How To Check The Battery Life Of Your Apple Watch

The battery on the Apple Watch can last for up to 18 hours, as long as all of the optimal conditions are met. However, if you use the watch a lot, you might expect a shorter period of time.

There are several ways to check the amount of juice the watch has left, read on to find out about them:

How To Check Apple Watch Battery Life While You Are Wearing It

Here is how you can check the watch’s battery life while you are wearing it or it is in your hand:

Step 1: Swipe up from the bottom to the top of the watch’s face and then type in the passcode when the watch asks you to.

Step 2: You should now see the Control Center of WatchOS. Tap on the icon that looks like a percentage.

Step 3: You will see a percentage representing the level of power left and a button that reads Power Reserve. Now you need to slide the button to the right to access the Power Reserve Mode, which turns off all the features except for the time clock.

How To Check The Battery Life Of The Apple Watch On Your iPhone

If you are on the iPhone and want to check the Apple Watch’s battery life, head to the watch’s app to do so.

Step 1: To access the app, swipe right from the home screen and type in the passcode or use Touch ID.

Step 2: You should now see the iOS Widgets. Scroll down and find the label that reads Batteries, which shows the remaining battery level of both devices, the iPhone and the connected Apple Watch.

How To Check Apple Watch Battery Life While It Is Being Charged

When the watch is plugged in, you can also check how much it has been juiced up to decide whether to remove it from the charger.

Step 1: Whenever the watch is in the Nightstand mode or the charger, you will see a symbol of a lightning bolt, tap on the icon.

Step 2: Now you should see the time and the same lightning bolt in miniature. Now tap on it again to see the battery level in numerical format.

How To Check With Battery Usage Stats

If you want to check information like the last time the watch is charged in full, the Power Reserve mode, or the Standby mode, the battery usage stats are where to find them.

Step 1: From your iPhone home screen, launch the Watch app.

Step 2: Scroll down to find General and tap on it.

Step 3: You should see the General settings of your Watch. Now scroll down and choose Usage.

Step 4: When the Usage interface is shown, you might need to wait for a few minutes for the information to be synced from the Apple Watch to the iPhone, be patient. After the loading indicator disappears, the screen will be filled with data. The Standby and Usage indicators are at the bottom of the list, so scroll down to find them.

What you see here is a time the watch has been used and how long it has been in the standby mode, from the last time the watch is fully charged.

You will also see an estimation for the Power reserve Mode, which is initiated when the watch is close to a flat battery, forcing it to turn off all functions except for the time displayed on its face until it is charged again.