“While Apple claims ‘all-day’ battery life (which it defines as 18 hours of mixed use), many new Apple Watch owners are realizing that ‘all day’ isn’t enough,” Brad Moon writes for Forbes. “Even worse, that 18 hours can quickly dwindle to as little as three hours between charges if you really push the device.”
“When the Apple Watch 2 arrives in 2016, it’s a pretty safe bet that longer battery life is going to be one of the key improvements over the first generation device,” Moon writes. “The good news for current Apple Watch owners is that there are ways you can take control of the situation to extend your time between charges. With a few tweaks — and without giving up much in the way of the cool stuff I bought an Apple Watch for in the first place — I’m now at the point where I typically charge mine every other night. Double Apple’s standard.”
Here are five tips for making your Apple Watch battery last longer:
1. Don’t Use it as a Speakerphone
2. Choose the Right Watch Face
3. Cut the Animations
4. Reign in the Notifications (Especially E-Mail)
5. Use Power Reserve Mode
All 5 tips above discussed in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Solid tips. By employing only #4, we’ve never had to resort to any of the other tips and frequently put Apple Watch to bed each night with around 30% battery left.
Another suggestion is to turn off “Wake Screen on Wrist Raise”. My job requires me to raise my arm often and this kills the battery because the watch always thinks I’m raising my arm to look at my watch. Along with #4, I go to bed with 50-70%.
Most times the watch has plenty of battery left. Generally around 40%. I can even sleep with it on after a full day and it will still have power in the morning. Usually takes an hour to charge.
Not sure what all the fuss is about.
Can’t agree more. I wear mine all day, and through the night – no problem. Even then it usually still has 25-30% power in the morning. Charge it for about an hour in the morning, while I’m getting dressed.
I really do not understand the problem – seems like a non-issue.
So, the answer to getting great battery life is to hobble your Apple Watch. I hate these kinds of articles. I hate the ones telling you how to get better battery life from iPhones too. They all tell you to disable features that you might otherwise want to use. I have never had battery life issues with my Apple watch. Ever. If I don’t charge it at night, it will last into the next day until about 5pm before it warns me that it’s at 10% battery. Basically, it lasts about 36 hours from a full charge even if I have used the workout app, and other apps that use the sensors more often.
I use my Apple Watch every day since the launch and have never had it run out of power during the day even if I am using it the second day on the same charge. I have used the reserve mode once on the second day but there is more than enough power for my use on a continual daily basis. There is no need to hobble the Watch to make it last.
Don’t listen to these battery-scare articles. Never had any battery issue with regular use in real world. I love my Apple watch. It goes on stand at night with 30-35% juice left every day. Unless I had to spend a non-stop hour demoing it to wanna-buyers at a party. And in the end, many want one 😉
You saved me the trouble…completely agree. I always have 30 – 40% when I put my watch to bed. Battery concern was by biggest concern with buying the watch – has not been an issue.
I use Airplane Mode to extend my battery life most of the time. It also charges faster in Airplane Mode.
My Apple watch is fantastic and i am glad i bought it. I suppose that some people can push any product beyond the designed and advertised limits. Then they complain. Apple has to hide the sales of new products because the analysts always think they shouls sell as well as the iPhone. if any start up had these watch sales and profits, the writers and analists would be praising them and bragging on their product. to some writers and analists, Apple is doomed.
I have never had battery life issues dispute using my watch a lot. That being that suggestion #4 should be done regardless. Controlling what notifications the watch gets is just a good thing to do to prevent getting unnecessary notifications nonstop. Personally despite getting a low amount of emails I get email notifications on my watch. Thats just my personal preference.
I turned off emails immediately, this is utterly pointless in my opinion. Too small and screen and too limited an ability to reply. Check your phone for email.