Apple Watch “you forgot to charge me overnight” notification?

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Is there a way to get my Apple Watch to notify me first thing in the morning that it’s not charged? I’ve had a couple of instances recently where the watch wasn’t properly touching the charger, so when I woke up, it had only 10% battery. This is quite inconvenient.

I asked chatgpt and … it’s got an amazing imagination! None of its suggestions were technical feasible.

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My suggestion (haven’t tested this):

  • get watch battery level with an app like CloudBattery or AllMyBatteries
  • run an automation every day at the times that are shortly after you get up (or maybe earlier than that since the watch should be charged shortly into your sleep)
  • send a notification, email, task (whatever you’re most likely to see) if the watch battery level is low

I think you’d have to go in this direction because the watch isn’t allowed to run anything that could react to battery life and push out information. I don’t know if battery syncing apps will stay close enough to realtime during the night, though.

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What time do you get up? Set a reminder to check your AW for that time +15 minutes. If you tend to ignore reminders, the Due app will nag you every five minutes until you acknowledge it

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I’ve had a couple of times when this has happened, luckily I live a 2 watch lifestyle so I can cope in the short term.

Now

  1. I always check that the watch I just put on the charger is actually charging, both in the morning (When I swap watches to put on my S9) and at night (When I put on my S6)
  2. I have an Apple Watch charging puck in my work bag (along with the rest of my Charging Go Bag) in case I need to boost it at my home desk or at work.
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If you set up a sleep schedule in the Health app and set your “bedtime” for a specific hour (ie 11pm every night) , there is a setting in the Watch iOS app that will give you a heads up if your watch needs a charge before going to bed.

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Thanks, that’s great to get you through the night, but doesn’t cover the OP’s original concern about the morning.

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I use the BatteryPhone app, which provides alerts both on the watch and your phone if the watch battery level goes below a configured percentage and has a complication on the watch face.

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Bummer there’s no built-in “forgot to charge” notification for Apple Watch. Might be worth setting up a Shortcut to check battery level and alert you if it’s low. Or see if any third-party apps offer that feature.

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If the Watch battery is charged before bed, it should last through the night and well into next morning, which would afford more than enough time to check watch when you make morning coffee/tea. :grinning:

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You could make a shortcut that will check for the battery power on your watch. But because there’s no automation support on the watch, it’s not possible to make it run at a specific time, or for some other trigger like taking the watch off the charger. It’s just as easy — easier, probably — to just check the battery using the side button.

A better option would be to make use of the sleep tracking that @sgclark mentioned.

Go into the health app, and from the “browse” tab at the bottom of the page, select “sleep”; scroll down to “your schedule” and make sure sleep schedule is on. (If you don’t want to use sleep schedule regularly, you can turn this off later.)

Now go to the Apple Watch app on your phone, scroll down to “sleep”, and there will be an option for “charging reminders”. Make sure it’s on. (You can now turn off sleep schedule in the Health app if you wish.)

With this setting turned on, your watch will send a notification to your phone when it’s fully charged. If you don’t see that notification in the morning when you wake, you know something was awry. Not quite what you want: it’s the absence of a notification that you’d look for, rather than the presence of a notification.

The other alternative, if you have a Mac, is AirBuddy. You can set an alert for when your Apple Watch drops below any battery setting you care to specify.

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Interesting, I might actually give it a go, I’m curious how it would work.

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