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Its still good enough to last all day under any usecase though. What I found with my pebble watch is it would always go flat on me in the middle of the day because I didn't have a real charging schedule. With my AW I just stick it on the charger when I go to sleep and it will never go flat on me.

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This is exactly the issue with "all day vs a week". Schedule.

If you charge the device every night, that's routine. You go to sleep, pop your phone and watch in a charger. Done.

A week-long battery has 1-3 days to remind the user to charge.

2-4 days isn't something you can build a routine on, it's not really a full work week even.

But then it doesn’t track your sleep...

I never found the sleep tracking to be useful. I get enough sleep and the watch doesn't tell me anything particularly interesting. I did it a few times and can see my heart rate overnight but it isn't something that changes day to day.

My Apple Watch (see my response above) has lasted well over a day including sleep tracking, on a single charge. It would go to 2 days if I let it. It’ll be able to track your sleep, just turn the always on screen and several notifications off.

I have everything on on my series 6 LTE. After 23 hours on my wrist it usually at 50%. It is new though. But the screen is always on. It seems they have improved battery life on series 6 comparing with my old series 4.

I should have added this is an Apple Watch 6, as well.

It’s definitely reached a point where I’m not worried, so far. Tomorrow I’m going for a run, so that should be interesting.

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