Righto Brian, thanks for that, will check with Mum on doing that - if she even knows how to will be the hard part. I certainly don't but I am sure knowing Apple gear it will be intuitive.
Kind Regards Peter Crisp ----- Original Message ----- From: wamug@wamug.org.au To: Cc: Sent:Wed, 8 Jan 2020 13:39:35 +0800 Subject:Re: Apple Watch 5 - battery preservation Hello Peter My wife had the same issue, try lowering the display brightness. Brian Risbey OS13.3👨🏻💻☕️ > On 8 Jan 2020, at 12:54, Peter Crisp wrote: > Happy New Year folks. I am assuming some of you have an Apple Watch (which ever revision you have maybe matters) but I arranged a Apple Watch 5 for my 85yo Mum as a means of providing ready to hand communication and the emergency services call up feature it has. She's slowly getting used to it. I reviewed the online Apple information about typical battery life and with normal usage (the online site provides details about what constitutes normal) should yield around 18 hours before needing recharge from a full "overnight charge" - it states. Well, Mum hardly knows how to use it so is basically only looking at it occasionally for telling the time and the occasional incoming text is about all of the actual activity and she finds she is getting
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