Please explain why you need more battery, I beg you

[baller1308]

1. If you forget once, you're screwed for the whole day ahead.
2. If one day is the average, then that means it will be considerably less with heavy use.
3. The total capacity of a lithium battery diminishes over time, and I'm not keen on replacing my accessories as often as the phone itself.
4. Having to take it off when you sleep means you can't use sleep monitoring apps.

The same could be said for a phone though too, if you forget to charge it you are kinda screwed. Most people do have chargers in their car and at work so you wouldn't be as screwed vs a smartwatch. But since the batteries on the smartwatches are small it shouldn't take long to charge.

 

[Lord Hamsa]

When Samsung released the original Gear, they got absolutely panned for, among other things, only having a one day battery life (including on this very forum in this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1631127/ ), so I guess it really is a problem for some people if they're also calling Apple out for the same thing. Personally, if a watch can last a full day (as in 24 hours), then I'd be fine with it and would probably charge it every night even if it lasted 3 days

I think the panning on the Gear was that they got very defensive when asked if it would last for a full day between charges, which most people took as "no, this won't last 16-18 hours". Personally, I'd be fine if it had enough battery to last a single full day with moderate to heavy use; charging at night isn't a problem for me.

The other thing to note is that Apple is apparently still working on the battery, trying to make improvements before the final production run and launch. We may get more specific usage numbers at that time.

 

[vannibombonato]

PLEASE explain why you need more battery, I beg you. Did you forget that you have to take off your watch to go to sleep anyway?!

Are you saying you don't sleep I guess? If you are putting it down, it will be charged. How hard is it to understand? What am I missing?

Just married now...but i go to a club, sleep at someone's place, voilà i don't have a watch anymore.

First thing that came to my mind...

 

[Wiesenlooser]

Because i want to be woken by my smartwatch.