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Ultra Battery life

I charge every night and don't mind it but just for fun I figured I'd run the battery on this the weekend.

Off charger: 10:00AM Friday
On charger: 12:00PM Sunday (@ 20% remaining!)

This is with a workout Friday, and a long outdoor hike Sunday. Sleep tracking both nights, and no use of low power mode.

Love this thing. Easily last an entire weekend if needed.
 
Fynd said:
I charge every night and don't mind it but just for fun I figured I'd run the battery on this the weekend.

Off charger: 10:00AM Friday
On charger: 12:00PM Sunday (@ 20% remaining!)

This is with a workout Friday, and a long outdoor hike Sunday. Sleep tracking both nights, and no use of low power mode.

Love this thing. Easily last an entire weekend if needed.
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This has been my general experience as well, left for a trip up north Thursday morning, did around 16 miles of trails (tracked with Work out doors) and with super low cell service, charged it saturday night and it had 18% battery. I’m very active so this is good to see
 
Ok so Sunday at 11:30 am at 100 %
Now on Monday at 11:45 pm at 20 %

I went to hiking for about 2 hours without my phone and with bad cellular signal on Sunday, constantly checking the screen because I was following a route and today I used quite a lot answering notifications, checking the activity, etc... Also I use it for the sleep tracking feature.

So that means 1 and a half day with a heavy battery demanding hike. That's really good.
 
Took mine off the charger last night around 11pm for sleep tracking, woke up at 8:15am. Took the dog on a 1 hour walk sans iPhone while playing stored music to my AirPods connected only via LTE. Then went to the gym, did a 45 minute peloton with the watch on Wi-Fi no iPhone nearby, then a 45 minute Apple fitness yoga class again without iPhone but on Wi-Fi. Spent the rest of the day being lazy and popped it on the charger at 37% at 9:30pm. AOD was on. Could easily make it to lunch tomorrow but another active day ahead. For reference, the activity level was about 1400 active calories burned with the watch, all a mix of non iPhone connection LTE and Wi-Fi.

Running the same test on my series 8 tonight since I’m still on the fence.
 
Coming from the Garmin Fenix 6X Sapphire, I've charged the AW Ultra 4 times. I don't like charging watches, it's not something worth worrying about. I've used G-Shock Solar and Citizen Eco Drives as my favorite watches.

Took the AW Ultra out of the box and charged it and got over 47 hours, the next charges I'm getting 48-52 depending on how many times I work out and answer phone calls, texts, and reading emails. I don't listen to music on my watch. If I enable sleep tracking, which something I want, then I get over 48 hours.
 
I loose 8% a night without wearing it and putting it in battery saving mode. Is this normal? Even flight mode I loose 7% during night
 
8% +/- is normal for me with sleep mode and sleep tracking.

I wish there was a way to track app battery usage on the watch (if there is let me know). I suspect a lot of the variation we see might be from say the Workout app being better optimized than some other app, or one podcast app being better than another, or even some app that's gone wonky in the background and we don't know about it.

There's kind of too much variability in the landscape to adequately know how good the watch is except in your individual use cases.
 
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xxBlack said:
30% per hour streaming music while workout? Has anyone tested that? I did the other stuffs and mine is a little bit better (turned off hand wash etc)
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1-1/4 hour hike the other day, with Pocketcasts and WorkoutDoors running lost me 20% of the battery. That's too high, not even as good as my AW7. On the other hand, it's defiinitely better in day-to-day usage. No, prior AW I've had would make it two days and this one did it with 43% battery remaining.
 
DontGetTheCheese said:
8% +/- is normal for me with sleep mode and sleep tracking.

I wish there was a way to track app battery usage on the watch (if there is let me know). I suspect a lot of the variation we see might be from say the Workout app being better optimized than some other app, or one podcast app being better than another, or even some app that's gone wonky in the background and we don't know about it.

There's kind of too much variability in the landscape to adequately know how good the watch is except in your individual use cases.
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But I dont use sleep mode. I also dont wear it at night. And 8% for just lying around not that good. Or am I wrong?
 
While the battery life is great, it isn't anything other than a brute force solution to the problem (provide a bigger battery!)

I still love it though!

Apple just needs to continue making the watch components and WatchOS more efficient
 
firewire9000 said:
So that means 1 and a half day with a heavy battery demanding hike. That's really good.
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I wish I could agree. Love my Apple Watch but not for serious exercise. I’ve just got a whole week from my Garmin wearing it 24/7 and at least 16 hours gps tracking. Still had 20% charge. They just knock Apple out of the ball park still.
 
wes2006ag said:
I have been losing closer to 15% an hour with exercise tracking and streaming music or podcasts over cellular without my iPhone present.
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I agree with 15%. Just finished a hike with map tracking and listening to airpods streaming via LTE and I used 14%. With my AW6 this used to be more like 35%.
 
interesting I tend to lose 7% per 30 min running with LTE BUT music stored on the watch. Do you use AOD? I would get 14% per hour with music stored on watch..
 
xxBlack said:
interesting I tend to lose 7% per 30 min running with LTE BUT music stored on the watch. Do you use AOD? I would get 14% per hour with music stored on watch..
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I use AoD all the time including while tracking workouts and lose around 15% an hour over cellular while exercising.
 
Been u
cvconde said:
100% charge at 8:45a yesterday (Saturday), went for a 6-mile run using LTE for streaming music, and Apple Fitness app. Used about 20% battery for that. Slept with watch, and at 8:45a this morning, at 50%. Another 6-mile run today with music from downloaded playlist on with, and currently at 20% at 5:00p.

Not bad, but maybe not quite as good as others in this thread.
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100% charge at 6:50a Monday. 1.5 hour gym workout using Apple Fitness app, but with phone nearby (so tethered). Another Gym workout this morning, again using Apple Fitness App and tethered. So no activity really away from the phone, or connected to GPS or LTE. 7:50p Tuesday, and at 35%. So have gotten 37 hrs, with 35% still available.

Obviously (as stated by Apple and many others), GPS and LTE really drain the battery.
 
This should help people that think they are losing too much battery and how they are losing….


Streaming from cellular will eat up a battery!!
 
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wes2006ag said:
I have been losing closer to 15% an hour with exercise tracking and streaming music or podcasts over cellular without my iPhone present.
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When running outside in darkness with AOD on i lose around 10% per hour with Apple Music streaming and cellular on. No iphone. So that is around 10 hours of constant use. I will test it next with no music.
 
I’m losing about 3% an hour without using much of anything on the watch. I check the time and occasionally glance at notifications or pause a podcast. It’s always tethered to my phone, no cellular being used and no workouts being tracked. I honestly can’t see how u guys are getting such amazing battery life. Fortunately I don’t need the watch to last for days at a time. I took it off the charger at 5:15am and it’s currently 9:35pm and I’m at 53%.
 
I went from 6:00am to 11:30pm and ended up around 65% yesterday. 30 min run indoors (so no gps) in the morning and had always on display on all day. About halfway through the day I turned the brightness to the lowest setting because honestly I don’t love the screen being so bright all the time except when I’m outside.

No Cellular. No GPS.

I’m not sure this is s good as battery life as some are getting.

What do you all think?
 
cvconde said:
100% charge at 8:45a yesterday (Saturday), went for a 6-mile run using LTE for streaming music, and Apple Fitness app. Used about 20% battery for that. Slept with watch, and at 8:45a this morning, at 50%. Another 6-mile run today with music from downloaded playlist on with, and currently at 20% at 5:00p.

Not bad, but maybe not quite as good as others in this thread.
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Your results are similar to mine. Using LTE (not just having LTE turned on but using watch not on wifi and out of range of phone) still is a battery hog. Frustrating that many reporting here are not clear about whether using LTE or not. I returned my watch partly because I was getting less good battery life than others here (but I re-ordered :)).
 
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