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What complications do you always “need”?
- Thread starter The Cockney Rebel
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this. Though battery is not really a necessity on the Ultra and it's a "leftover" from previous AWs, plus, it is easy to see swiping up. But I guess I'm one too lazy and secondly can't think of a replacement complication. maybe that will change with watchOS 10
I really don't understand why everyone seems to use one of their complications for battery level. In almost five years of Apple Watch ownership, not once have I felt the need or desire to check the battery level!
YOU haven't felt that need, and that is fine.
if you look through this subform, every new watchOS release has a thread titles "battery drain with new OS ...", lots of posts where people actually do not get a full day's of battery life, and lastly, so many threads, every year, for the next AW has "better battery life" as the #1 request. So there is that.
FWIW, in nearly 8 years of using an AW I have never had an AW shut down on me due to drained battery, a few times I came down to mid single digits at the end of the day. With Ultra and my usage pattern, I really don't need the battery complication but there is no other complication that I want to see instead ...
+1 for not needing battery level as a complication. I have it at the top of my control center, and I can check it with a quick swipe up. I understand people wanting to keep an eye on it if they are worried about it lasting the day, but for me, the only watch that had that problem was the original S0 watch. All other watches last a full day with an hour or two to spare.
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I'm surprised to see so many people say "Battery" 🧐 I haven't the slightest bit of a care what my battery level is during the day. I can count on one finger the number of times the watch died before I went to sleep (that day, I had insomnia and woke up at 3AM so it had a VERY long day).
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I'm surprised to see so many people say "Battery" 🧐 I haven't the slightest bit of a care what my battery level is during the day. I can count on one finger the number of times the watch died before I went to sleep (that day, I had insomnia and woke up at 3AM so it had a VERY long day).
So you buy a smart watch to... check the time?
Only date is a must have for me. I have an automation so I have a busier face during the workday (battery, date, schedule, heart rate) and then out of hours I have a simpler face with just a date complication. On occasion I will use a face without even date. I switch faces automatically, and then sometimes I just change it up for fun.
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Battery, if you do outdoors and are not always by a charger at night
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But what are you going to do if your battery gets low? The watch warns you to charge before bed if it’s low anyway. It warns if it’s low anyway I think. So why is having a complication saying 75% full helpful? I get it on a phone as it takes up such little screen estate but not on a watch.
Besides, what are people using their watches for that drains the battery? Mine is just under half full after a full day of use, including 45 minutes of exercise tracking each day.
Not who you wrote to but I didn’t even buy mine for that. I bought it for the health monitoring tech. Being able to see the time and the date is just a nice bonus.
I have different faces for different focus setup with different complications that are frequently used during my working hours, personal time and sleep.
Work focus -
- battery
- temperature
- timer
- activity
- date
- 3 different timezones
Personal focus -
Battery
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Temperature
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One extra timezone
Sleep focus -
Date
Battery
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Work focus -
- battery
- temperature
- timer
- activity
- date
- 3 different timezones
Personal focus -
Battery
Date
Activity
Temperature
Timer
One extra timezone
Sleep focus -
Date
Battery
Weather
The ones I always use are:
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A way to start workouts — I used to just have the workouts complication, but now I have a shortcut that can start a workout, log weight, log water, and log coffee (this one, for anyone interested)
I used to have a weather complication but I found it used to drain my battery excessively.
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A way to start workouts — I used to just have the workouts complication, but now I have a shortcut that can start a workout, log weight, log water, and log coffee (this one, for anyone interested)
I used to have a weather complication but I found it used to drain my battery excessively.
Fitness only.
AW U means I no longer even think about the battery between charges.
AW U means I no longer even think about the battery between charges.
I’m guessing all the people with battery complications are using older watches, whereas those who don’t use this complication replace their watches more frequently.
I use a series 4 watch and find that the battery has degraded sufficiently that I’m planning to upgrade when the new watches are released.
I use a series 4 watch and find that the battery has degraded sufficiently that I’m planning to upgrade when the new watches are released.
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Time - yes the digital time as I am too dumb to read the analog clock without numbers on a quick glance
For the rare occasions that I work out, I have another health related watch face with its own dedicated complications
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Time - yes the digital time as I am too dumb to read the analog clock without numbers on a quick glance
For the rare occasions that I work out, I have another health related watch face with its own dedicated complications
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What's that watch face? How did you get the rainbow color circles?