Apple Watch series 5 battery life

4 hours in to my day, just sitting in front of my computer working, and I am at 47%. That is 13.25% per hour, or less than 8 hour battery life.

Another update:

2 hours with AOD off, 8% (no real activity, but I did take a call)

46 min with AOD on, 7% lost (no activity)

I have about another hour of work. Have AOD back on.

I could care less about Noise meter or the compass. What I really cared about was AOD. So far it's a complete bust. If this doesn't live up to the hype, there's no reason for me to even switch from the series 3.

My Titanium Series 5 has the same problem. I’ve got a Series 2 that has better battery life! I’m contacting Apple support tomorrow and if they can’t resolve this I’m returning it as I’m not paying this much to be there R&D.

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 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 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 :(

Thanks for that. I sure hope they fix it soon as my replacement watch doesn't seem to be any better. Other than the battery life I'm loving my series 5 as it's definitely an upgrade from my Series 3.

Wow I hope that is true. Applied 13.1.1, rebooted, in 3:30 my watch drained 35%. That is still 10% per hour, meaning in 10 hours it will be dead. I did NOTHING on the watch, always on was on, so too all radios etc but I did not use the watch. Let's hope.

Yes, from day 1, the battery life has been much poorer than my Series 4. Have the GPS+Cellular in both (cellular not activated), so the comparison is apples to apples! Not what was expected for sure :(

did all of that and still my watch drains all the battery in one day or less despite it having nothing installed, no apps in background refreshing or nor, nor complicated faces, nothing what so ever that makes a smart watch smart.

and I barely make a 24 hour. compare that to watchOS 5 where I was able to go through 48 hours or complex complications, apps in background that I had no idea what they do, app refresh and the whole lot and still I would be left with 30 to 20% of battery life at the end of the 48 hours.

I have cellular, not using it on series 4 after about 3 pairs, unpairs, resets etc. the battery has returned to baseline. A glitch I cannot correct as for the name given the watch but aside from that, seems to function well.

stainless GPS + cellular series 5 here. cellular off, app refresh off, AOD off, dark watch face, only using 4 complications....at noon I was at 52% after an all night charge.

is there any hope for this???

My Apple Watch 4 usually had about 1/3 of its battery left when I went to bed. My new watch 5 is down to 10% by dinner time. I have all the same apps and I haven’t been using any new features (at least not intentionally). This morning I have done nothing but sit at my desk using my iPad, but the watch 5 down to 87% by 9am. This is definitely not what was advertised nor is it at all acceptable. I should have saved the packaging so I can return it. Big step backwards for Apple Watch