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Making it even less economical to replace the battery doesn’t sound very green. Although I guess you can sleep soundly knowing the electricity the Apple Watch used in its short two years of life has been carbon offset. And, in fairness to apple, I’m pretty sure battery replacement involves tossing, I mean recycling, the main unit and giving you a new one.
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.
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?
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.
