59% after 14 hours, not bad at all.
Edit - and I am never someone who gets good battery life from devices.
Edit - and I am never someone who gets good battery life from devices.
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Watch Battery Life 18 Hours, Do you Agree?
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Ouch, so the fitness basically kills the battery from everything I've read
Appears that way so far. Granted I did 3 pretty intense 45 minutes workouts but I am active and mostly waited out the fitbits and fuel bands just for this watch. I'm till pretty happy with it so far based on it accuracy with distance and HR. When I look in the health app it looks like it is continuous HR monitoring...I get like 10-12 HR data points per minute for 45 minutes!?! I do like looking at how hard I worked out but that is an excessive amount. I wish there was a setting to change the frequency of the pulse checks to like every 2 minutes or 5 minutes. The only option I've seen in the menu is turning if off "calorie data will not be as accurate"
I'm a little worried since I will start training for a marathon soon and longer runs...
Have the 42mm SG. Just got it today. I've been playing with it all day and I'm at 65 percent with near nonstop use (from 900am to now, 1750). I'll be taking it off the charger at 2am during the week, and probably back on the charger around 1630 so I'm thinking I'll get good use out of it. Saw this article and employing some of the tips has helped. I don't use all of them.
The heart rate readings are way overkill and probably eat a nice chunk of battery
Pulled off the charger at 4:00am. Wore all day at work and I work with my hands so the face was lighting up a lot (several times a minute at times). Demoed the watch to a couple of people. Got notifications all day long. Sent a couple of texts. Took a 5 minute phone call. Went for a 45min run with fitness app. It's 9:45 and I'm at 27%. I'd say that I won't really worry about battery life. Bought an extra charger for the car but I don't know if I'll ever use it now. Don't mind charging at night.
42mm Sport with default settings. Mirroring all my iPhone alerts.
42mm Sport with default settings. Mirroring all my iPhone alerts.
Got some photos for you all. My day included phone calls, messages, an hour long workout using the app, reminders, etc. Not over yet, but I've definitely got enough to last another hour until bedtime. First one shows Watch usage, and notice at top right how much juice I still have on phone.
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Wow. I think this represents what I wanted in a response for the thread! Im glad lived up to and went above on battery life test!
Oh and,
return the charger... it seems like you have already made up your mind
Took off charger at 4:50 AM -- used for texts, mail, activity tracker, and constant checking of time and changing of watch faces -- have 27% left at 10:00 PM.
2 hrs, 22 mins of usage, 13 hrs, 36 mins of standby with 46% left. Unplugged at 6:30 this morning, currently 8:15 PM, about 2 hours till I plug it back in. I'd say it will be at the high 30s or low 40s by the end of the night.
EDIT: It's at 30% now, been using it for the last 2 hours
EDIT: It's at 30% now, been using it for the last 2 hours
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ha that's a nice bell curve going on there. You can easily average that out and get an exact number.
My battery life seems to have gotten better...
Stats for today:
46% currently remaining
Standby: 12 hours, 23 minutes
Usage: 3 hours, 28 minutes.
Again I feel like I've used it heavily. I've sent numerous text, Answered a phone call or two, used the work out app for 30 minutes, checked my HR numerous times as well as the activity app... and the list goes on.
Stats for today:
46% currently remaining
Standby: 12 hours, 23 minutes
Usage: 3 hours, 28 minutes.
Again I feel like I've used it heavily. I've sent numerous text, Answered a phone call or two, used the work out app for 30 minutes, checked my HR numerous times as well as the activity app... and the list goes on.
Today was my first typical day with the Watch. Took it off the charger at 8:25am, dead at 10:53pm. Disappointed to say the least.
My day included 28 minutes worth of outdoor cycling, 49 minutes of "other" workout, a handful of texts and emails, a little bit of watch face customization, a couple timers and alarms, paused the audio on the Apple TV a few times, launched Transit App and Instagram each once. 38mm model.
I've removed all 3rd party apps and am hoping for better results tomorrow.
My day included 28 minutes worth of outdoor cycling, 49 minutes of "other" workout, a handful of texts and emails, a little bit of watch face customization, a couple timers and alarms, paused the audio on the Apple TV a few times, launched Transit App and Instagram each once. 38mm model.
I've removed all 3rd party apps and am hoping for better results tomorrow.
Interesting, it seems like from the post from this thread expressed that activity sensors are the culprit to drainage of battery... Do you think if you where not to do your 28 minutes of cycling and 49 minutes of workout your battery would have a better outcome?
Yes, the 49-minute "other" workout consumed 20% of the battery all to itself if I recall correctly. But opting out of using the Watch for one of its tent pole features isn't really a solution, and I don't think my watch would have made it to 18 hours even if it had that extra 20% juice.
My watch is nearly identical to this stat and seems pretty accurate to me.
Current: 44%
Standby: 12 Hours, 49 Minutes
Usage: 3 Hours, 47 Minutes
- Got about 40-50 push notifications in total today while about half of that was text messaging(replied with dictation).
- (Don't know this matters or not) Showered in the morning and after work out with the watch on, while phone was playing music and was controlling music with the watch.. lol
- Was at gym working out for 1 hr 20 min and had the "Other" mode turned on for exercising(while playing
music off the watch through BT headphone NOT the phone)
Battery life has been fantastic so far. Never had any problem since day one. When I first got the watch on Friday, I did the initial setup and never charged my watch on the first day (started around ~75% after setup at 1pm). Would never complain for a better battery life, but I am satisfied as of right now because I do charge all my devices daily.
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Makes me wonder what some of those reviewers were doing. I've complained about the exercise app's battery usage, but I've only had it go into power reserve mode once. And that was on launch day, without charging it out of the box.
The battery easily lasts all day!
The battery easily lasts all day!
Went from 100% to 94% on my 13:24-minute "outdoor cycle" commute this morning. So far, not off to a good start for the day in regards to battery life.
Hi,
I did start a thread on Airwatch, but it's disappearing fast down the page so I thought I'd stick it here as well.
Just wondering if there are any others that use Airwatch as part of their corporate mail/calendar on their iPhone, that are having issues with the Watch performance and battery life.
Both myself and my friend both work for the same company (One of the big Oil ones) received our watches on the 24th.
We both had major issues with performance and notifications not coming though, to the point of nearly sending the watches back.
It was only though not seeing any major problems being reported like ours that we deduced it was maybe Airwatch. We previously had issues with Airwatch on our phones with things like alternative keyboards etc being locked down.
We removed it late on Friday and by Friday evening everything was working perfectly, albeit I no longer had my work email or calendar on my phone.
As an experiment I reloaded Airwatch yesterday and immediately hit problems again with performance, crashes etc. Calendar would not even open.
Left both devices charging overnight and this morning put on the watch and by 2 hours I was down to 60% on both watch and phone with major lag.
Removed Airwatch again and now it's running perfectly with battery life as should be expected.
So it's definitely Airwatch and maybe in particular how it is setup in my company.
I'm now over the moon with my watch, and now have a better work life balance as I can only check my work mail when at my desk
I did start a thread on Airwatch, but it's disappearing fast down the page so I thought I'd stick it here as well.
Just wondering if there are any others that use Airwatch as part of their corporate mail/calendar on their iPhone, that are having issues with the Watch performance and battery life.
Both myself and my friend both work for the same company (One of the big Oil ones) received our watches on the 24th.
We both had major issues with performance and notifications not coming though, to the point of nearly sending the watches back.
It was only though not seeing any major problems being reported like ours that we deduced it was maybe Airwatch. We previously had issues with Airwatch on our phones with things like alternative keyboards etc being locked down.
We removed it late on Friday and by Friday evening everything was working perfectly, albeit I no longer had my work email or calendar on my phone.
As an experiment I reloaded Airwatch yesterday and immediately hit problems again with performance, crashes etc. Calendar would not even open.
Left both devices charging overnight and this morning put on the watch and by 2 hours I was down to 60% on both watch and phone with major lag.
Removed Airwatch again and now it's running perfectly with battery life as should be expected.
So it's definitely Airwatch and maybe in particular how it is setup in my company.
I'm now over the moon with my watch, and now have a better work life balance as I can only check my work mail when at my desk