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AW Series 7 battery life worse then S6
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Mine is just as good as my S6 but you’ve only had the S7 for a day or so and you need to give it a chance over a few charge cycles to bed in and improve
I have heard bad things about battery life and 8.0.1. I’ve stayed on 8.0 and my S7 is so much better than my S5 - I got 26 hours on fri-sat, 27 last night and so far been off charger for 14 hours and 53%. Done a 3 mile dog walk today too steaming a podcast.
How is ending the day on 55% battery something to be worried about? Enjoy your watch and stop obsessing.
If you only wear it for work, I see no real problem. You aren't going to get the same battery usage every day. It is going to vary. Don't worry about the battery numbers and enjoy what you have.
My battery sucks so far too. I didn't wear my watch at all yesterday. Woke up with 76% battery life and it was dead by end of the day. My 6 used to last at least a day and a half
I just turned off all the background app refresh on most of my items so going to see if that helps mine.
At 5 hours of wearing time now and at 84% battery and I’m on 8.0.1, doesn’t seem like there’s an issue on every Series 7.
I restarted my watch and my phone. I also turned off some of the background apps. Now I have been wearing it for 4 hours and I am at 94%. So you could try those things and see if it helps.
Here we go, complaining about battery life… really??? 50% at the end of the day is not enough?
I don’t understand what the problem is about 55% as Apple have never promised more than an 18 hour battery life. Anything more than is a bonus
I'm not saying it's bad just that it's worse then my old S6 watch and I was expecting it to be better as it has a fresh battery compared to my S6 which has 91% battery health
Coming from an AWS5, i used to go 2 days solid with a good batter. i have had the AWS7 for about 5 days now, re-paired twice and battery seems to be lasting me 1 day....
i am going to wait now (just updated to watch os 8.1) a few days and see if things improve
i am going to wait now (just updated to watch os 8.1) a few days and see if things improve
mine is essentially the same as my older S6. you have to be careful you are comparing apples to apples (pardon the pun) because:
1. many people, including myself, "play" with my new watch more than normal when first getting a new one, this obviously causes an extra battery hit compared to my normal use.
2. the new watch may have different settings on compared to your old one, enabling battery consuming features that maybe you had disabled on the old one.
1. many people, including myself, "play" with my new watch more than normal when first getting a new one, this obviously causes an extra battery hit compared to my normal use.
2. the new watch may have different settings on compared to your old one, enabling battery consuming features that maybe you had disabled on the old one.
I'm getting at least as much runtime on the S7 as the S6. If you're not, have you updated to WOs 8.0.1 and restarted the watch? If you have, perhaps unpair (create a backup), and try setting up as new. You can always restore from the backup if it doesn't improve things.