Swimming kills the battery

[VidJunky]

Not sure how many have taken this watch for a dip but I've found that it is better not to if you plan on having a watch for the rest of the day. The first time I turned on touch sensitivity by mistake thinking it was splash protection. But even with splash protection on the battery drained quickly. Thinking about it now I may have been partially responsible because I was looking at the watch to see if it was awake and almost every time I looked at the watch it was either already lit or would wake up. Even so it still went from in the 40s percent to 12% in around 40 - 45 minutes. That is why I've concluded that it best to not even ware it in the pool. Now splashing or just being in a wet environment, probably not so bad. I just expected more from Samsung's Water Lock, I mean it is called Water Lock. Maybe it is working as designed because I never found it opened to an app or anything.

What has been your experience?

 

[arunma]

Were you connected to your phone? I've never taken my watch for a swim (been meaning to, I just don't swim a lot). But I do go running with it every day. When you're connected to LTE and are streaming Spotify on Bluetooth, the battery does drain quite fast. Are you on LTE and streaming to a Bluetooth speaker, by chance?

 

[VidJunky]

I do believe every time I was disconnected from my phone. I know at least two of the times I was not connected and the third I don't remember. None of the times was I streaming or doing anything on the phone, I was just wearing it at the pool. I only have the BT model.

Not sure if the watch is like a phone in the fact that when it isn't connected to a device it uses a lot of battery searching for a signal. I know phones have that issue when they are not connected to a cellular signal. So I might try it one more time when I know I'm connected to the phone. Not doing anything, just connected.