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The battery on the Ultra 2 is so great compared to my old Series 7. I think I could get just shy of 3 days/72 hours of proper usage (this was including 1 hour of an outdoor walk being tracked, and 1 hour of tradtional strength workout in the workouts app) if I played my cards right. Charged to 95% on Sunday night 8:10pm, now at 6:50pm on Tuesday night and it’s still got 1/3 charge left. Their 36 hours was VERY kind.

The only settings I have changed are;

  • turning off detect gym equipment
  • disabled some background app refresh apps (but not entirely), and
  • an automation to disable “wake to raise” when I am at work.

Brightness is set to default 2/3 and I have most notifications turned off (messages is about all that come through).

I am stoked, I no longer have any battery paranoia compared to having to set my old watch to cinema mode while I was at the gym after work because I had 15% battery left.