Many worry about battery life with smartphones, however, my own personal experience is if you leave the phone in ‘Airplane Mode’ (so it’s not connected to any mobile network) and ‘Do Not Disturb’ (so the screen - the most battery-intensive component - isn’t turning on), you can easily go 24-30 hours recording activities on an iPhone.
Firstly, I’ve mentioned this before when I wrote about our three-day run from Courmayeur to Chamonix: I solely used an iphone for this whole run, my post discussing this topic is here). And therefore the battery life metrics above start to become inaccurate. However, personally, I find that whenever I’m out for a long run (or any run for that matter), I always bring my phone as I want to be able to call someone in the even to an emergency. All of these are taken when there is not a phone nearby. On Apple’s website, using the same data page as above for climbing, they give for an Apple Watch Series 3: Ultra/Trail running with the Apple Watch: battery life What I’d do long-term is swap the strap for something like these stretchy straps you can get on Amazon. And it turns out the standard watch strap of the Apple Watch is rigid so I find that I’m having to loosen it before I start climbing.
One thing I hadn’t considered was what happens when you’re doing sport: with the increased bloodflow as your body is working harder, limbs get slightly fatter. “up to 10 hours indoor workout” Fat Wrists while climbing I can’t confirm exactly however expect to hit the Apple designated specs for a workout of:
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I’m sure if I thought about it, it’s not necessarily critical, however, the data nerd in me would love to know how much vertical distance I cover in any one year.įor indoor climbing, there is a new app, Redpoint, where it’s possible to track vertical height gained using the accelerometer: I’ll update this post later this week once I have tested it properly.Īs for the key question, battery life, the watch is only having to make use of its GPS for an initial location pinpoint so there is a low drain from this, and for the rest, it’s recording heart rate using the onboard tracking. Still, it’s a bit surprising, to say the least. Outdoors, I wonder if it’s recognising that standing beside steep cliffs, or even in big overhangs means that the GPS signal would be rubbish anyway.
Indoors, I suspect it’s quite hard to get accurate measurements with just the accelerometer of how much vertical height has been gained so Apple has just taken the safe approach and just records time and heart rate. Starting with my primary sport, what really surprised me with the Workout app was that it doesn’t record height gained! I’m still amazed at that, although rationally I can see a plausible reason. Rock Climbing with the Apple Watch: battery life
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