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At what percent does your Watch have at the end of the day?

  • 90% At End Of Day

    Votes: 7 0.6%
  • 80% At End Of Day

    Votes: 7 0.6%
  • 70% At End Of Day

    Votes: 31 2.8%
  • 60% At End Of Day

    Votes: 94 8.3%
  • 50% At End Of Day

    Votes: 178 15.8%
  • 40% At End Of Day

    Votes: 260 23.1%
  • 30% At End Of Day

    Votes: 251 22.3%
  • 20% At End Of Day

    Votes: 149 13.2%
  • 10% At End Of Day

    Votes: 62 5.5%
  • 5% At End Of Day

    Votes: 27 2.4%
  • Dead At End Of Day

    Votes: 60 5.3%

  • Total voters
    1,126
Here's a bit more info..

I'm paired with a 6+ 128GB

I reported earlier that the apple tech told me to let the battery die and that would re-calibrate the battery.

So I have been letting it go, here is an interesting thing...

The battery continued to drain at 10% per hour until I hit 28% left, at which point (still wearing the watch) I ran out doing errands and 5 hours later, I am at 11% which is a 3.5% burn rate!

I also noticed that during this time, since wiping the watch, rebooting the phone, and re-pairing, the heart rate monitor appears to NOT be measuring every 10 mins like it is supposed to.... I am wondering if the heart rate monitor has been the culprit? Although I am sure everyone else with good battery life has the heart rate monitor constantly monitoring...

Just some more info for those with the same issue.

I will report back tomorrow after the watch has died and brought back to life.
Funny you mention the heart rate monitor, I turned mines off yesterday, and my battery life is SO much better.
 
My watch typically goes down to about 40% on days when I do not use the Workout App. I could let it run down to 10% and charge it, but that would require me lugging around my charge cable or buying an extra one to keep at work, which I do not really want to do.

Since it charges so quickly I simply put it on the charger about one-hour before I leave in the morning, so it charges while I get ready for my workday. It works nicely since I can wear it to bed, use it as an alarm, and that way I do not keep it on the charger for 8 hours each night while I sleep, and weaken the overall battery in the long run.
 
This whole thing is really interesting. Mine did the same. After 9 hours I'm at 77% with pretty normal usage.

My brother explained it this way based on what he's learned about these types of batteries: The software isn't fine tuned to the battery when you first begin using it, so while it is registering 100% (which would tell the watch to stop accepting a charge) it isn't at 100%. The rate drops based on the total charge the watch actually has (let's say that's 30% each percent of possible drop would register as 3% drop in battery life). By the second or third charge the watch finally actually charges to 100% at it begins to read correctly.

Not sure if that's true or not, but it seems to make sense based on what many of us have experienced.
 
my battery was HORRIBLE the first day but it's been better each day since. First of all, I'm not playing with all the settings which runs it down. Second of all I think it does a LOT better if you let it charge overnight instead of simply until it says "100" which is really not 100.
 
Usage 1 hour, 41 minutes.
Standby 11 hours, 51 minute,
69% left at 9:36 pm EST
 
My little 38mm got me through 2 full days!
Yesterday from 7am to 11pm for 16 hours, turned it off over night, then today from 7am to 10pm for 15 hours. For a total of 31 hours! I am very impressed!
 

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My little 38mm got me through 2 full days!
Yesterday from 7am to 11pm for 16 hours, turned it off over night, then today from 7am to 10pm for 15 hours. For a total of 31 hours! I am very impressed!


what are you doing to get this type of battery life?


tips would be nice ;)
 
what are you doing to get this type of battery life?


tips would be nice ;)

Nothing special honestly.

I have hey Siri on, brightness at full, haptic at full and prominent haptic and also raise wrist to activate on. On average I get 30-40 notifications/texts per day however these last two days have been quieter and an occasional short phone call. However, no phone calls in this 2 day stretch were taken on the watch. I'm still on Watch OS 1.0 and the Heart Rate reads every 10 minutes. CNN is the only 3rd party app that I have. I do not have the battery % on any of my watch faces.
 
I have had my 38 sports with added Milanese loop since launch day and I just love it. I came from a Pebble steel which was brilliant but I like the apple watch so much more. My apple watch typically has about 30-40% each evening after about 16 hours of use with all things enabled (full brightness, wrist raise, hey Siri etc) and I get lots of notifications all day - but no HR measuring and no workout or phone calls on watch. One thing I did with my Pebble after a full day's use was to top up the battery each evening for about 30-60 minutes and then when it was at 100% I would put watch back on and wear it for the next 24 hours (including in bed - as my alarm - and in the shower as my music player). Do you think this would work with my apple watch?
 
I have a 38 mm one. I used it from noon til 3am and had over 30% left when I took it off. Easily gets through a day on a charge. Wish I could say the same about my phone. Wish my phone could get through 5 hours on a charge.
 
My Apple Watch has been very strange today. Currently at 8% battery left but usage showing 0 minutes. I've hardly used it today as been so busy at work so no idea why it has drained so quickly!
 

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I have a 38 mm one. I used it from noon til 3am and had over 30% left when I took it off. Easily gets through a day on a charge. Wish I could say the same about my phone. Wish my phone could get through 5 hours on a charge.

I noticed the same thing with my iPhone 5 before I upgraded...it seemed like the battery life just tanked a few updates into iOS 8. It was time for my upgrade anyway so I did it.
 
Typical day for me seems to be 16 hrs standby with 2-2.5 hrs usage which leaves me at around 60% remaining.

No settings disabled or compromised. Mix set of usage (glancing time, messages, notifications, answering a few calls, navigating, etc).

This is on the 38mm. Power reserve overnight can yield at worst two days of my usage (more if I have a 'light' day) so I'm more than satisfied.
 
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Off the charger from about 7:00am to 11:10pm. First full day with it so I've been using it a ton and showing it to everybody. I'm really impressed with the battery life! A lot better than my phone.... Lol
 
I'm a bit concerned.

1st full day today. Took it off the charger at 10am and it fully died at 11:30 tonight. Usage said 6hrs 13mins and Standby 13hrs 34mins which to me doesn't make sense since it was off the charger for 13.5hrs. Also usage seems high. There's no way I used it 6hrs when it was off the charger for only 13. Literally impossible. Any ideas???

I have a 42mm SG Sport.
 
I'm a bit concerned.

1st full day today. Took it off the charger at 10am and it fully died at 11:30 tonight. Usage said 6hrs 13mins and Standby 13hrs 34mins which to me doesn't make sense since it was off the charger for 13.5hrs. Also usage seems high. There's no way I used it 6hrs when it was off the charger for only 13. Literally impossible. Any ideas???

I have a 42mm SG Sport.
The standby time of 13.5 hours includes the 6 hours of usage. So the standby time seems to be correct.
 
The standby time of 13.5 hours includes the 6 hours of usage. So the standby time seems to be correct.

Ok gotcha. Still a little concerned. Maybe it's just first day oddities? I still can't see how it was used 6hrs today. I worked for half that time in which the watch was primarily not used except some raise to wrist glances.
 
Finished my 38mm two-day test using power reserve overnight between 10pm and 7am. In all, from 7am yesterday to 9pm today, I was left with 9%.

Didn't hold back on typical usage or activity tracking so good to know if I forget or cannot charge every night.
 
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Finished my 38mm two-day test using power reserve overnight between 10pm and 7am. In all, from 7am yesterday to 9pm today, I was left with 9%.

Didn't hold back on typical usage or activity tracking so good to know if I forget or cannot charge every night.

Wow that seems like a long life for one charge. I've been somewhere in the 20% range after about 14 hours pretty consistently on my 42mm. Maybe I'm just using it a lot!
 
Wow that seems like a long life for one charge. I've been somewhere in the 20% range after about 14 hours pretty consistently on my 42mm. Maybe I'm just using it a lot!

Probably - we've all got different lifestyles and usage patterns!

My usage tends to be around 2hrs 30 to 45 and 14hrs standby each day. I use it when I need it throughout the day and track 'outdoor walks' as I commute to the train station and office as well as at lunch.

Am going to test it out on a long cycle ride with Strava but not sure it can last 5-6 hrs.
 
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Seems to be leveling out for me to. What I've found pretty standard is in a charge from 100% to 10% (before PR mode wants to kick in) there's about 7-7.5hours of use time. Whether that occurs inside of a 12-18hr standby time or whether some people are able to spread that out over 2 days.

7 hours + of use time for a watch is a lot. No doubt about that. Directions, phone call & workout seem to be the biggest life killers since they run in the background for the time those apps are in use. Typically it's been getting me through a full day aside from the fact that everyone's been wanting a mini-demo everywhere I go haha
 
For those having battery problems I wonder if backing up, wiping and restoring your iPhone will help?

As I noted in my experience changing phones has made my watch battery life much better. But I wonder if this is because of the phone or because of restoring the phone?

Maybe some people can try and report back.
Has anyone who had battery problems on the watch fixed it by backing up the phone, resetting and restoring the phone?
 
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