by Hartley Charlton
The Apple Watch Series 11 features the device's first ever decisive battery life increase, reaching a full 24-hours.
Since the Apple Watch was first unveiled in 2014, it has featured what Apple called an "all-day" 18-hour battery life through each successive generation until now. With the Series 11, battery life reaches 24 hours. The Apple Watch SE 3 continues to feature an 18-hour battery life.
This significant increase comes despite the Apple Watch Series 11 featuring the same casing and chip as the Series 10, so it is not entirely clear where efficiency savings or changes have been made to obtain a longer battery life.
The Apple Watch Series 11 also supports fast charging, with just 15 minutes providing up to eight hours of battery life.
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Top Rated Comments
QCassidy352
1 hour ago at 02:04 pm
Insufficient compared to the competition. Garmins, Coros and even the Pixel and Galaxy watches all match or exceed this rating. Garmins and Coros by a lot.
Garmin is a fitness watch with some smartwatch features. AW is a smartwatch that can do fitness. Both great devices but not the same device. Totally different power requirements. I really wish people would stop with this silly comparison.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
vertsix
2 hours ago at 01:41 pm
Insufficient compared to the competition. Garmins, Coros and even the Pixel and Galaxy watches all match or exceed this rating. Garmins and Coros by a lot.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tomtad
2 hours ago at 01:43 pm
Insufficient compared to the competition. Garmins, Coros and even the Pixel and Galaxy watches all match or exceed this rating. Garmins and Coros by a lot.
Pixel Watch is 24 hours
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
JPack
2 hours ago at 01:47 pm
Wonder if this might be a watchOS 26 improvement.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
BelgianChoklit
2 hours ago at 01:47 pm
Pixel Watch is 24 hours
I'm not sure the comparisons with Garmins is a good comparison, heard the other day a Garmin user saying they don't do as much... i'll have to find the reply to see what exactly but apparently can't really be compared
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
G5isAlive
1 hour ago at 02:16 pm
Insufficient compared to the competition. Garmins, Coros and even the Pixel and Galaxy watches all match or exceed this rating. Garmins and Coros by a lot.
My Timex beats the Garmins by even more than a lot. What Timex is not Garmin's competition. My point exactly. Let me know when Garmin lets me reply to my email and text messages with more than a preset response, then call it the competition.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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