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Kraizelburg

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Original poster
Nov 10, 2018
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Spain
Hi, I was wondering whether weather complication drain battery faster because I've noticed every time I have a watch face with weather complication my iPhone is always showing location services icon and only goes away if I change the watch face to one without weather complication.

Thanks
 

Otflyer

macrumors 65816
Nov 14, 2017
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999
SF Bay Area
I have weather complication on all my watch faces and see no effect on the battery life of my two S5’s or previous S0, S3, S4 watches.
 

Significant1

macrumors 68000
Dec 20, 2014
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I don't know about battery, but I had big activity synchronization problems, till I removed location access for weather. That was watchOS 5, so I might have been fixed since.
 

staggerlee41

macrumors 65816
Sep 25, 2017
1,072
1,057
Pittsburgh, PA
I also use Carrot on my S4's and previous S2. It hasn't cause me any battery drain even with background refresh on. I use infographic watch faces but I changed the color of the face from white to black.
 
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