Watch Battery Life 18 Hours, Do you Agree?

[ventmore]

In fact I have. All they can do is test health of the battery itself, which their diagnostics report as fine. That of course doesn't tell the whole story, as you could have a healthy battery but still have excessive drain coming from a sensor or software bug - but they don't appear to have a way to pinpoint what exactly is using all that battery.

I'm returning my 38mm Watch tomorrow and will be waiting until July for a 42mm replacement to arrive...

I hope the next one works better for you mate

 

[Spendlove]

My battery easily lasts the day.

I went camping for the weekend and it managed from 6:45 am over 48 hours without a charge. I would estimate 50 hours and it still was not flat.

Caveats... I was in a zone with a poor signal - GPS only so not many notifications.

 

[Dumbinho]

Had my watch since Monday. And thought the first few days battery would not last all day because I would be playing with it all day.
But to my surprise. The lowest I have ever seen is 47% at the end of the day.
And I wake up at 5:30am go to bed at 12am.

 

[larryinfl]

As someone who has owned two Samsung smartwatches, I am looking at this device more of a notification item. After I have owned a smartwatch for a while the novelty wore off and you settle into 'normal' use. That being said I use my watch from 8 am until around 8 or 9 PM. I have been having 50-60% battery life left on average.

My BY-FAR favorite thing about my ML SS watch is the quality. The Samsungs I had were plastic and cheap. It's nice to have smartwatch of this quality.

 

[baller1308]

Going on 29 hours now and at 39%.

 

[spinboy]

Day three of possession; today after 8 hours so far I'm at 78%. That includes fiddlin' 'round time.

 

[nic.goodman]

I haven't really had any battery issues with mine, for example, I charged mine Tuesday night to 96%, went to sleep with it on (I use mine as a nice "silent" alarm) and made it through all day Wednesday, went to sleep with it at 17% and woke up this morning with it right at 10%. Didn't end up charging it till 11am today so I got about 36 hours of usage. Mind you this is with my screen at the brightest setting and I use siri and phone call options pretty frequently. I can't really imagine what you're doing with it to get 18 or under...

 

[Knowimagination]

In the last 4 days I have charged the watch once.

Here are the stats from my last charge.

 

[Gadgetguy21]

Been averaging 30hrs....started messing around with the settings to conserve battery......got 40hrs out of it. Still was able to use most of the functions. 42mm.
Wouldn't do this on a daily basis though. I'm happy with the 30hrs as it suits my needs.

 

[JonMPLS]

Day 1. As you can guess, almost constant use since it was the first day, including playing around with Maps for directions. After 15 hours, put it back on the charger at 31%!

 

[ventmore]

After unpairing/repairing my watch, and then doing a full discharge/recharge, the battery now seems to be working very well.

Standby: 35hrs (11hrs on my wrist, and the rest idling on my desk)
Usage: 3hrs 50mins
26% left

 

[Tecban]

38mm
Day 3

Usage 3 hrs 14 mins (including a 35 minute run)
Standby 14 hrs 34 mins

16% Remaining

This is comparable to two days ago, with another 35 minute run plus one hour of walking/lawn mowing left me with 6% after about 15 hours total standby time.

 

[ataq]

Day 2 fully charged

Just woke up and did a 6 mins phone call and the battery deopped to 93%. Yesterday i charged twice to about 60% because the battery was getring ver low very fast. I test two more days, otherwise apple care!

 

[Esoom]

I'm really impressed, Apple did their homework on battery life. It's rare I have less than 40% when I put it on the charger.

 

[dannyyankou]

Took it off the charger at 7:30 and it's still at 97%. Very happy.

 

[rritterson]

I'd love to know how anyone can finish the day with 90% left. I took my watch off charge at 5am, then put it on my desk and went to work. When I came back home at 11am, it was sitting at 91%.

I'm a cat. I sleep 20 hours a day so my days are only 4 hours long.

 

[chris-jenkins]

Using the Apple Watch sport, get a few texts and other notifications every hour or so. Find skype extremely draining on the battery so have subsequently turned off the notifications on that.

Otherwise battery is quite good. I tend to put it into power reserve at the end of the day before going sleep so this helps me get at least 2 days use from it.

 

[HippieMagic]

7am-3am pretty consistent use during ROTR and it was around 35% at the end of the day. It really proved its worth there. I never would have been able to hear or feel my phone in that situation but it alerted me well. Also SS ML survived a mosh pit no scratches.

 

[Goodebar]

dead w/o much activity

Got the 38mm at 7pm; charged all night. Next day did nothing more than looked at time once in a while and by 6pm it was down to 10 percent. Not impressed with battery life. My Peble usually lasts 5 days.

 

[AJsAWiz]

Got the 38mm at 7pm; charged all night. Next day did nothing more than looked at time once in a while and by 6pm it was down to 10 percent. Not impressed with battery life. My Peble usually lasts 5 days.

Sounds like there is a problem with your Watch. I've had mine over a week and always have at least 50% before charging it at night. I use it from about 7am to 11 pm or midnight (sometimes later).

 

[dannyyankou]

14.5 hours standby and it's still at 31%. If my math is correct, that's just over 20 hours when power reserve goes on.

 

[Robert M.]

10:23 PM and my battery is still at 57%! Yikes, I did turn it off for two hours during Mad Max: Fury Road, but this is still crazy good. Usage says I've had it in standby for 13 hours, used for 2.

 

[johny5]

First day was terrible....4hr 26 usage with 9hr 48 standby and it switched to power save mode.
I don't even seem to have been using it for that long so I'm guessing a stuck app or something.
Since then, I removed the buggy Skype app (didn't seem to work as it should, not updating messages).
Left everything else as standard and today I got 3hrs 6 usage with 11hr 4 standby and I still have 41% battery left.
Much better.

 

[whatos]

At work several of my friends with Apple Watches are experiencing truly excellent battery life. In some cases it's so good it's not an issue at all. An example of what Apple is capable of when they do their best work.

 

[Zune55]

Guys make sure your background apps are not on like the timer or stop watch. One day I started the stop watch and forget to turn it off and it was running for many hours.