How to Check Your Apple Watch’s Current Battery Life

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If you need to figure out how to check your Apple Watch’s battery life or battery percentages, you’ve come to the right place.

There are various built-in methods to check your wearable’s battery. Here’s everything you need to know.

How to Check Your Apple Watch’s Battery Life

There are actually two general methods for checking your Apple Watch’s battery life without using watch face complications, which we’ll get into later.

Check Battery Life Systemwide

  1. Swipe up from the bottom of your Apple Watch’s display.
  2. You’ll see a battery percentage here. Pretty simple.
  3. As a side tip, you can also tap the percentage and drag the Power Reserve slider to enter Power Reserve mode.

Check Battery Life While Charging

  1. Plug your Apple Watch charger into an outlet, computer, external battery, or even a 2018 iPad Pro (via the new Apple Watch to USB-C charger).
  2. Place your Apple Watch face-up on the magnetic charging puck.
  3. Once you see a little lightning icon animation, your Watch will be charging.
  4. Tap the lightning icon in the top left-hand corner to see the current battery percentage.

It’s worth noting that the Apple Watch will also enter Nightstand mode if left on the charger for a set amount of time. This mode displays the current date, time and charge automatically.

You can enable or disable this on your Watch. Just go to Settings > General > Nightstand and tap on it.

How to Add a Battery Percentage Complication to your Apple Watch

If you’re so inclined, you can also add a complication to various watch faces that displays the current battery percentage.

This is especially convenient if you’d like a quick, at-a-glance way of checking your battery — akin to what iOS or macOS offers.

You can do so through the Watch app on iOS, or on your Apple Watch itself. Not all Apple Watch faces support a battery indicator, but many of them do — so just experiment until you find one you like.

Add a Battery Complication on iPhone

  1. Open the Watch app on your connected iPhone.
  2. At the top of this screen, you’ll see a list of current watch faces. You can swipe through this list until you see the want you’d like to use.
  3. Tap on any watch face to select it.
  4. From here, you’ll be presented with a variety of ways to edit the watch face — including specific details, color options and complications.
  5. Find a battery percentage complication and tap the Plus icon to add it to your currently selected watch face.

Add a Battery Complication on Apple Watch

  1. Press the Digital Crown to go to your current watch face (you can also swipe left or right here to select a different face).
  2. Firmly press on the Apple Watch display
  3. Swipe left or right to choose a new face and tap Customize on the one you want.
  4. Swipe all the way to the left to edit complications.
  5. Tap on an individual complication to select it.
  6. Use the Digital Crown to change the complication until you get a battery percentage indicator.
  7. When you’re done, just press the Digital Crown to wrap up.
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