Ah... 10 or 11 hours makes more sense. Any workouts during that time? Are all third party watch apps up to date?
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Battery life on my launch day series 0 on 3.2.3 is amazing!
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Ah... 10 or 11 hours makes more sense. Any workouts during that time? Are all third party watch apps up to date?
All 3d pty apps up to date. 30 minute run every day-which makes it crazy. I can understand if that was the reason-but I had 'normal' battery life with my workouts and then all of the sudden the battery crapped out
Yeah... that definitely isn't normal battery performance. I have had a couple of episodes like that after updates, but after a few days the battery life would return to normal. That made me think that it had something to do with apps having to re-cache information that the update may have wiped out. In at least one case battery life returned to normal after I updated several of my watch apps, but since I got multiple updates I didn't know which app had been the culprit. I'm sure it was an app though.
I wish we could see exactly how much battery/usage each app is consuming, the way you can on the iPhone. Before assuming it's a bad battery, you could try removing third party apps for a time to see if battery performance improves.
Sean
I hope that solves the issue, and I really wish Apple would give us a way to monitor individual app usage on the watch. I hate having to guess which app is causing the problem.
Your 2FA app might work better after a re-install. If not you can probably just run it on the iPhone at least.
Sean
Yes if you read some of the earlier posts, many ppl are complaining of worse battery life after the recent software upgrade.
I finally upgraded the software of my 2 year old, 38mm SS S0, and the difference is striking. I usually drop about 4% per hour, but today I'm still at 100% after 2 hours.
Granted, I'm not a power user of the watch. I only use native apps, so my usage primarily consists of email and texts, reminders, checking weather, occasional Siri usage, etc. Also, I keep brightness on the lowest setting. Still, it's a marked improvement so far.
Granted, I'm not a power user of the watch. I only use native apps, so my usage primarily consists of email and texts, reminders, checking weather, occasional Siri usage, etc. Also, I keep brightness on the lowest setting. Still, it's a marked improvement so far.
And now I just got down playing golf for a couple of hours, and the battery is at 87% after 5 total hours. That's a big improvement.
I wrote this back in 2017 regarding my first generation watch. Wow! 7 hours at 100%. And now, I am at 7 hours at 8% on my watch 4.0.