Apple Watch Battery Life (Series 3)

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Apple Watch Battery Life (Series 3)

My wife currently has an Apple Watch Series 3. She has owned this for about 1.5 years. The apple watch battery charge will last about half a day. Apple store technician checked the watch today and said Battery was at 93% capacity. They unpaired watch and reset, but this did not solve issue - battery still draining quickly. We've run through settings options (available online) unsuccessfully able to move the needle with battery life. Not sure how the apple watch could have 93% battery capacity yet not hold a charge.

This is my wife's second apple watch. She experienced pre-mature (early life) battery issues with her first watch.

Prior to apple watch, she owned several Fitbits. She experienced pre-mature battery failures with all of her Fitbits as well.

She has experienced this pattern of pre-mature battery failures in every fitness device she has owned. We fully recognize she may be causing these issues, but not sure what could be the behavior leading to batter issues. Just trying to see if anyone has experienced similar issues or if there is a known issue out there.

We can think of one potential cause. She teaches exercise classes and will build up a pretty good sweat. Doesn't make sense as watch/fitbits are water resistant.

Can anyone suggest any ways to troubleshoot this?

Thanks!

Apple Watch Series 3

Posted on Jun 4, 2023 9:21 AM

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Answer 1

LD150

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Jun 5, 2023 11:50 AM in response to Rich.Young

As lg1 says, speed of burn is often due to heavy usage .

Three ways it may be burning excess

Too many workouts in a day, which she can expedite by applying fewer heart readings in workouts settings, or just let the normal sensors outside workouts tally the calories. Whenever that little workout yellow circle shows at 12 o'clock the sensors are reading your wrist.,
One or more apps on iphone is burning battery due to internal or external traffic or processing, VPN or antivirus for example. The ultimate duagnostic runs the Watch with an empty iphone.
Leaky battery, rare but I have diagnosed three in the last six months

All these and more are covered in the link

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Answer 2

Jun 5, 2023 7:58 AM in response to Rich.Young

Is she using the watch to track the classes she teaches all day long? If she is, this would pretty much explain why the battery isn't lasting all day.

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Answer 3

LD150

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Jun 5, 2023 2:07 AM in response to Rich.Young

If she runs a workout during every session she teaches then it may not last the day.

93% cspacity is very good for 18 months, but there is an overnight battery test in the following amongst an ultimate iphone reset diagnostic.

Apple Watch uses a LOT of battery - Apple Community

Personally, I would trade it in against an SE2022

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Rich.Young Author

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Jun 5, 2023 7:07 AM in response to LD150

Thank you very much for the insights and suggestions. We'll try these options and share results.

Just to be clear, the apple technician reported battery capacity at 93%, but the watch won't hold a charge for more than ~6 hours. It's hard to reconcile these different metrics.

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Rich.Young Author

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Jun 5, 2023 11:54 AM in response to LD150

USAGE: She only teaches 4-5 1 hour classes per week.

The battery drain occurs even when she is not using the exercise tracking and/or other draining apps.

Tried all of the shared and online remedies to limit apps and battery draining activities. No change.

Going to test for battery leakage tonight.

Thanks!!

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Apple Watch Battery Life (Series 3)

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