Apple Watch series 5 battery life

Watch OS 6.0.1

Made it worse on my S4

I won’t update my wife’s S5 until Apple finally fixes it

Do any of you look at the actual usage in settings? It will tell actual standby and real-time usage. And if so what figures are you getting? You can check on the Watch for quickest results.

Do any of you look at the actual usage in settings? It will tell actual standby and real-time usage. And if so what figures are you getting? You can check on the Watch for quickest results.

Mine got lot lot better after 6.1

today I am 30% after 15 hours of use, with 1.5 hours workout.

not bad...

I don’t use my watch that much. With series 4, I would go to bed with 55-60% left in the battery. Since series 5 I have 5-9% left.

tomorrow I am going to try turning off automatic on display and see what happens

nwxt after they is returning it and going back ton series 4, I can’t justify all this money for a compass.

I guess I am not the only one w/ this question. I just read an article that says about 18 hours but that is with a lot of use. I get exactly 18 hours. Others with older versions said from 24 - 36 hours.

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.

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.

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?

The always on display was one of the reasons I upgraded from my Series 3 so there's no way I'm turning that off. :)

My replacement watch seems to be getting just about 16 hours compared to the previous watch where I also only ever got 14 hours out of it.

Mine is a series 4 and I am also experiencing the same issue as the Rdbgolf.

Mine use to last for 2 whole days with ~25% to spare but now it just finished 24 hours with 35% left huge difference from my watchOS 5. Thats after un-pairing and pairing, resetting and deleting all apps, turning off notifications, background refresh and everything that makes a smart watch smart. basically now I am having a regular watch on.

My bet is that something is wrong with watchOS 6 or iOS 13 which causing all these issues.

seems, that each Watch is different. I started my Watch at 6 a.m. with 100%, cellular, headset, music is on. At 7 p.m. it is at 69%. Thats a fine battery condition. Background refresh is off, calendar, iMassage, Mails syncing is on.

So yesterday I completely wiped my iPhone 11 Pro and Watch 5, and set them both up as new devices. I logged in with my apple ID, added a mail account and installed 3 apps I need. The rest is all stock.

Watch drained at a rate of 5.2% per hour (that gives about 19 hours of usage with NOTHING other than wearing it, and AOD on). That is much better than what it was (12-13% per hour). However it is still not what I expected.

Today the watch is draining at a rate of 7.2% per hour so far - not looking good

Only problem is I am at day 12.. So I sure hope Apple releases a fix soon. I had one day where I got 15 hours and still had 60% over... Then I put it on the charger, went to bed, woke up, put it on my wrist and it was back at 10% per hour. So I am rather confident this is a software issue and not hardware.