The Apple Watch is widely considered to be the best smartwatch out there, even though it doesn’t work with Android phones. Personally, I had never used an Apple Watch until a couple weeks ago when I started using our Series 5 unit as my smartwatch of choice with my iPhone.
You’re not entirely wrong if that’s the impression you have about the Apple Watch. The Series 5 I’m using (GPS only) easily goes through the day with Always On Display turned on. That’s when my usual day starts from around 7AM to 10PM. In that time, the watch is anywhere between 50 to 60% when I place it back on that magnetic cradle.
I won’t blame you if you were thinking you could just charge it the next morning before heading out to work, but the Series 5 just doesn’t charge fast enough.
Sure, there’s an argument to be made about someone needing to keep a track of their sleeping habits, and considering the amount of attention Apple pays to making sure the Apple Watch is a great fitness companion (it really is), it seems like sleep tracking should be somewhere high-up on their to-do list for watchOS.
- The battery needs to last much longer, or,
- The watch needs to charge considerably faster than it does.
See, if the battery on the Apple Watch lasted, say, 3 days, sleep tracking would be great. You wear your watch continuously for three days, including while you sleep, and then one night you let it charge. Sure you don’t get sleep data for one night, but it’s better than not getting sleep data ever.
Apple Needs to Up the Apple Watch’s Battery Life
Everything said and done, I have to say I really love the Apple Watch, and it’s not just based on the merits of this watch as a device (even though it has a lot of those individual merits), it’s also because I am deep into the Apple ecosystem right now, and the Apple Watch works seamlessly with everything else I use.
