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Apple Watch Ultra 2 Advertised With 72-Hour Battery Life in Low Power Mode, But There's a Catch

ignatius345 said:
I might obsessively check the time pretty frequently when I'm catching a train or something. Ten times an hour? Fifteen? I have no idea. It's sort of an ambient thing with a boring old quartz watch that knows not one bit how often I absentmindedly look at it -- as much a time security blanket as anything else.

But after four decades of having one, I feel like if I had an Apple Watch I'd find myself kind of weirded out by the blank screen and probably checking it more often than necessary just out of mystery. Does Apple Watch have an hourly chime or vibration or something? That could be useful.
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I check my watch quite frequently due to the nature of how I have notifications set up; but not 22 lol. I’ve been an AW user going back to S3 (and now S1Ultra) and as a watch enthusiast my entire life (I have an embarrassing number of Seiko 5’s), the move was pretty seamless.

Always On is a great feature, and yes, you can set up a notification ding/pulse to go off on the top of the hour.
 
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sw1tcher said:
Alright, who does 15 hours of hiking workout over the course of 60 hours? That doesn't seem like real-world usage to me for your average Apple Watch owner.
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I think the only time I got close to that was when I was on vacation and hiking a ton of trails in Hawaii.
 
t0rqx said:
These days with Apple. If it sounds too good to be true...it probably...has a catch😂. Turning it off probably gives you a week battery life, pressing the button quick will show you the time only. Why not use that scenario.
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At least there is a button to turn off unlike Airpods Max (collecting dust).

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“Battery life in Low Power Mode is based on the following use: 360 time checks, 360 notifications, 180 minutes of app use, and two 60-minute workouts with music playback from Apple Watch via Bluetooth, over the course of 72 hours”

I get this routinely no problem with my current AWU 1… but with THREE 60 minute workouts and probably a bit less app use.
 
All I need is one-hour battery life. Who in their right mind would need more than that? One hour on your wrist, two hours on the charger.
 
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This reminds me of those optimize your phone battery life articles. And the whole jist is desable all features
 
tooloud10 said:
Turning off Always On Display and Raise To Wake improved my normal Ultra battery life to about 48 hours. I would much rather have the better battery life than either of those features. I do not use Low Power Mode on any of my devices.
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Should have an option to turn off “always on” when wearing a long sleeve shirt, and said shirt is covering the watch.
 
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that is fine with me, I've never (had to) used low power mode on any of my AWs since S0.
My Ultra1 after ~38hrs of usage is typically at 25-30% battery life, then it goes on the charger for the night
 
Has anybody measured the difference in power draw if you use the new screen with the always on compass vs the original tap to enable? It might be negligible of course.
 
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It's possible the original Ultra would also get around 72 hours of battery life in Low Power Mode based on the new testing parameters, but this is not proven yet.
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Wouldn't it be great if Apple provided figures of the maximum battery life for a single activity (e.g. maximum time jogging with no other activity is: x hours; maximum talk time with no other activity: y minutes; maximum time with the always on display enabled: z hours)?

That way we could work out what the battery life would be for our own usage (i.e. if I have the always on display enabled for 30 hours and do 120 time checks over that time, that leaves me with 50% battery remaining which would give me the following number of minutes of talk time).
 
jandersonhill said:
Wouldn't it be great if Apple provided figures of the maximum battery life for a single activity (e.g. maximum time jogging with no other activity is: x hours; maximum talk time with no other activity: y minutes; maximum time with the always on display enabled: z hours)?

That way we could work out what the battery life would be for our own usage (i.e. if I have the always on display enabled for 30 hours and do 120 time checks over that time, that leaves me with 50% battery remaining which would give me the following number of minutes of talk time).
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jandersonhill said:
Wouldn't it be great if Apple provided figures of the maximum battery life for a single activity (e.g. maximum time jogging with no other activity is: x hours; maximum talk time with no other activity: y minutes; maximum time with the always on display enabled: z hours)?

That way we could work out what the battery life would be for our own usage (i.e. if I have the always on display enabled for 30 hours and do 120 time checks over that time, that leaves me with 50% battery remaining which would give me the following number of minutes of talk time).
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It’s impossible to accurately model any one user’s likely battery life. Everyone moves differently, uses the product differently, etc. Very broad-brush scenarios featuring unrealistically high numbers of power-hungry actions are about the only way to give a meaningful outline. They know nobody checks the time hundreds of times a day. The reason they use that metric is that the screen has to be lit and refreshed every time and they know how much power that draws. People seriously get too wound up about things that’ll almost certainly never affect their use.
 
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Am I just naive, or was Apple usually more above board than this? This seems akin to Samsung benchmark scandals and Intel processor deception/fine print. I find it very discouraging that Marketing is innovating more than Engineering, and it seems like a bad omen.
 
The battery life of the apple watches is abysmal. my garmin watch last days before needing charging.
 
cjgrif said:
I have been needing to charge every 3rd night, and even then it's usually just under 30% triggering the "charge before bed" message. I don't have cellular enabled and haven't been actively tracking workouts with it, AOD off, but no other low power mode options enabled.
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I try to remember to charge every morning for 30 minutes or so, but sometime go for more than two days (doing at least 2 - 1 hour outdoor workouts and 4 - 15-20 workouts a day. Never have a problem making it through the day.
 
constantsnags! said:
It’s impossible to accurately model any one user’s likely battery life. Everyone moves differently, uses the product differently, etc. Very broad-brush scenarios featuring unrealistically high numbers of power-hungry actions are about the only way to give a meaningful outline...
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That is the exact reason for my suggestion.

Those that want to get a rough idea of battery life for their usage would be able to get a feel for how much battery was used during a certain activity (such as listening to music while running) as opposed to aggregated numbers that are based on what they think you might do over the day, based on the average person.
 
I wish it is possible to enable cellular with low powered mode. Yes, I realize that is counter to saving energy, but I want to stay connected (e.g., get phone calls and messages) when the watch isn't near the iPhone or Wi-Fi.
 
JosephAW said:
If your checking the time 22 times per hour you need to find a better job. :rolleyes:⌚
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Which just shows how detached from reality Apple’s testing is. Typical Apple fashion, and precisely why there are many pain points on Apple’s hardware and software for many folks.
 
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