Battery consumption while playing music is higher than advertise

So I use Spotify synched to my watch to play my music. Yesterday, while on a 30 min run the watch used up 9%. That would be 18% per hour which is higher than advertised. My question is could that be how I have setup the "Audio Quality" on the spotify App. For Audio quality I have it set to "very high" for WIFI and Cellular. Not sure what setting is used for downloading to watch and how to set that audio quality but it stands to reason that the higher the quality the more data being sent to the headset. Does anyone have more detail on how to set the quality and whether on not that can influence the watch battery usage during music playing?

0 jaamgans over 3 years ago

What were your settings and potentially your firmware version as that can make a major difference (not sure if the changes they recently made with 7.35 may have affected battery life).

Quoted battery life is All Systems + Music - 10hrs (9hrs with AOD on). So if you had multi-band on too (which is 20hrs - 15hrs AOD on vs All at 32hrs - 24hrs AOD on i.e.) which further reduces battery life by 38% - it would make it 6hrs (5hrs AOD) -- so if you are using mult-band that would then very likely tie in with the 18% per hour! So maybe its estimates are correct?

0 avikoren1 over 3 years ago in reply to jaamgans

Multi band NOT used.

0 avikoren1 over 3 years ago in reply to avikoren1

Anyone else use Spotify while running can chime in with their consumption? Curious if I am the only one getting less then 6 hours instead of the advertised 9 to 10 hours.