Smartwatches and fitness trackers · Apple
Owners mainly weigh this watch on battery life, where opinion is divided, and on sleep tracking; the accounts so far say little about what they keep it for.
Owners are divided on battery life, and that is the theme with the most accounts. Slightly more were positive than negative, with some saying a short top-up on the charger gets them through the day.
Sleep tracking drew more complaints than praise, though only a handful of owners raised it. The sampled complaints describe sleep data going wrong or disappearing after a software change, and slowly recovering over weeks or months.
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We can't describe a typical day with this watch yet. The accounts we have are mostly about battery life, and they don't agree. Some owners say a brief charge, such as while showering, is enough. Others say the battery wore down until it needed charging every day, and one said it ran out partway through a long hike with music and navigation on.
Water resistance came up too rarely to judge. A few owners said routine showers and swimming caused no problems, and one said a watch died after being in the sea. None of the accounts describe what becomes routine or what owners had to adjust to over time.
Little here describes how this watch holds up. The sleep tracking complaints are about data that stopped showing or became erratic after an app or software change. Owners said they reverted the change or waited, and in some cases it improved over months. On the hardware side, the accounts mention battery degradation over time and one water-damage failure, and nothing else.
The long-term evidence is thin, and you should read it with care. Few owners raised each theme. Many of the sampled comments name other watches with a 3 in the name, not the Apple Watch 3, so they may not describe this product. Treat everything above as unconfirmed for this model until more accounts that clearly name it come in.
Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.
Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
28 more subjects came up from fewer than 4 owners each, which is not enough for a fair reading. To see how it stacks up, compare it with another machine.
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Among the 0 owner accounts here that gave a duration, 0 described a failure.
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