With a release Watch 7, Apple added the Battery Health feature to the Apple Watch similar to those found in iPhones and iPads running iOS 11.3 and later. In other words, the battery status feature provides information about the device’s battery and includes an option called “Optimized Battery Charging”, which has been specifically designed to extend battery life for Apple Watch. Here's how to activate this feature, and what is the best way to use it? How to find out the health of the Apple Watch battery?


Improved battery charging feature on the Apple Watch

When optimized charging is enabled, the watch uses artificial intelligence in it to understand the daily charging pattern and its habits, for example, if you regularly charge your watch at night while you sleep, it will stop charging at 80% and then wait an hour or so before you wake up. The remaining 20 percent will be charged.

This preserves the watch's battery in an optimal way by reducing the amount of time the battery spends on the charger and charging has completed 100%, and this may be dangerous to the battery and thus reduce its life over time.

Feature is designed Enhanced Shipping To activate only in the locations where you spend most of the time, such as your home and workplace, where it is charged to 80%, then wait for a while and resume charging later, and this matter may not work at times, as you may be traveling and want your battery charged 100% and without Interruption of charging process, waiting etc. It is best not to turn this feature on when your usage habits are more varied.

Therefore, some site settings should be enabled to activate “Improved battery charging”In them, and they are automatically disabled in other areas. For your information, none of the location information that is used for this feature is sent to Apple.

Here is a list of the settings that you must enable to use the enhanced charging feature:

◉ Privacy> Location services, then activate location services.

◉ Privacy> Location Services> System Services> System Customization.

◉ Privacy> Location Services> System Services> Important Sites and then activate the Important Sites.

Battery optimized charging is enabled by default on Apple Watch running watchOS 7. If you need to fully charge it sooner than usual and want to disable optimized battery charging, follow these next simple steps.

◉ Press the Digital Crown to bring up the App view.

Choose the Settings app.

◉ Scroll down and select Battery.

◉ Scroll down and select Battery Status or Battery Health.

◉ Enable Optimized Battery Charging.

◉ Press stop playback or stop playback until tomorrow.

To re-enable Enhanced Battery Charging on the Apple Watch at any time, just repeat the above steps and disable the Optimized Charging option.


Check the health of the Apple Watch battery

Note that the Battery Health or Battery Status screen contains useful additional information about the Apple Watch battery, which you can use to determine whether or not it needs to be replaced.

Gives you a percentageMaximum capacity“A measure of the capacity and capacity of the battery compared to when it was brand new. If the maximum capacity percentage drops, you will likely get less Apple Watch usage time between each charge. In other words, it is an indicator of how your battery is performing overall and is directly related to how long your watch lasts on a single charge.

And to check battery health for Apple Watch on watchOS 7

◉ Press the Digital Crown to bring up the App view.

◉ Open the Settings app.

◉ Scroll down, then tap the Battery option.

◉ Tap on Battery Health option.

◉ The maximum capacity of your watch battery will be displayed.

Do you have an Apple Watch and have updated to watchOS 7? And are you turning on the enhanced charging feature? Let us know in the comments.

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