Apple Watch Ultra: How to Get Up to 60 Hours of Battery Life - MacRumors

Apple Watch Ultra models precocious gained caller low-power settings that tin widen artillery beingness up to 60 hours connected a azygous charge, oregon what Apple calls "multi-day escapade artillery life." This nonfiction explains however it works and however to acceptable it up.

When Apple introduced the ‌Apple Watch Ultra‌ successful September, 1 of the touted features was that it boasts the champion artillery beingness of immoderate Apple Watch, susceptible of reaching up to 36 hours during mean use. Given that successive Apple Watch Series models person lone ever officially offered up to 18 hours ("all-day") artillery beingness successful mean use, it was beauteous large news.

While watchOS 9 brought a new Low Power Mode to Apple Watch Series 4 and aboriginal models that besides offers up to 36 hours of battery, Apple promised to bring further low-power settings to Apple Watch Ultra successful the autumn that would widen artillery beingness adjacent further and marque it susceptible of reaching up to 60 hours.

Since then, Apple has released watchOS 9.1 and the institution has followed done connected its promise, allowing Ultra owners to eke adjacent much beingness retired of their timepiece. The steps beneath explicate however to alteration it, but earlier you tin marque usage of the caller feature, you'll request to marque definite your Apple Watch Ultra is updated to watchOS 9.1 oregon later.

In the Watch app connected your iPhone, spell to General -> Software Update. If you're not already up to date, hold for the update to appear, past pat Download and Install. Make definite your Apple Watch has astatine slightest 50% complaint and is connected to its charger portion the update process completes.

Get 60-Hour Battery Life connected Apple Watch Ultra

To execute the extended artillery life, Ultra models indispensable archetypal person workout settings enabled for less bosom complaint and GPS readings. Here's however to alteration them. (Note that these settings are besides disposable connected Apple Watch Series 8 and second-generation Apple Watch SE, but Apple has not stated that they volition widen artillery beingness connected these models beyond the 36 hours offered by the system-wide Low Power Mode.)

1. Launch the Settings app connected your Apple Watch Ultra.
2. Scroll to the bottommost and pat Workout.
3. Toggle connected the power adjacent to Low Power Mode.
4. Below "During Low Power Mode," toggle connected the power adjacent to Fewer GPS and Heart Rate Readings.

Apple says that with the supra settings enabled, Low Power Mode preserves artillery beingness lone during walking, running, and hiking workouts, by reducing the frequence of GPS and bosom complaint readings (heart complaint readings are reduced to erstwhile per minute, portion GPS readings are reduced to erstwhile each 2 minutes) and turning disconnected alerts, splits, and segments. In different words, this means that to get the afloat 60 hours of artillery life, you'll request to alteration Low Power Mode extracurricular of workouts arsenic well.

• How to Enable Low Power Mode connected Apple Watch

When acceptable up successful this manner, Ultra users tin expect to get "up to" 60 hours of artillery beingness from their smartwatch. This fig is calculated based connected 15 hours of workout, implicit 600 clip checks, 35 minutes of app use, 3 minutes of talk, and 15 hours of slumber tracking, implicit the people of 60 hours, according to Apple.