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Anyone seeing a drop in battery life?

drbrydges

drbrydges

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Got the iPhone X yesterday and synced it with my Apple Watch Series 3 I had with my previous iPhone and I’ve noticed the battery is draining like crazy. I’ve been able to get to 60 or sometimes 70% by the end of a day and charge it every night, but now I’m almost at 50% not even through half of the day. Anyone else seeing this issue? Not sure if it’s 4.1 or the iPhone X that might be doing this.

Thanks!
 
I have the original Apple Watch and I just upgraded to watch os 4.1 after getting my iPhone X, previously I was on the latest before 4 and was on a iPhone 6, I’ve notice a significant battery difference, idk what’s causing it
 
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econrads024 said:
as soon as I paired mine with the x then the battery life went down the drain!
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Same here.

S3 LTE. Most days end with 70-75 percent on watch. Got phone at 2:30 and watch was dead at 9. Going to try and repair to see if something got hung up when it swapped all the info from 7 to X.

Fingers crossed
 
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Maui19 said:
My AW S3 didn't make it through the day yesterday. Usually I can get through the day with 30-45% remaining. I upgraded to 4.1 on Friday.
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I don’t have an X but since I upgraded to 4.1 there has been a significant difference.
 
Ive noticed a drop in battery life recently too.
Series 0 on 4.1 iPhone 8 11.1
No idea whats causing it, Im trying setting my watch up as new now to see if that makes a difference.
 
Yes. Clear drop in battery life on my series 2 since upgrading to watchOS 4.

What strange is that it seems pretty random. Some days it remains close enough to what I was getting with watchOS 3, and others it is drastically less.
 
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I noticed this same problem after pairing! I accidentally allowed all apps to sync, causing every iPhone app available to load on my watch so I assumed this was the problem. I reset the watch completely last night to factory so we’ll see how it goes today!
 
For those who just got an iPhone X, I don't think it's related to that. I've noticed a large drop on my S2 since upgrading to watchOS 4.1 from 4.0 (paired to an iPhone SE).

Also, after the watchOS 4.1 update it's no longer giving me daily achievements for Stand, Move and Exercise (it shows the notifications, but doesn't give me the achievements), and it didn't give me the Perfect Week achievement either, despite completing it. It also thinks my > 500 day Move streak ended the other day when it did not, and the November achievement is showing a totally whacky number for the amount of calories I've supposedly averaged so far this month (i.e. 3000 Calories/day).
 
Sorry Friednoodles, but I disagree. I was getting all-day usage up until I paired it with my IPX. Now I’m lucky if I get 1/2 day.

It isn’t 4.1 because I’ve been running 4.1 since the beta came out and had no issues until I paired with my IPX.

BeachBum45... can you report after doing a reset please?

Series 0, WatchOS 4.1, iPhone X w/11.1
 
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sealos said:
Sorry Friednoodles, but I disagree. I was getting all-day usage up until I paired it with my IPX. Now I’m lucky if I get 1/2 day.

It isn’t 4.1 because I’ve been running 4.1 since the beta came out and had no issues until I paired with my IPX.

BeachBum45... can you report after doing a reset please?

Series 0, WatchOS 4.1, iPhone X w/11.1
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Okay, so I am fairly certain that resetting my watch back to factory fixed the problem on my device. I'm going on 5 hours of use (including going to the gym and listening to music via the watch) and it's still reporting 100% - which was not the case yesterday after much less time and usage.

AW s3 LTE + IPX
 
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I’m noticing the exact same thing. SD 42mm lte. Yesterday I got the 10% battery low inidicator before bed. This was after charging to full in the morning.

Not really sure what’s to blame. I just updated to 4.1 and got an X so it’s tough to narrow down the culprit for me.

I’m also getting terrible streaming buffering on lte and WiFi but that may not be related.

I went ahead and rebooted the watch today. We will see if that does anything. I’d love to avoid completely restoring.
 
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drbrydges said:
Got the iPhone X yesterday and synced it with my Apple Watch Series 3 I had with my previous iPhone and I’ve noticed the battery is draining like crazy. I’ve been able to get to 60 or sometimes 70% by the end of a day and charge it every night, but now I’m almost at 50% not even through half of the day. Anyone else seeing this issue? Not sure if it’s 4.1 or the iPhone X that might be doing this.

Thanks!
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sealos said:
Sorry Friednoodles, but I disagree. I was getting all-day usage up until I paired it with my IPX. Now I’m lucky if I get 1/2 day.

It isn’t 4.1 because I’ve been running 4.1 since the beta came out and had no issues until I paired with my IPX.

BeachBum45... can you report after doing a reset please?

Series 0, WatchOS 4.1, iPhone X w/11.1
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Agree. I’ve been using 4.1 with iPhone 6s fine. After pairing with X I got half a day before dead.

Done a reboot and we’ll see if that helps.
 
beachbum45 said:
Okay, so I am fairly certain that resetting my watch back to factory fixed the problem on my device. I'm going on 5 hours of use (including going to the gym and listening to music via the watch) and it's still reporting 100% - which was not the case yesterday after much less time and usage.

AW s3 LTE + IPX
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So what did you do? Sorry for the probably obvious question, but it might help me out also.
 
I got my iPhone X on Friday and immediately paired my Apple Watch with it. In just 3 hours I got a low battery warning on the watch. I recharged it, but the high battery drain persisted. Yesterday, the fully charged watch dropped to 32% after less than 4 hours. Previously, my watch lasted the entire day with 70% remaining! I then turned off un-needed notifications, recharged and tested it today. The drain was lower, but it still wouldn't be able to last a full day. I just did a reset and set up as a new watch. We shall see if that helps...
 
YES. I upgraded my phone to IOS 11.1 and WatchOS 4.1 when they came out on Tuesday. I didn't notice any issue then.

I paired my Watch with my new iPhone X on Friday afternoon. I used a restore from iTunes to set up the phone. SInce then, my watch's battery is abysmal.

Yesterday evening I went for a run and didn't think of topping the battery. It died right as I came back home (and I came home earlier than scheduled, I cut my cool down).

I though maybe it was user error. But today... I put the watch on around 8am, fully charged. It's now 2:30pm and the battery is 28%. I went for a walk that I recorded through the workout app (12 minutes!), listening to music through the watch during that time, got a couple of texts and responded to one (but I had my phone with me so it didn't use LTE), and another walk that I didn't record but it was partially counted in my exercise ring. That's all I did. A few days ago, the watch would have shrugged that off and lost a few %.

Note that yesterday, I went over the app list in My Watch app - upon restore, every single app on my phone installed on the Watch. I uninstalled a bunch of them, hoping that would help the battery. It clearly did not.
 
So I setup as new once a year with a new watch and phone. So I setup as new 2 days ago with the X no backup no nothing.

There definitely are draining issues.

In the past off the charger I would get to work a couple of hours later and still have 100% left. Today when I got to work it was at 92%. At this rate I should be at 50% by end of the day. Usually 80+%

I doubt it’s the X I think it’s 4.1. Maybe not in the betas but definitely something in the final.
 
I didn't notice anything when I upgraded to 4.1, but then I only had a couple of days before I got the X, so maybe. But yesterday and today, it's glaring.
 
TylerDurden130 said:
So what did you do? Sorry for the probably obvious question, but it might help me out also.
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So I’m now definitely back to my pre-iphone X battery consumption after a day of use following my reset.

I went into settings-general on the watch, then at the bottom reset - erase all content and settings. Once it completed, I set up as new (not restore from backup) and put everything back the way I had it before iPhone X. That was it! About 20 minutes all said and done.
(Just make sure to not allow all apps to be loaded on setup )
 
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beachbum45 said:
So I’m now definitely back to my pre-iphone X battery consumption after a day of use following my reset.

I went into settings-general on the watch, then at the bottom reset - erase all content and settings. Once it completed, I set up as new (not restore from backup) and put everything back the way I had it before iPhone X. That was it! About 20 minutes all said and done.
(Just make sure to not allow all apps to be loaded on setup )
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Some people on Reddit are saying that rebooting the Watch also resolves the issue. I'll try that. I don't want to lose my exercise data :(
 
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