{"id":1976,"date":"2015-06-27T20:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T20:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2015-06-27T20:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T20:54:58","slug":"apple-watch-battery-life-mostly-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch battery life: mostly fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/20.166.29.245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1213.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1977\" src=\"http:\/\/20.166.29.245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1213-240x300.png\" alt=\"Apple Watch battery\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1213-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1213.png 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do Apple Watch owners suffer &#8220;range anxiety&#8221;, in the same manner as electric car owners? In my experience, yes, but it fades quite quickly once expectations and experience collide and\u00a0settle down.<\/p>\n<p>For my usage so far &#8211; albeit just a week and a half &#8211; my 42mm watch generally has\u00a0more than 50% left when I hit the sack, having\u00a0been on my wrist\u00a0approx 06:45 to 23:00. Given that I have no qualms at all about charging it every night, that&#8217;s pretty good, and better than a lot of scare stories had led me to expect. Of course if I was going camping for a week it would be utterly useless, but I accept that it&#8217;s just not the right product for that scene.<\/p>\n<p>How much do I really use it though? I don&#8217;t stare at it all day long, especially as the novelty starts to wear off. Apple are correct: its rightful place in the world is for fleeting interactions lasting just a few seconds, and I have quickly\u00a0settled into that very casual relationship with it. Right now, I use it to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>check the time (obviously)<\/li>\n<li>check the weather<\/li>\n<li>to\u00a0see what song is playing on my iPhone when I don&#8217;t recognise it<\/li>\n<li>to see incoming messages and tweets (but very rarely to respond to them)<\/li>\n<li>to snooze\/dismiss calendar alerts<\/li>\n<li>to quickly set a timer for an ad-hoc reminder<\/li>\n<li>to take incoming calls, before getting my iPhone out and switching to that &#8211; but I hope to get out of that habit<\/li>\n<li>for running (much more about that in a future post)<\/li>\n<li>for keeping tabs on general activity via Apple&#8217;s &#8216;Activity&#8217; app with its all-knowing three circles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had one day where the battery ran out prematurely. Very prematurely, at 1830! That morning I&#8217;d gone for a 5km run using Apple&#8217;s built-in &#8216;Workout&#8217; app &#8211; my first and only time with that app so far &#8211; which had knocked the battery down to 84% by 0700. That actually didn&#8217;t seem too bad for the run itself, since it was working hard keeping track of heart rate etc. but I still don&#8217;t understand how it came to expire\u00a0later on, from being a mere\u00a016% down at the start. Perhaps the battery level reporting was poor and when it said 84% it was actually much lower. Indeed when it flaked out, it was reporting 13% so maybe calibration was poor, and maybe I&#8217;m closer to the wire than I think when I go to bed with an apparently healthy percentage left. We&#8217;ll see how future experiments pan out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Apple Watch owners suffer &#8220;range anxiety&#8221;, in the same manner as electric car owners? In my experience, yes, but it fades quite quickly once expectations and experience collide and\u00a0settle down. For my usage so far &#8211; albeit just a week and a half &#8211; my 42mm watch generally has\u00a0more than 50% left when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,15,16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-watch","category-iphone","category-mac","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}