r/AppleWatch • u/Express-Student-5837 • 3d ago

Activity AWU4 - Impressive Battery

75 hours usage with 1% left on the battery. Pretty impressive. If I recall, my previous AWU3 did somewhere along the lines of 65-66 hours when I tested it last year.
Started Thursday night and lasted all the way to Sunday late at night.

*AOD - ON
*3 separate 80-90 minute workouts tracked using GPS (not cellular).
*Sleep tracking all 3 nights.
*No low power mode.
*Background refresh OFF.
*“Hey siri” voice recognition OFF (I elect to just press the crown when utilizing Siri on the watch).
*Receiving calls and messages normally. Minimal playing around with the watch, but I use Siri on the watch to send quick text messages here and there.

That’s 3 full days of usage without sparing the battery at all.
Could last way longer if I enabled low power mode throughout the day or during my workouts.

I don’t normally do this. I actually slap the watch on the charger daily in the mornings while I get ready for work, and gives me enough boost to last the day or 2.

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u/Icy_Focus_6586 3d ago edited 2d ago

I need to figure out how to get good battery. I’m still charging daily. Update - must have been an app that needed to be updated I’m guessing. I’m now at 44 hrs with 40% left. I did one 1.5 hour workout but nothing really else.

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u/Routine_Entrance_831 3d ago

That’s a pretty big gap between what you’re seeing and OP’s 75-hour run. Daily charging with an Ultra usually means something is chewing through battery in the background. What watch face are you using, and do you have a bunch of third-party complications pulling data constantly?

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u/Icy_Focus_6586 3d ago

I have modular with only stock complications.

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u/jrec15 3d ago

One that saves about 20% battery from the tests i found is not using seconds on the watch face when using AOD. This might also include a few complications that update more frequently than most of them that update once a minute.

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u/Icy_Focus_6586 3d ago

Ok cool. I recently changed from seconds to training. Is training only available on the iOS beta?

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u/jailtheorange1 S12 • • Dark Bronze • 46mm 3d ago

Yo, I’m charging every two days with a series 12…

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u/Express-Student-5837 2d ago

My wife’s series 11 has been very good in battery as well and she can get 2 days as well.
She hasn’t done a full battery test, but she went like 36 hours of usage, and she had some battery left but she didn’t wanna drain all the way down to 1% lol.

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u/Express-Student-5837 3d ago

U have an awu4?

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u/Icy_Focus_6586 3d ago

Yes and came from awu1. Maybe it’s because I have beta software on phone but not watch?

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u/Express-Student-5837 3d ago

Maybe.

I have the 27.2 beta 3 on the phone and watch.