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S10 Battery Life
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After 3-4 days with awesome battery (I use sleep tracking as my metric) I suddenly had accelerate drain again. I had exactly one 3rd party app I had installed the day before, Peloton, and after deleting it, battery drain was back to normal the next day. 4-6% overnight drain with 6 hours of sleep versus the random 17% I had one night.
I’ve said this a few times already but having just updated from the S4 Nike + AW, this S10 is a beast with the battery life.
26 hours of non stop use and wear - sleep mode on at night - and I still have 31% battery.
The coolest thing, in my opinion anyway, is the quick charge feature… 15 - 30 min and you’re good to go!
Started the day with 41% - forgot to charge in the morning today. Looking like I should be able to make the whole day though!
My Series 10 seems to last forever with the following changes I made (though I haven’t measured it):
Brightness: Lowest Setting
Wake on Raise: Off
Automatic App Install: Off
Auto-Launch (when submitted): off
Auto-Launch Lice Activities: off
Show live activities in wrist down: off
Reduce Motion: On
Tap to talk: off
Double Tap: off
Cover to Mute: off
siri (listen for): off
Raise to Speak: off
Crown Haptics: off
Time in Daylight: off
Environmental Sound Measurement: off
Music Detection: off
App Store automatic downloads: off
Heart Cardio Fitness Notifications: off
Show Notifications on wrist down: turned many off
WatchFace
Too many live complications on a watch face drain battery so I minimized complications on my main watch face to two(date and weather), use widgets and optimize arrangement of honeycomb app screen.
Brightness: Lowest Setting
Wake on Raise: Off
Automatic App Install: Off
Auto-Launch (when submitted): off
Auto-Launch Lice Activities: off
Show live activities in wrist down: off
Reduce Motion: On
Tap to talk: off
Double Tap: off
Cover to Mute: off
siri (listen for): off
Raise to Speak: off
Crown Haptics: off
Time in Daylight: off
Environmental Sound Measurement: off
Music Detection: off
App Store automatic downloads: off
Heart Cardio Fitness Notifications: off
Show Notifications on wrist down: turned many off
WatchFace
Too many live complications on a watch face drain battery so I minimized complications on my main watch face to two(date and weather), use widgets and optimize arrangement of honeycomb app screen.
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Maybe time to move to a non smart watch……
You sound pretty ignorant. With those features off, it’s still 100x smarter than a non-smart watch. Most of them are gimmicks. I’m a heavy Apple Watch doing advanced stuff with it everyday from: Notifications, fitness, audiobook and podcast control, camera control, calendaring, reminders, weather, walking and transit maps, language translating (traveling in taiwan), breathing, timers and alarms, voice recording, mail, news, calculating, appletv control, messaging, vitals and sleep tracking, Apple Pay, health monitoring.. the list goes on and on. It vastly reduces my phone use times.
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Not sure what you mean by ‘lasts forever’ but my S10 last about 22 hours including 2 one hour workouts and still ends at 30% as I prefer to charge all my devices when they hit 30%. And this is with all the features on by default. Which is why I said that we probably don’t need to go through your checklist to get the best battery mileage and probably better to use a conventional watch than jump through all those hoops.
But then again I don’t do ‘advanced stuff with it everyday’ like some people. To me these are pretty standard functions of any smart wearable.
In any case, to each their own. If driving their Ferrari around the Walmart shopping lot makes them happy (as everything else about the car is a ‘gimmick’) more power to them…….
Cheers!
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True, let’s not start a fight. Some of those features that use battery and I turned off are features that annoy me anyway and I actually don’t want. Since I travel, long battery life is useful for me, and also, it lengthens the life of the watch in general since I need less charges. I don’t have quantitative numbers, but my battery feels a lot longer lasting due to these changes, and none of them make me feel like I’m missing something. I would turn it back on if I did feel something I use was taken away. In general, I try to do things efficiently in all aspects of my life, and the little things do matter. But just want to be clear, it’s not the same as making it a dumb watch.
Just got the watch yesterday. Charged last night and put on my wrist before going to bed. Today 17 hrs later it’s at 74%. I have carrot 5 days forecast, vitals, sleep, timer on display. So far doing good.
Mine lasts me about 24 hours. I charge it in the morning as I get ready to 100% then wear it the entire day and for sleep tracking. The next time it gets charged is when I wake up.
AOD is on. Brightness at max setting. I went for a 20 minute run today and tracked that. As of now battery is at 58%. Will sleep with it and charge in the morning.
AOD is on. Brightness at max setting. I went for a 20 minute run today and tracked that. As of now battery is at 58%. Will sleep with it and charge in the morning.
What percent do you lose during sleep tracking? I’m actually very happy with my series 10 battery, but during sleep tracking it seems erratic, losing anywhere from 5 to 20%.
When I woke up, my phone was off because I didn't charge it overnight. I had almost fallen asleep when my iPhone was down to 2% battery.
42mm S10 is my first Apple Watch ever so maybe I'm off base here: My watch also loses about 5% an hour on a typical day even with things like AOD and Raise to Wake. 5% an hour (on paper) means 20hrs of battery life; this beats what Apple says you should get (18hrs/day). I'd say that's pretty good!
Besides AOD, listening for Siri, music detection, and environmental sounds are the big ones for battery drain without users realising it. However, the S10 charges so quickly that battery drain is generally not an issue except in specific cases.
I enjoy AOD because it makes the watch feel more like a traditional watch. I didn’t miss it on my previous watch (S4) since I primarily wanted a fitness tracker.
Ultimately, it depends on individual needs and expectations—to each their own.
I enjoy AOD because it makes the watch feel more like a traditional watch. I didn’t miss it on my previous watch (S4) since I primarily wanted a fitness tracker.
Ultimately, it depends on individual needs and expectations—to each their own.
This makes me wonder if this is the road Apple is taking with the AW moving forward. Faster charging & keeping a smaller battery for thickness mitigation.
I think they'll stick with "18hr" battery life.
As various tech advance (battery, screen, processor), they'll use a battery small enough to last 18hr.
There's diminishing returns on faster charging, only the more depleted state can be sped up.
New version 10 watch. My battery started to act up and I have a couple observations and am looking for comments on my thinking. First, I just realized over the past few days that my watch is set to optimize the battery. This seems to have just started, so maybe with a recent update it got switched on. Along with optimization, it seems that some times my battery is only charged to 80%. That's fine because it still last me all day. However, it does get under 30% by evening and I get a notice to charge it before I go to bed. That notification is new to me and why I started looking into what's going on with my battery.
The other thing I noticed is that on days where I listed to music a lot (on a Bluetooth speaker) the battery runs down quickly. This seems odd since I'm playing Spotify using my iPhone. However, it seems like the watch sort of mirrors the phone and I think I need to shut that off somehow. Does that even make sense?
The other thing I noticed is that on days where I listed to music a lot (on a Bluetooth speaker) the battery runs down quickly. This seems odd since I'm playing Spotify using my iPhone. However, it seems like the watch sort of mirrors the phone and I think I need to shut that off somehow. Does that even make sense?
Maybe you can try removing the ‘now playing’ app on your watch. (I hope it’s called that, language is not set to English on my watch). I did remove that app because I noticed my battery would drain while I was driving in my car and listening to Spotify on my iPhone with Bluetooth.
It did help on my watch.
Interesting. Now Playing is on my watch but it's not in the list of apps when I look at My Watch on my iPhone. If I delete it, I'm wondering how I would get it back if I decided at some point that I'd like to use it.
That’s indeed a good question! I looked in the App Store on the watch and I can’t find it there either.
Edit: it is in the App Store. After two tries I’ve found it as ‘now playing’ while i am Dutch and the Dutch name for the app is different (‘huidige’). 😊
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