What on Earth is the Watch doing while I’m sleeping?

[skillwill]

I take my Watch off at night and on nights when I’m not charging it, I notice the battery goes down by quite a lot - I took it off at about 82% and woke up and it was on 67%. I guess it’s not too bad but considering during the day when I was wearing - and using - it, it went from 100% to 82%, it’s almost the same having it on or off.

anyone know what it’s doing while I’m not wearing it? And if there’s anything I can do to improve the situation?

(S3 GPS, OS 4.2)

 

[44267547]

Is the Apple Watch tethered to your iPhone when it's not in use or is it using Wi-Fi? Perhaps something is contributing to the battery drain with an application, which you can try a hard reset by holding down the digital crown and power button for 10 seconds.

 

[lambertjohn]

Why not just turn it off when you go to sleep, turn it back on when you wake up and are ready to start your day? You just hold down the button on the side then tap the slider on the screen. Takes what? 1.3256987 seconds to do. Easy peasy.

 

[Nick Milner]

Drinking all your booze.

 

[honglong1976]

Mine does the same thing. No additional apps. Watch OS 4.2 sucks!

I gave up using the Apple Watch for sleeping. It's useless!

Not been impressed with WatchOS 4.2 or iOS11. Both pretty buggy still!

I have an amazfit bip now. 45 day battery life and always on screen!

 

[Resqu2]

I’m on 4.2, AWS3 and I may loose 3-4% overnight and I wear mine every night to track resting heart rate. I charge it every other day for an hour while I shower/rest a bit after work. Not sure why y’all are having these issues but hope you get them figured out.

 

[Plett]

If you're not wearing it just put it on the charger at night and don't worry about it

 

[BlueMoon63]

I’m on 4.2, AWS3 and I may loose 3-4% overnight and I wear mine every night to track resting heart rate. I charge it every other day for an hour while I shower/rest a bit after work. Not sure why y’all are having these issues but hope you get them figured out.

Pretty much the same as me. Usually lose about 3-4% over 7-8 hours of sleep. Love the sleep tracking app AutoSleep. I pretty much charge only while showering and getting ready and can go a week before I need to charge for an hour or so.

4.2 has been very solid.

 

[artfossil]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)

(Who will watch the Watch(men))

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

One more advocate for wearing during/tracking your sleep. Battery usually only goes down for me around 10%, so I think the bottom line is it will go down the same whether your wearing it or not (I always turn on theater mode).

I'm not sure why your's would go down so much on a S3 with a new battery and all (I'm on a refurb S1). One comment I have is to not worry too much about the displayed percentage because a lot of that is guesswork. If I charge my watch to 100% before bed, I've noticed that my battery tends to be around 97% or so in the morning, but if I my watch was say 60% at night then in the morning it might read 48%. So from my anecdotal experiences it seems to drop more quickly in the middle of the curve.

So in agreement with the above you have 3 options. Turn it off, charge it, or wear it! No reason to just let it sit idly by while discharging battery.

 

[BlueMoon63]

One more advocate for wearing during/tracking your sleep. Battery usually only goes down for me around 10%, so I think the bottom line is it will go down the same whether your wearing it or not (I always turn on theater mode).

I'm not sure why your's would go down so much on a S3 with a new battery and all (I'm on a refurb S1). One comment I have is to not worry too much about the displayed percentage because a lot of that is guesswork. If I charge my watch to 100% before bed, I've noticed that my battery tends to be around 97% or so in the morning, but if I my watch was say 60% at night then in the morning it might read 48%. So from my anecdotal experiences it seems to drop more quickly in the middle of the curve.

So in agreement with the above you have 3 options. Turn it off, charge it, or wear it! No reason to just let it sit idly by while discharging battery.

Same as you. Theatre mode is active, do not disturb, silent alarm set. Autosleep tracks without starting or even installed. I install it on the watch and only activate the lights out to see if it tracks better or if I go to bed early.

Wake up is always been 98 or 97% on my 42mm S3. Never understood reviews that said you can’t wear it to bed as your battery will die. Love AutoSleep after trying 4-5 different apps, I finally found the one I like the best. Just the heart rate tracking is great.

 

[MiamiC70]

I take my Watch off at night and on nights when I’m not charging it, I notice the battery goes down by quite a lot - I took it off at about 82% and woke up and it was on 67%. I guess it’s not too bad but considering during the day when I was wearing - and using - it, it went from 100% to 82%, it’s almost the same having it on or off.

anyone know what it’s doing while I’m not wearing it? And if there’s anything I can do to improve the situation?

(S3 GPS, OS 4.2)

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