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Samsung Galaxy Watch 4

Owners keep the Galaxy Watch 4 for its smart features and health tracking, but many end up charging it every single night and staying away from the pool.

Read from 22 owner accountsUpdated September 24, 2026Thin evidence: 22 owner accounts so far, fewer than the 40 we want before we trust a pattern.Compare it

What keeps coming up

Owners did not raise a praised theme with enough accounts on this product; the two recurring themes on record, battery life and water resistance, are both concerns.

Recurring in 7 of 22 accounts · See accounts

What keeps coming up against it

Battery life is a clear complaint: most owners who raised it say they have to charge the watch every day, and some gave up on it or switched to another brand because of it.

Recurring in 7 of 22 accounts · See accounts
Life with it

Once the setup phase is over, daily charging becomes the routine that owners plan around. Several say they forget to put the watch back on in the morning after taking it off to charge overnight, and one owner said the battery drain was the reason the watch sat mostly unused.

Showering or swimming with the watch is something owners learn to stop doing. More than one account describes the watch failing after a swim or a shower, with the seal around the back sensor breaking down and water getting into the display.

Reliability & repairs

The main failure pattern owners describe is water getting past the seal on the back of the watch, sometimes after pool chemicals or salt water, sometimes just from a shower. When that happens, the touch display or the sensor can stop working, and one owner was quoted a very high price for a display replacement. Warranty claims for water damage have also been turned down.

The accounts here are short-term: owners describing what went wrong, not how the watch performed over years of use. There isn't enough in the record to say how a Galaxy Watch 4 that stays dry and gets recharged daily holds up over the long run.

More detail
What owners praise, where they are split, and the follow-up timeline

What owners praise

Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.

Where owners have concerns

  • battery life5 of 7who raised it
  • water resistance4 of 4who raised it

Where owners are split

  • durability2 for · 2 against · 0 mixedof 4 who raised it

Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.

6 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.

Does it still kick?

2 weeks3 months6 months1 year2 years

The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.

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Where this came from

Where this came from

Public discussions we read and summarised in our own words. Nothing here was submitted to Still Kicks.

Counted from public accounts by people who said they own it, and summarised by Still Kicks in its own words. Not a manufacturer claim, a lab test or an estimate.

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