Lost 7% battery in an hour. This isn’t looking good and won’t even last 15 hours at this rate. Any similar experiences or am I returning this tomorrow?
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Ultra Battery life
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Its new, takes some days to get to normal. Same as it was with every apple watch before
Since its so new and just had all of your data loaded onto it, it needs to properly index which may take a day or 2. Give it a couple of days and it will stabilize. This usually happens with all new releases 
Watched a review the other day where it was worn for about 50 hours straight and he did workouts each day that lasted 3 hours each and still had 20% left. That is pretty impressive.
You have to remember battery life isn’t based on 100% screen on time like with the phone. If you’re constantly playing with it the battery will go down. It’s meant for normally use like exercising or whatever
It’s a clean install of my phone and watch. All set up as new, surely the phone should handle all the indexing? My phone is on 96% after a clean install, set up as new, reinstalling apps etc.
I’m hoping it’s not an exchange job as I know switching the esim in the Watch will be such a pain.
Charged mine at 100% yesterday evening (10 pm local time), used it for sleep tracking. Now it’s 11 am, it’s 86%. Not sure if it’s great or not…
i was planing to charge it every two days so for me to keep his promise, it needs to stay alive until tomorrow 10 pm. I’m not sure it will make it
i was planing to charge it every two days so for me to keep his promise, it needs to stay alive until tomorrow 10 pm. I’m not sure it will make it
Keep in mind the type of watch face you are using can also drain the battery. If you have the live compass on your watch face as a complication it is going to drain the battery faster as it’s going to be constantly working in the background based on your location. Just something to keep in mind.
Just use the watch as you'd normally use it for a week and see how you get on. Don't overthink it and keep looking at the battery, trying to work out how much its going down by every hour, how that compares to other people on the internet etc. That way madness lies.
‘My Ultra came with 86% out of the box today. After syncing, updating to new OS and playing for hours, it went on the charger with 80%. I think it did well. Won’t know till later today. Came of the charger at 3:30 this am, we will see.
Yeah, this is the same as “Well my brand new XYZ car from ABC Company gets 25 mpg and my neighbor’s sister’s boyfriend’s cousin get 27 in theirs. Something must be wrong with mine.”
How you use it will impact battery life and 1 day isn’t a big enough sample size to say the 24 hours of battery life you got (probably playing with the watch all day and continually checking it, like we all did) means there is a problem with the watch. Maybe there is, maybe there isn’t, but that’s tough to say after 1 day.
Its the same whenever Apple launches any product. As well as indexing/setup drain, there might be day one bugs etc, so best bet is usually to just chill out, use it for a week or so and see how things are panning out. Look online to see if its a common experience or not and then call Apple if you're concerned. But its a slippery slope to be fixated on battery percentages on anything from day one. Just enjoy using whatever you've bought.
If you've got a faulty device, it should become very clear during that week. But remember, you've got your 14 day no quibble return from Apple and a year's warranty if there's a fault which is less obvious and/or develops over time.
So far I am losing about 1% and hour but then I have not used my watch that much. Will see how much I lose with a 1 hour hike with GPS running.
My battery life so far has been abysmal. I came from a series 4 that I’d start the day with at around 8am and finish around 10pm at ~60% if I didn’t workout and around ~45% if I had an hour workout. Yesterday my ultra got here at 90% out of the box. Just the normal setup drained it 14%. By 10pm I was at 35%. No workouts, and I didn’t even spend tons of time on it as it was a super busy work day. I charged the watch to 100% last night and slept with it on. Was 100% at 11pm. Woke up at 5am, AOD off during this time, was down to 91%. It’s now 8am, all I’ve done is driven two hours and my watch is at 84%. This is super troubling, AOD is off, and I haven’t done a thing besides check the time today.
I've had a good experience so far. I charged it fully Friday evening just before bed, woke up at around 93%. My Series 4 was usually using 12-15% during the night tracking.
Then went for a one hour workout early PM (just regular gym stuff), it is now close to 4 PM where I live and I'm at 77%. At this rate I'll only have to charge it again tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. And as other pointed out I except things to get a bit better when several days will have passed after the initial setup.
Then went for a one hour workout early PM (just regular gym stuff), it is now close to 4 PM where I live and I'm at 77%. At this rate I'll only have to charge it again tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. And as other pointed out I except things to get a bit better when several days will have passed after the initial setup.
Early report so no good data but I set mine up Friday 23 (yesterday as of this writing) and it came with almost 90% ootb. Once setup (think it was down 10% to 80% or so after setup) I charged it to 100% and put it on. This was at 17:06 according battery settings.
It's been almost 23h as of writing this and I'm at 60%.
Of course, been using it more since it's a new device so there's that. Other usage points - went for a 1h walk logged as workout yesterday eve and I also use Autosleep so always sleep with it. I use always on display in the lowest brightness setting (there's only 3). Sufficient for Scandinavia right now and will be for 8 more months, hehe. When in dim mode I've disabled the compass complication on the Wayfinder face so hopefully it uses that sensor a bit less.
In sum, looking great so far and miles ahead of any other AW I've had (came from S6 and had S4 earlier).
It's been almost 23h as of writing this and I'm at 60%.
Of course, been using it more since it's a new device so there's that. Other usage points - went for a 1h walk logged as workout yesterday eve and I also use Autosleep so always sleep with it. I use always on display in the lowest brightness setting (there's only 3). Sufficient for Scandinavia right now and will be for 8 more months, hehe. When in dim mode I've disabled the compass complication on the Wayfinder face so hopefully it uses that sensor a bit less.
In sum, looking great so far and miles ahead of any other AW I've had (came from S6 and had S4 earlier).
Charged to 100% at 2:15pm yesterday. No cellular.
75 min workout last night and 60min workout this am both paired with Polar OH1 HR monitor.
Watch was used for sleep last night as well.
2km outdoor walk with GPS and 2km run with GPS this afternoon.
Been up with 7:40am today.
Currently 2:23pm and Im at 62%
75 min workout last night and 60min workout this am both paired with Polar OH1 HR monitor.
Watch was used for sleep last night as well.
2km outdoor walk with GPS and 2km run with GPS this afternoon.
Been up with 7:40am today.
Currently 2:23pm and Im at 62%
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