I've been using my first-gen as a backup device while my Series 3 charges in the morning. It bothers me to see gaps in my metrics for some reason. Battery life on the first-gen was my main reason for upgrading.

Are you going to upgrade to a gen 4 this year?

@Burk Haven't thought about it too much, but probably makes sense to wait for the fall announcement if there's a new one.

just did that last week. Have not regretted it at all.

@ddykstal Good news. I'm sure I'll appreciate the speed bump.

I am trying to hold out for Series 4 before retiring mine.

Such a downer when batteries do that. I’m already nervous about my Series 1.

now that my Series 0 won’t get updated any longer, I’m looking really hard at the Charge 3 just for the sake of all week battery and under $200. I wish it worked with Apple Health, though...a whole new category to worry about silos

@staggerlee the Fitbit app doesn’t push data into Apple Health? Even the Garmin app does that.

@staggerlee Yep, health data portability will become a big issue. I'll stick to the web stuff, but hope other people are thinking about it.

I'm holding out hope that there's a new watch in the Fall, and also looking forward to skipping a few generations and seeing a big jump in performance. Remember when that used to happen with Macs?

yep - we soldour Series 0 Apple Watches. Still had a good enough charge. Got Series 3 with cellular. Love the snappy response 😁

That said, a first-party battery replacement is $79, so you can get more life out of the Series 0 if you want to stretch its life out. I paid ~$40-50 for battery changes in “normal" nice watches that I'm sure aren't nearly the capacity of the Apple Watch.

@swh If my Series 0 could run the upcoming watchOS version, I'd definitely consider the battery upgrade. Might be a good option for next time.

I had to upgrade this year as well. Wait until you see how quick the series 3 is, and how much longer the battery lasts.

@burk My zero has the same issue. I’ve been living with it for a couple months now since rumor has it the new model will be a redesign. Hence a new Apple Watch is at the top of my “give more money to Apple” list for this year.

Really not bad for a gen one product

@staggerlee there are apps to sync Fitbit data with Apple Health... Most of them are around $3 I think...

@staggerlee there used to be a Microsoft app that would backup all of my health data to Dropbox using JSON files. That seems to be dead now... :

is it just that the battery is old? Or are you on iOS 12 beta and it's over-syncing and killing it?

@nitinkhanna Just getting old. I'm not even running the beta yet on any devices.

Regarding the beta, I think there is (was?) a battery status bug in recent betas. It told me my watch battery was at 0% about 6 hours into the day, and then the watch kept on working for the rest of the day without a problem.

@sharding (I know that's not the issue for you if you're not running the beta -- just for the benefit of others who might be reading this thread.)

I’m in the same position and trying to hold out until we see what’s coming next. It’s highly annoying though!

My series zero is also on its last battery legs. It’s such a nice artifact it’s a shame about its obsolescence. I knew it wouldn’t last forever, but I wish it could!

I had to upgrade last fall because my 38mm Apple Watch wasn't making it through the day anymore. I really wanted it to last until this year or longer.

Having previously been an owner of an Original Apple Watch I can tell you the speed on the new ones is a total game changer.

@Aleen did you get another 38mm? I’m curious if battery life concerns made you go larger.

@jthingelstad agreed! I found the newer models have better battery life and are much, much faster. I have a series 2 (and owned original) and my wife has a series 3.

@Vittorino yeah, 38mm. 42 is just too big to be comfortable.

@jthingelstad That’s good to hear. I have my series 0 ticking away on my wrist but it really only functions for time/message notifications/step tracking. Everything else is a guess as to whether it’ll launch. I will be watching Apple announcements in a few weeks closely.

Ah... I think my series 0's battery has improved with the new OS, though now I've just gotten used to charging it every night. I do not look forward to when iOS 12 will drop support for it. Might be my main reason to not update my phone!

@chet @straggerlee @vittorino FitBit chose to not support Apple Health as a business decision, hoping it would give them advantage over Apple with people already invested in FitBit silo when Apple Health came about. Basically they never will support it officially.