Making it even less economical to replace the battery doesn’t sound very green. Although I guess you can sleep soundly knowing the electricity the Apple Watch used in its short two years of life has been carbon offset. And, in fairness to apple, I’m pretty sure battery replacement involves tossing, I mean recycling, the main unit and giving you a new one.
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Two years? Where did you get that from? I’ve been using an Apple Watch 4 daily since its its launch at the beginning of 2019. Battery health is at 82%, lasting a day at least it’s about to get WatchOS 10 - I don’t see myself getting rid of this thing any time soon.
my son is still rocking my Series 0 just fine! it's not the most amazing but it still works
It was mostly tongue-in-cheek. But I was basing it off 500 charge cycles which is what the iPhone battery is rated for. I just checked and the Apple Watch battery is rated for 1000 cycles so that’s about three years. I’m impressed that your watch battery is still lasting a day, do you use sleep tracking? And do you think your Apple Watch would still last a day if you did 45 minutes of outdoor activity using GPS?
Ah, sorry, didn’t spot the tongue position. No, I don’t wear it in bed. I did a 4 hour cycle with it last weekend though, and though it was grumbling about me needing to charge it before bed - it made it to midnight. So I would say long GPS sessions do tax it, but my regular 40 monute runs don’t bother it much.
That’s great to hear. I‘ve had an Apple Watch SE for 2.5 years but it was replaced on warranty a year ago. I noticed, before it was replaced, that the battery life was still usable but had declined noticeably. Hopefully I’ll get a good few years out of the warranty replacement.
Funny - my original series 0 apple watch still gets the same amount of time as it did when I bought it on release day.
Me thinks you doth complain too much.
I had the same experience. I even gave my series 1 to my mom after I upgraded this year. It lasted me a long time, but I wanna swim with my watch, dammit. That being said my friend had the series 6 and said the battery life degraded massively after a year.
Same. I’m using a 7 now - my wife is still on my 0 - and I’ve no issues with the battery on the 7; I still get 1.25-1.5 days for a charge.
I think if you run the battery down to zero, every day, like on an iPhone or an EV, it’s going to degrade the batteries. I’m still using an iPhone 11, and getting again over a days use on charge. I don’t know if everyone can say that, but I’ve been really careful with never going under 20% for the battery before charging. That’s kind of how we just do lithium ion these days.
Honestly I charged my series one like every 2-3 days. It’s still got a day and a half of battery life.
That’s impressive, honestly. Mine expanded after four years and I replaced it before moving onto a heavily discounted series 5 1.5 years later.
Like I said to the other fella, I got up to the series 7 before my wife took it and carried on. I bought an EV about three years ago, and for the two years before that, I read everything I could about lithium ion batteries, so I’m really cautious and careful with my tools. I know who a lot of people don’t want to think about that, but hey… It’s your money.
Damn I can't pay more coz I never switched to smart watch. What a loss 😪