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What to do with Apple Watch at Night?!

MartyCan said:
I have 2 Sport watches and alternate them. I wear one of them 24/7 pretty much. I have a sleep tracker app so I wear one through the night for that. If the watch I've worn in the day has more than 35% left at bed time I wear it for the night and change in the morning. If not I switch at bedtime.
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This is the best answer, whether you wear your watch to bed, or in the shower or not. I only use the Watch for sports when I don't want to carry a wallet, and so it's always charged and always has plenty of charge no matter how my day devlops after I put it on.

For the customer who loves the Watch, having two is a no-brainier. More variety to match with outfits, and activities, and fewer band swaps. This is what watch people have been doing for years, and it's not just to avoid having to wind their expensive mechanicals by hand.

I'd go so far as to have three watches. Two at home, and one at the office, so I've always got a fresh watch no matter where I'm leaving from. And when the Watch 2 comes out, it's the perfect opportunity to add to the collection. By the Watch 3, there's and entire collection.
 
Julien said:
You need to get off the couch and workout some.:eek: Also it is obvious that you are not utilizing your :apple:Watch's features (notifications, Siri, weather, directions, music, music control, .....) to any degree so why not just wear a regular watch? :(

It should be a badge of honor to end every day with less than 20% left.
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I have everything enabled and I usually have 40% left at the end of the day. I check my texts during the day as well and maybe I will play some pong/brick breaker.
 
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You know what, I don't actually think it's beneficial to charge the watch EVERY NIGHT, even when the battery is above 50%.

I normally only charge mine if the battery drops to 30% or less and I know it won't last me the next day. However, as a test, I put my watch on the charger last night (the battery showed 60% and it would easily have got me through today, so normally, would not have charged it) and have just taken it off the charger now. As soon as I took the watch off, the battery instantly dropped to 99%. Then, a minute later, it dropped to 98%. I have been wearing my watch less than 20 minutes and the battery is now showing 97%.

In my normal charging cycles (when I charge it when it gets to 30% or less, and I know it won't last the next day), when I remove it from the charger, it stays on 100% for at least an hour, before it drops to 99%.

It seems that if I charge my watch EVERY night no matter what the battery shows, the watch will not hold the initial 100% charge for very long at all, before it drops to 99% or less.

And if I am 100% honest, I experience the exact same results with my iPhone 6 - if charged EVERY night no matter what the battery shows, the initial 100% charge drops VERY quickly, however if I ONLY charge it when it drops to 20% (which I do anyway), the initial 100% charge holds for at least an hour and I can sometimes get through a whole day and the battery will still show around 95%!
 
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Dino F said:
You know what, I don't actually think it's beneficial to charge the watch EVERY NIGHT, even when the battery is above 50%.

I normally only charge mine if the battery drops to 30% or less and I know it won't last me the next day. However, as a test, I put my watch on the charger last night (the battery showed 60% and it would easily have got me through today, so normally, would not have charged it) and have just taken it off the charger now. As soon as I took the watch off, the battery instantly dropped to 99%. Then, a minute later, it dropped to 98%. I have been wearing my watch less than 20 minutes and the battery is now showing 97%.

In my normal charging cycles (when I charge it when it gets to 30% or less, and I know it won't last the next day), when I remove it from the charger, it stays on 100% for at least an hour, before it drops to 99%.

It seems that if I charge my watch EVERY night no matter what the battery shows, the watch will not hold the initial 100% charge for very long at all, before it drops to 99% or less.

And if I am 100% honest, I experience the exact same results with my iPhone 6 - if charged EVERY night no matter what the battery shows, the initial 100% charge drops VERY quickly, however if I ONLY charge it when it drops to 20% (which I do anyway), the initial 100% charge holds for at least an hour and I can sometimes get through a whole day and the battery will still show around 95%!
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Well within the limit of accuracy for the battery meter of any modern electronic device. The test would be to run it to shutdown and see if that was any longer/shorter with each charge method.
 
sbuntin said:
I do like the nightstand mode - it's basically a digital alarm clock, but the screen only comes on if the watch detects motion. tap it or even nudge the bedside table and it comes on displaying the time in large green numbers, then the display sleeps after a few seconds.
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My request is for the watch to stay on while on the charger without having to tap to see the time.

Minor preference for bedtime and during the day at work.
 
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rockyromero said:
My request is for the watch to stay on while on the charger without having to tap to see the time.

Minor preference for bedtime and during the day at work.
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I agree. It could be an optional setting for those who prefer it as it is now. I doubt the battery charge time would be affected too much. But perhaps there could be an issue with burn-in? I thought those days were over with OLED but perhaps not when it comes to the AW. I doubt that would be the case but it seems odd that "nightstand mode" would not stay on all the time. I have never seen a nightstand clock or alarm clock that only displayed the time when you disturbed it in some way.



Mike
 
Tinmania said:
I doubt the battery charge time would be affected too much. But perhaps there could be an issue with burn-in? I thought those days were over with OLED but perhaps not when it comes to the AW.
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I'm accustomed to iPhone and iPads been lit up for long periods and the screen works perfectly. The AW has the same screen function.

It's an unreasonable constraint by Apple to address the battery limitations.

In the workout hour, I want all my devices supporting me.

I can always charge it later.

It's still a minor consideration.

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I really like having my watch charging overnight. I can tap the charger and read the time without finding my glasses which is brilliant. It's nearly midnight and I'm still on 62% but it'll be on the charger as soon as I get round to going to bed.
 
rockyromero said:
I'm accustomed to iPhone and iPads been lit up for long periods and the screen works perfectly. The AW has the same screen function.
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Correct, but the iPhone and iPad do not have OLED displays--they are LCDs. Some of Samsung's early OLED phones suffered from burn-in. I was just wondering if the AW might have the same susceptibility..... though I HIGHLY doubt it.

So, yes, I want the ability to have nightstand mode on all the time. Right now I either have to tap it or look at my iPhone to see what the charge level is of my AW. It'd be easier if it was on all the time. To expand that, I wouldn't mind an option to have a watch face--or even an app--displayed instead of the nightstand display.



Mike
 
I just realized last night after using nightstand for a few nights that taping on top of the watch lights it up for about 5 secs and taping on the watch face lights it up for 1-2 mins.
 
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