Tips to preserve battery life

[Kyle76]

New to S5, I’m looking for tips to save battery life. It was never a problem with my S2, but now I find I’m down to 25% at the end of the day when I used to rarely go below 60%. Is there a way to gauge which functions are burning the most energy?

 

[kmichalec]

Try turning of the Always On Display. Curious to see if that makes a difference for you.

 

[axantas]

Continually measuring noise level is said to eat up the battery.

 

[zehcnassurfero]

But did you buy yesterday? In first days usually the battery life is lower because the system is working and for first time opening all. In a week you are going to notice a better battery life

 

[Kyle76]

But did you buy yesterday? In first days usually the battery life is lower because the system is working and for first time opening all. In a week you are going to notice a better battery life

I picked it up Saturday — three days ago.

 

[deep1]

Best battery saving tips which really worked for me was to Turn off start and end workout reminder. Battery improved vastly.

 

[Aspasia]

Good article: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-watch-more-battery-life/

A black watch face consumes less power. I switch from Infograph Modular to California when I don't need to track my heart rate or work out. That saves battery life.

 

[nickdalzell1]

I've reduced the number of running apps in the dock to 6-7 (watch S5 starts acting 'goofy' after 8--where Siri and any data-enabled app fails to work until a reboot) and keep the number of watch faces down to like 3 vs 10. Believe it or not, any watch face heavy with complications or running app in the dock is active, and updating even when not selected/in the foreground.

That's netted me the same battery life I got from my Series 3, which is roughly 1.5 to 2 days depending on the amount of calls/text I make.

Not sure if it helps, but having a single-color watch face should use less pixels than multi-color. Galaxy Watches used to do black and white AOD for that reason.

 

[Lyn2012]

I have ten apps in the dock and about the same number of watch faces (with lots of complications) on my S5, no goofy behaviour here, with Siri or anything else. I probably don’t get 2 days battery, but I just put it on the charger when I’ve time to top it up, usually morning and evening as I sleep track too.

 

[Momof2.1107]

I’ve been watching the battery on my S4. From 10pm-6:20am I go from 100% to 84%. All I do is sleep track at night. I close all running apps, and my watch mirrors my phone with do not disturb enabled. I also have it turned off where the time would display every time my watch is raised. I turned off all notifications except for texts, phone calls and heart rate notifications if it reach 100 bpm. I haven’t downloaded any new apps to my watch in 8 months. I have them on my phone so I don’t need them on my watch also. By the time I get home from work, I’m down to 30-40%.

 

[nickdalzell1]

I have ten apps in the dock and about the same number of watch faces (with lots of complications) on my S5, no goofy behaviour here, with Siri or anything else. I probably don’t get 2 days battery, but I just put it on the charger when I’ve time to top it up, usually morning and evening as I sleep track too.

Mine starts losing apps in the dock and certain background services crash if I go past 7. Siri eventually acts like there's no connection to the iPhone or Wifi and Dictation fails until a reboot once that occurs. Either WatchOS 6.1.1 failed somewhere or my particular S5 has a big memory leak/RAM management issue. It won't show more than 8 apps in the dock, eventually it just shows 6 or 4 like a few dropped off/crashed. My S3 running the same OS, however, can manage 10. Keep in mind mine is set to show recent, not favorites in the dock.

 

[ACE83]

Make sure you are on the latest watchOS. The first few builds of watchOS 6 were killing battery life on S5.

I start my day at 6AM and end around 1030 with a 30-45min tracked workout and AOD on - and end the day around 40-50%.

I don't even think about battery anymore

 

[nickdalzell1]

Battery life was never an issue for me on either my S3 or S5.

I wear my S5 to sleep too, I only charge it from 7 to 9PM each night. It's usually at 65-70% by then. That's after going to bed, sleep tracking with Autosleep, tracking activity the next day, along with up to a 45 minute workout, texting, some calls, AOD on, notifications in general and some Siri (when she works)

 

[AL2TEACH]

call me eh crazy but I think it's grand that the battery life is as good as it is seeing what it powers. I can get about 20 hours of (my) normal usage. I will have test this now, lol.

 

[ianrip]

if you're doing a long haul,or really trying to save, put Cinema mode on, Always on display off, noise listening feature off, workout reminders off

 

[sjinsjca]

I get about 36-40 hours off a full charge of my Series 5 Cellular. I wear it all day and to sleep, swapping it on the charger for my trusty Series 0 for an hour or so in the mornings when I have breakfast, shower, etc.

Usually, when I put it on the charger on arising, it has 40% or so left.

During the day I use it for alerts, audio play through Bluetooth (both of on-Watch content where the Watch itself streams, and as a control for content playing on my iPhone), and pretty frequently for Siri. I have a sleep tracker app.

My settings, for those items that would appear to have battery impact:

Background app refresh: mostly on
Wake screen on wrist raise: on
Auto-launch Audio Apps: off
Wake for: 15 seconds
Workout power saving mode: off
Display brightness: slider is mid-way
Listen for "Hey Siri": off
Raise to speak: off
Haptic alerts: On, Prominent
Fall detection: On
Start Workout Reminder: On
End Workout Reminder: On
Detect Gym Equipment: On

During the day: Always-on Display is on
When sleeping: Always-on Display is switched off via Theater Mode, and Do Not Disturb is turned on

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iCatcher
ECG
Messages
Timer
Battery Grapher
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