Google breaks down what Pixel Watch usage gets you 24 hours of battery life - 9to5Google

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Google officially says you tin get 24 hours of artillery beingness from the Pixel Watch’s 294 mAh artillery and present provides an authoritative breakdown of however it got to that number.

At launch, Google’s good people conscionable said that the “maximum artillery beingness is approximate and is based connected investigating utilizing pre-production hardware and software.”

Charging times are approximate. Use of definite features volition alteration artillery life. Battery beingness depends connected features enabled, usage, situation and galore different factors. Actual artillery beingness whitethorn beryllium lower.

The “Charge Google Pixel Watch and amended artillery life” nonfiction has now been updated to explicate that the “24 hr artillery beingness is based connected the pursuing usage”:

240 notifications
280 clip checks
A 5 min LTE telephone call.
45 min LTE and GPS workout with downloaded YouTube euphony playback
50 minutes of navigation (Google Maps) portion connected to a telephone via Bluetooth
The ticker configured with the default settings, including the Always-on show acceptable to off

This fig being derived from the Always-on show being disabled is notable, particularly since the “Updates” provender successful the Pixel Watch app prompts users astir the AOD aft set-up. In practice, we’ve easy gotten implicit 24 hours of artillery beingness with the AOD on. It’s besides imaginable to get a afloat time of usage with it on, but bash not expect anymore aft that.

Apple has agelong provided similar information for its Watch (emphasis ours):

All-day artillery beingness is based connected the pursuing use: 90 clip checks, 90 notifications, 45 minutes of app use, and a 60-minute workout with euphony playback from Apple Watch via Bluetooth, implicit the people of 18 hours; Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS) usage includes transportation to iPhone via Bluetooth during the full 18-hour test; Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS + Cellular) usage includes a full of 4 hours of LTE transportation and 14 hours of transportation to iPhone via Bluetooth implicit the people of 18 hours.