Are those with good battery seeing nothing in their logs?
Doing some research only these jetsam events have been linked to low memory in the past on iPhones so I assumed that would be the case this time. Unfortunately there isn’t a ton of info online but there is something definitely going on.
First full charge with new nike watch series 5
5 hours, 45 mins usage
13 hours, 30 mins standby
36% left but this is with no workout but least it’s better than I was getting before. May have been 20-25% if I did a normal workout
so at long as it lasts me all day til bed will settle for that
5 hours, 45 mins usage
13 hours, 30 mins standby
36% left but this is with no workout but least it’s better than I was getting before. May have been 20-25% if I did a normal workout
so at long as it lasts me all day til bed will settle for that
I may have stumbled upon a clue toward dealing with this battery nonsense.
I have a series 4 LTE and have been experiencing the awful battery performance since updating Watch OS. Tried all of the tings mentioned in these threads and then some, but nothing worked. Though I did notice performance seemed better when I was away from home - but being retired that isn't very often.
A couple of days ago my WiFi appeared to be getting sluggish (we have many devices using WiFi in my home), so I powered down the (cable) modem and router, and then booted them up (modem first, wait for comm to be established, then the router), and lo and behold my watch is now back to stellar battery performance. Did nothing to the watch - no reboot or anything. It just started having great performance on its own after the above power down/reboots.
For instance, right now it's near 8:30pm - I took the watch off the charger & put it on at 6am, so that's about 14 1/2 hours and my watch is at 69% battery (whereas I was having to recharge my watch late afternoon in order to make it to bedtime). I got similar performance yesterday.
It'd be interesting to see if this works for anyone else.
Note: it may make a difference if you power down/reboot just the router vs both the modem and router. I believe at some point i'd rebooted my router with no effect, however for some reason when both the modem and router were cycled it worked.
Worth a try?
I have a series 4 LTE and have been experiencing the awful battery performance since updating Watch OS. Tried all of the tings mentioned in these threads and then some, but nothing worked. Though I did notice performance seemed better when I was away from home - but being retired that isn't very often.
A couple of days ago my WiFi appeared to be getting sluggish (we have many devices using WiFi in my home), so I powered down the (cable) modem and router, and then booted them up (modem first, wait for comm to be established, then the router), and lo and behold my watch is now back to stellar battery performance. Did nothing to the watch - no reboot or anything. It just started having great performance on its own after the above power down/reboots.
For instance, right now it's near 8:30pm - I took the watch off the charger & put it on at 6am, so that's about 14 1/2 hours and my watch is at 69% battery (whereas I was having to recharge my watch late afternoon in order to make it to bedtime). I got similar performance yesterday.
It'd be interesting to see if this works for anyone else.
Note: it may make a difference if you power down/reboot just the router vs both the modem and router. I believe at some point i'd rebooted my router with no effect, however for some reason when both the modem and router were cycled it worked.
Worth a try?
Series 3 42mm doing VERY well in terms of battery life. Can make close to 3 days. Would have made it to 3 days on the dot but I plugged it in at 20%. Don’t feel comfortable going lower than that. I usually plug in above 40%. That one day wanted to test the waters. Daily usage the same... mainly light. Have been doing about an hour walking workout every day for the past 2 weeks and close to the same results, over 2 days. On 6.1 beta. Everything enabled by default minus background app refresh.
FWIW mine immediately after a re-pair was crap - it settled down after a daySame here. I thought I would unpair and repair mine last night and today after being on my wrist for 6 hours I am on 65% battery left. Much worse than before
I have the 44 series 5 and battery life is acceptable. Not as good as my previous series 3 before watchOS 6 but no problems getting through one day. My wife wanted the 40 series 5 because the new ones are larger and she thought the smaller one would just fit and look better. Well today she’s had enough, we’re going to the Apple Store to return it and get her a 44. I’ve read that the beta watchOS 6.1 improves battery life for many but we can’t wait, only one more week in the return window for her watch.
I returned my SS series 5 when it was a month since i bought it..apple are very good even when it’s outside it’s return window.
maybe it was because i was ordering the nike series 5 they let me do it i dunno....but was good of them to do so.
I own the Apple Watch Series 5 natural Titanium with cellular connectivity. Running the latest watchOS operating system and the latest iOS on my paired iPhone 11 Pro.
Today, I got up at 5.30 am and started using my Apple Watch, exactly 18 hours later at 11.30 pm I've put the watch back into its charging stand with only minimal battery remaining.
I had the always-on display activated, alternating between the Infograph watch face with eight complications and the new Solar watch face with four complications. I had activated Bluetooth, WiFi and cellular connectivity and the watch was seamlessly alternating between the three connections as needed. I certainly spent most of the day on the bluetooth connection with the iPhone in range, WiFi from time to time, when the iPhone was out of range at home, and certainly about an hour on cellular connectivity, when I was round and about without my iPhone. I had the noise meter activated all day. Background refresh for all apps was also activated. I logged three trainings today: 34 minutes of strength training / weight training, 27 minutes of outdoor walking and 30 minutes on the Crosstrainer. I logged 18.050 steps equalling 14 km distance and I closed all the rings more than once. I wrote one ECG. Notifications were activated for all apps. I received and sent several iMessages. Used voice dictation. Activated the timer several times throughout the day. Furthermore I used Siri several times and I used the watch for regular tasks like synching shopping lists and checking calendar events. I also used the Watch to control my HomePods.
Even though I would certainly love a watch that lasted several days, I am pretty satisfied, because I got the 18 hours that Apple promised with a pretty diverse usage. And since I am taking the Watch off during the night anyway, re-charging is not a particular problem for me.
Today I was trying to put the Watch a little bit though its paces. On many days I don't have cellular activated all of the time and I don't necessarily use the noise app constantly. Also on some days I log only one or two trainings. Then the Apple Watch gives me a battery life in the range of up to 24 hours with plenty charge remaining, when I put it back in its stand.
So from my point of view battery life is absolutely fine.
Today, I got up at 5.30 am and started using my Apple Watch, exactly 18 hours later at 11.30 pm I've put the watch back into its charging stand with only minimal battery remaining.
I had the always-on display activated, alternating between the Infograph watch face with eight complications and the new Solar watch face with four complications. I had activated Bluetooth, WiFi and cellular connectivity and the watch was seamlessly alternating between the three connections as needed. I certainly spent most of the day on the bluetooth connection with the iPhone in range, WiFi from time to time, when the iPhone was out of range at home, and certainly about an hour on cellular connectivity, when I was round and about without my iPhone. I had the noise meter activated all day. Background refresh for all apps was also activated. I logged three trainings today: 34 minutes of strength training / weight training, 27 minutes of outdoor walking and 30 minutes on the Crosstrainer. I logged 18.050 steps equalling 14 km distance and I closed all the rings more than once. I wrote one ECG. Notifications were activated for all apps. I received and sent several iMessages. Used voice dictation. Activated the timer several times throughout the day. Furthermore I used Siri several times and I used the watch for regular tasks like synching shopping lists and checking calendar events. I also used the Watch to control my HomePods.
Even though I would certainly love a watch that lasted several days, I am pretty satisfied, because I got the 18 hours that Apple promised with a pretty diverse usage. And since I am taking the Watch off during the night anyway, re-charging is not a particular problem for me.
Today I was trying to put the Watch a little bit though its paces. On many days I don't have cellular activated all of the time and I don't necessarily use the noise app constantly. Also on some days I log only one or two trainings. Then the Apple Watch gives me a battery life in the range of up to 24 hours with plenty charge remaining, when I put it back in its stand.
So from my point of view battery life is absolutely fine.
My S5 has gone to being really bad the last few days.
Off the charger for 2 hours and it’s already down to 85%. I barely did anything with it and it says usage is one hour.
I got like two notifications in that time and raised my wrist maybe 5 times. Something isn’t right.
A week or so ago I was getting much better battery, eg 3% an hour.
Off the charger for 2 hours and it’s already down to 85%. I barely did anything with it and it says usage is one hour.
I got like two notifications in that time and raised my wrist maybe 5 times. Something isn’t right.
A week or so ago I was getting much better battery, eg 3% an hour.
So after unpair and re-pair yesterday, restarted both AW and iPhone seeing a drop of 30% in the first 6 hours I was disappointed. Then I tweaked a few things by more or less turning off Siri (except pressing the crown) ,background refresh and noise already off. since then I am now at 27 hours (3 active hours) and 10% remaining. I highly recommend turning off all Siri except pushing the crown. I never use Siri anyway, we have a complicated relationship, she doesn’t understand me. 😁
Think my battery life issues seems to be fine now since getting the nike series 5...on about 5% left after 17 hours standby...this includes a 45 minute workout too. Hopefully it carries on. Off charge at 12pm and at 04;10am still not dead yet...big relief after the issues i had with my previous series 5 watch
I have Nike 44 and the battery is draining so fast but then I remember the watch face I’m using has Noise Detection complication so no wonder it’s going so fast. 😖
At least the noise level detection application running in the background does not impact power reserve that much for me. I am just running a test on that. Same scenario as yesterday (described above), but cellular data not activated. Noise level detection running in the background. I am not sure, how many trainings I will log today. Probably one less than yesterday. I will report back tonight. At the moment I am three hours and ten minutes into the usage day (started again at 05.30 am and now it is 08.39 am as I am writing this) and the battery is draining at a rate of approx. 4% per hour, which looks pretty normal.
Hi guys! I upgraded from a Series 3 42 mm to a Series 4 44 mm, already updated to 6.0.1 and my battery life is catastrophic. On the first day of wearing it, it consumed 10% per hour. I took it off the charger at 7AM and the battery was completly drained (=0%) at 5PM. No particular use. No calls. No workouts. NO NOTHING. Only 10 hours of battery life. The day after (at 8AM) I took both watches off the charger and left them at home in stand-by. When I came back from work (at 2PM), the battery percentages were: 94% on S3 and 57% on S4. I repeat: BOTH doing NOTHING but stand-by. See pic attached.
