If you’re struggling to make your Watch last a day, read this simple guide

The Apple Watch’s battery life, whether it be Series 1 or Series 2, was significantly improved for a lot of users by watchOS 3.1 and should hopefully get better with watchOS 4 too. But it still requires nightly charging, and if you happen to forget to charge it you’ll be frustrated the next day when it struggles to make it to lunch.

The good news is that there are several ways to quickly and easily extend battery life so that you can stretch past lunch and, if you’re really lucky, until you’re back home.

So if you’re struggling to keep your Apple Watch alive all day, read on for our suggestions.

1. Disable Wake on Wrist Raise

The Apple Watch uses its gyroscope and accelerometer to instantly turn on the display for easy viewing whenever you raise your wrist. Unfortunately, this means that any time you raise your wrist the display will activate. Like when you’re watching a movie, or raising your hand, or stretching. And each time it does, it pings the battery.
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