Apple Watch series 5 battery life

My test today is going MUCH better. Took off charger at 6am. Did a 45 minute workout and after 90 mins, the watch was still at 100%. Now it is almost 9 hours later and watch still has 75%. I turned off Always On Screen and the Noise monitoring. Tomorrow I am going to enable Always On Screen, but leave Noise off and see if I get the same results.

If anyone else is having this battery drain, disable Noise and post your results. I am more confident that I will keep this, as I am sure Apple can fix the Noise app, or I can just leave it off.

Settings -> Noise -> Off

It’s definitely not the noise app for me as I never turned it on. Been doing much better today with the aod off. Almost 12 hours and at 60%. I have the 44mm. My wife has the 40mm and her battery is at 64%. Seems it should be opposite. Same settings as mine. Only difference is she has a much simpler watch face with less complications.

I had a full charge at 6AM. The phone was dead as a doornail by 9PM. I didn't do anything but wear it. No workouts. No streaming. My Series 2 would have still had 30-40% at this point. I called Support and they put a profile on my watch to track activity tomorrow.

YES! I just made a separate post about the same issue. I had a series 1 and my battery lasted ALL DAY with streaming music, movies, using activity app, etc. Now my battery won't even make it through 8hrs!

I am pretty sure it is on by default.

Here are my results yesterday. Ran with Always on Display & Noise monitoring off. Put watch on at 6am. Went for a 45 min workout/walk and then had on my wrist until 10pm (14 hours) and the watch was at 47%. This is what I previously had with my series 4. Today, I am doing the same thing, but now I have AOD on and only noise off to see the results.

I may call Apple to get a profile to install so they can get logs for 24 hours, still may just return it.

This is a Titanium 44m cellular version.

Did similar test today. Turned noise and Always on to off. Consumption was about 2-3% per hour.

after 6 hours I turned the Always on back to ON. Consumption is 5-6 per hour.

Just wearing it on, few notifications. No workout, no music, no gps.

So if you disable the Watch 5 features, you will get the Watch 4 but for the price of 5. Yeah, a real deal, glad I traded my S4 already...

I am extremely disappointed in the battery life. I have a series 2 and that battery life is longer than the series 5. I am using it the same way. I’m not sure if I got a bad watch or this is the norm.

I had the original then the series 2 then the series 3. I have minimal complications and watch face and use those watches moderately. I was getting physical damage to the screen and case due to my occupation so thought I’d update to the series 5 40mm for its smaller size. Battery life has been terrible, again set up as the others had been and again used moderately. By 6pm I am down to 15 to 20%, the 3 others I have purchased over the years always had 40 to 50% at 9pm and I never felt like I would run out of juice on them. I am very disappointed in both the product and the options for a return/exchange that I was given by customer support and would not recommend this particular size. I am not sure that I will get another series 5, maybe the series 6 will be better.

i am 14 hrs in and at 14% left. I did unpair and pair it again, so today isn’t a good test. But I will tomorrow. Apple claims that my battery is almost within their “normal use”. Only problem is when my series 4 hit 10pm, I would be at 50-55-% of my battery left, based on my barely using its. Series 5 would be at 5-9%, a. Difference of around 40% less for Series 5.

I am going to do a new test tomorrow with AOD on and see the results for a full “my normal” day.

There is a 14 day return policy and this may be the first product I bought that I return. There are others that aren’t having problems, so gotta think there is batch of Series 5 that are having problems.

iFixIt took the S5 40mm apart and found a different battety with a 10% greater capacity

Hopefully all the drain problems will be software and fixed soon

https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/26/40mm-apple-watch-series-5-new-battery-design/

I certainly am and have had my watch replaced even. It is exactly the same so I think there’s a problem with this model of watch. I’m using it exactly the same as my series 3, which had about 40% left when I went to bed but this one doesn’t last past 14 hours.

is it only the cellular models I wonder?

I had another call last night with Support and they collected the log files from my phone. My battery again was draining about 5% an hour. With my Series 2, it was only draining about 2-3% an hour. Today I turned off AOD and noise detection. So far I've had my watch on for 3.5 hours and the battery is at 93%, a drain of only 2% an hour. So it appears that maybe the AOD and/or noise detection is the culprit in my situation. I'm curious to hear back from Support regarding their findings on my log files. If they say this is normal, I'll be returning the device and going back to my Series 2.

Feel the software is buggy on the series 5

hopefully they will get enough data to get it fixed

if you return your S5 you might opt for a series 4

Best Buy and others have great discount prices

other than increased memory, a new chip, and compass feature most reviews state the rest of the S5 is S4 guts

in my option The S5 should be called an S4s

I am officially tapping out. I sent back my Series 5 today and reverted back to my Series 4. I will revisit this in a few months and see if things are fixed. I just don't have any more time. I have purchased many many (most) new Apple products since 1980's and this is the first one I have sent back :(

So here is my experience with a new Series 5 watch. The day before yesterday I did a complete Erase and set it up as a new watch, paired with my iPhone 11 Pro due to the ongoing battery issues, hoping that would solve it. It did not. So I did a test today.

Always On: ON, Cellular: Off

08:37: Fully charged - 100%

09:35 : 92% [8%/hr]

Always On: OFF, Cellular Off

09:42: 91%

10:54: 75% [13.3%/hr] yeah w#f?

Always On: OFF, Cellular Off, Background Refresh for all apps: OFF

10:56: 74%

12:03: 59% [13.4%/hr]

*Same as above but hard reboot on watch*

12:08: 56%

12:40: 49% [13.12%/hr]

*Same as above but changed face from California to Numerals Duo with outline font*

12:42: 47%

13:13: 40% [13.5%/hr]

Always On: OFF, Cellular Off, Background Refresh for all apps: OFF, Airplane Mode: ON, California face

13:47: 32%

14:50: 23% [8.6%/hr]

Always On: OFF, Cellular Off, Background Refresh for all apps: OFF, Airplane Mode: ON, California face, EVERYTHING ELSE TURNED OFF (as in notifications, heart rate sensor, activity monitoring, etc)

14:53: 21%

15:51: 10% [11.4%/hr, Power Reserve mode prompt]

I did nothing other than have the watch on my arm. I looked at the display only when taking a measurement so in total not more than 20 times for the 7 hours and 20 minutes it lasted today to get to 10%.

Clearly a bug somewhere. I heard 13.1.1 is out - will see if that works, otherwise I am returning this until they fix it.