Watch 3 Pro - Battery Life Discussion

Morghus

My watch pro 3 just had a drop in battery from 90+ to 63% from one night of sleep, and I have sleep tracking running. Is this an intended level of battery usage for a night of sleep tracking?

I’m also curious what might it be that makes the battery of the clock drop over 10% during normal daytime use.

Right now I’m really loving the watch, yet the inconsistent battery usage makes it a potentially unreliable gadget for everyday use

super_user

Same issue here, when it arrived it wasn’t even fully charged and I could easily wear it for a week before it had to be charged again.

Now it won’t even last 4 days before its empty on a full charge.

Its also very sudden, I didn’t change any of the settings yet it showed a big difference in usable hours on a full charge.

Morghus

super_user

That actually sounds good, and bad. Four days isn’t a whole lot. Did you restart the watch at all?

I haven’t let my watch go below 30% because I rely on the notifications at work. I have basic heart rate monitoring and sleep tracking on, a weather widget, and auto on for when I need to look at the watch and notifications.

The watch has so far used up at a minimum of 60% battery every day, which is far too much when I bought it for its purported 13 days. I was hoping for at least five days.

NullContest

Morghus I’ve had a very similar experience in the first few days with my watch. Seems like the battery is not going to last for longer than 1.5 days if I leave the sleep tracking and heart rate on. I’m going to see if decreasing the interval for heart rate to 10 minutes will show much improvement. I was pretty dissapointed that my battery dropped so much when sleeping. It seems like the only way anyone could get advertised the advertised 13 days battery life of the watch would be if they had no features on, never turn on the screen and leave it on battery save mode. With normal use I can’t see it making it more than 2 days right now. Still early so maybe I’m wrong.

MichCMFuser

I noticed similar behavior out of the box, 20% drop overnight. Battery was lasting only about a day and a half, even with heart rate, blood O2, and enhanced sleep tracking turned OFF.

I did a factory reset of the watch from the watch system settings, then manually turned ON 24/7 heart rate, blood O2, and enhanced sleep tracking. Overnight drop was only about 6%, and battery seems like it will last 5-6 days now.

Maybe a stuck process - a reboot (instead of a reset) might have done the trick.

super_user

Yeah, I’ve charged it to 100% and rebooted it. I get a pretty consistent 5 or 6 days of usage before I have to charge it again. I guess it was just a stuck proces or something that had to do with an update.

Its also just a general watch thing I guess, I bought my girlfriend the new Samsung watch because her old one drained extremely fast but the new Samsung Watch 8 literally has 1 to 2 days of battery life out of the box which is absolutely crazy to me. So those 5 or 6 days are a blessing to me! 🤣