7 Ways to Improve Apple Watch Battery Life By Cult of Mac

What's going on everybody IAN here for growth of mac, and if you guys are anything like me, you want the most battery life out of your Apple Watch, so you can do the most with it and, while most apple watches, have no problem lasting. You know from when you wake up in the morning until when you go to bed in the evening, if you want to use it for things like sleep tracking or extended workouts, or anything like that, having a little of extra battery life can be really important. There's a few really key tricks to getting better battery life out of your device if you're having a hard time making it through a full 24 hours. The first step on the list is to make sure your Apple Watch. Software is fully up-to-date. Now, especially when you have big point releases like watch OS 7 that just happened or in a watch 6 last year.

Anything like that. Those big point releases tend to have some bugs and little glitches in them early on that kind of make the battery life, not so great, so make sure you have watches up to date and on the latest version, a lot of times that will solve any battery life issues you're having now, if your watch is fully up-to-date, another thing to do is just restart your Apple Watch and restart your iPhone. That's paired to the watch. Sometimes something gets caught up in the background. A process is kind of hung up.

You know, either in a sync between the two or something running on the watch gets a little hung up and just rebooting. Both devices can take care of any weird. You know kind of battery drain, sync issues that are happening and solve a weird battery draining problem. Now I've personally found it really helpful to restart my watch. Every couple days restart my phone at the same time, because then everything just seems to work a little better.

Another thing you can try is to start taming the notifications on your device, so you're actually looking at the device. A little less frequently if every single alert from every app on your phone is also breaking up. Your watch causing you to look at your watch. You're waking up the screen. More often the haptics are running more often the sound is possibly playing more often and those are all things that are going to drain down on the battery.

So by going into the Apple Watch app and actually just turning off notifications for apps that you don't need notifications for on your wrist, you can potentially save a bunch of battery life without much difficulty. Now, one of the biggest culprits for battery life drain for me personally in the past, has been some weird kind of buggy apps that I've put on my Apple Watch, specifically apps, that tend to want to use either your health data or your location data, or something that's constantly refreshing or trying to keep data up to date. In the background, those can actually put a pretty big strain on the battery of your Apple Watch and that's because they're constantly communicating across to the phone constantly trying to get new information to display that, for you and in doing that, they're going to just drain more battery because they're, actively working in the background by going into the Apple Watch app and turning off or uninstalling, or moving those apps from your watch. You're not going to have that excess drain on the watch for apps that you're never going to use there anyway. Another thing that can really put a toll on your Apple Watch's battery is the fact that Siri is always there and listening by turning off either the raise to speak or even the hey Siri thing on your Apple Watch.

Those can both save on battery because the microphones aren't constantly listening for you to start speaking. The one that I found the most draining on the battery is the raise to speak feature because every time you flip your watch over it starts listening for you to say the wake word and that can put a little of a strain on the battery of your watch. When I turn that off, I saw about a seven or eight percent difference over the course of a day which may not sound like a lot, but that could be the difference between making it to the end of the day and not making it to the end of the day. So, by turning off that raise to speak feature, you can save a little of battery life, and if you really want to get crazy about it, you can also turn off the hay incantation to even tame back even more, and you can still summon Siri by just pressing on the digital crown. Now another feature you could turn off.

If you were looking to save some battery life is the always-on display feature, and this only applies to the Apple Watch Series 5 and series 6 owners, but for those of you who are having a little of a battery issue, you may not need to have the actual display, always on, especially if you're, trying to maximize your battery life in turning off the always on display. You can save 20 to 30 percent of your battery life every day, which is a huge, huge difference now. The final way that can possibly fix your battery life on your Apple Watch. If none of those other tricks work, is the option that none of us really want to do and that's to actually fully reset and unpair your watch and then pair it back up with your phone in doing this any kind of weird craft or stuff, that's happened in the background between those two devices is completely reset. Everything starts from scratch.

You can either you know, restore from a backup if you want or possibly even start fresh on, your Apple Watch, which gives you the best chance of maximizing your battery life. It is worth noting that those first couple days after you do a reset battery life may not be better because it's still kind of finalizing some things, but assuming that everything goes well, your battery life should improve after a full reset enough resetting your watch and trying every single one of those features makes no difference at all in your Apple Watch's battery life. It's definitely time to contact apple and see if there's something that they can do to help, there's no guarantee that they'll do anything other than recommend you buy a new battery or buy a new Apple Watch, but it's worth contacting them anyway, just to see if there's anything they can do. Hopefully, this was helpful with you guys. Let me know what you think in the comments down below why you're down there give the video a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you're not already, and until next time, I'm IAN for call to mac I'll catch you in the next one.

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