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  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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?

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          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.

    • jdeath@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      my son is still rocking my Series 0 just fine! it’s not the most amazing but it still works