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Battery life on OS 5

I have a series 2 and I thought it was the Walkie Talkie app, but it still doesn’t seem great. This is day. Could turning off the WiFi help?
 
I am down to 91% after 2 hours without doing much at all. Kind of wish I had not upgraded. watchOS 5 is smooth, but the battery life is trash.
 
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I’m having the same issue. I’ve never had trouble with any other Apple update in 10 years of owning products.

I turned off the WiFi earlier and it turned itself back on! Can I disable it all together? I’m never far from my phone.
 
mollyc said:
I’m having the same issue. I’ve never had trouble with any other Apple update in 10 years of owning products.

I turned off the WiFi earlier and it turned itself back on! Can I disable it all together? I’m never far from my phone.
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Yeah, I had no issues with my series 2 until now.

You can turn off WiFi. You just go into your settings on the watch and look under WiFi. There is a toggle to turn it off.
 
I did turn it off but it turned itself back on.

I was up at 5:50 this morning and had fully charged my watch overnight. It’s now 9:40 and my battery is at 83%. I walked my son to the bus stop but have otherwise been lounging around since I have a cold.

I tried restarting it this but the only thing that did was drop me by 5%. So disappointing.
 
Mine is actually slightly improved over the course of the workday, but markedly better when running a GPS workout. Before the update if I did an outdoor run or walk for, say, an hour, I’d lose about 30% battery. Now, I’m only losing about half that. Which makes me really happy!
 
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mollyc said:
I did turn it off but it turned itself back on.

I was up at 5:50 this morning and had fully charged my watch overnight. It’s now 9:40 and my battery is at 83%. I walked my son to the bus stop but have otherwise been lounging around since I have a cold.

I tried restarting it this but the only thing that did was drop me by 5%. So disappointing.
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You went into settings, or just the control center by swiping up from the bottom? That won’t turn it off. You have to go into settings. I don’t think it helps much though.
 
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bmac4 said:
You went into settings, or just the control center by swiping up from the bottom? That won’t turn it off. You have to go into settings. I don’t think it helps much though.
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Oh. Just from the control center. Will go through settings. Thanks.
 
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Series 3 much worse. Usually a finish a full day with about 50-75% but now 10-30%. I have podcast app. Ran with it but did notice the big battery hit. Will try that in future.
 
A few days after updating mine, still bad. Wore it overnight per usual, not much of a difference woke up and it was maybe 96%. I am trying to use the Siri watchface. 60min run, 30mins of streaming music LTE, otherwise it was connected to my phone and wasn’t used. Currently I have 41% remaining. Should I try to repair it again??
 
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A few days after updating mine, still bad. Wore it overnight per usual, not much of a difference woke up and it was maybe 96%. I am trying to use the Siri watchface. 60min run, 30mins of streaming music LTE, otherwise it was connected to my phone and wasn’t used. Currently I have 41% remaining. Should I try to repair it again??
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I don’t think it will help. I think WatchOS 5 is just killing the battery right now
 
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I don't understand why this wasn't an issue with the Beta. Surely some AW3 users on the beta had poor battery life?? My watch isn't even 11 months old yet.
 
TylerDurden130 said:
A few days after updating mine, still bad. Wore it overnight per usual, not much of a difference woke up and it was maybe 96%. I am trying to use the Siri watchface. 60min run, 30mins of streaming music LTE, otherwise it was connected to my phone and wasn’t used. Currently I have 41% remaining. Should I try to repair it again??
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Yeesh bad to worse here as my SS3 LTE just died for the day on iOs5, hope this gets better or I might have to try to roll back, if that’s even possible. Here is a timeline if my usage.

10pm took off the charger with 100%, DND and Theater mode, no sleep tracking

4am wake up with 95% remaining, which was same as iOS4

5-6am Outdoor run, 30mins of streaming music over LTE

7am-2pm little use besides checking the time, was connected Bluetooth to my phone

2pm-7pm moderate use, mainly returning txts, either connected to phone or WiFi no LTE.

7:30pm 0% remaining

How is this possible?? I updated iOS5 on Monday and have yet to see a return to better battery life? So far I’m more then disappointed in iOS 5 with things that were talked about just not working and now it’s eating my battery too. WTF Apple??
 
At the risk of jinxing myself, I haven’t noticed a difference on WatchOS 5 on my S3 LTE. If anything it might be ever so slightly better.
 
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