That is definitely not normal. Something else must have caused the battery drain. It is worth rebooting both the watch and the iPhone before using the app again.
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Force Apple Watch to use internal GPS rather than Iphone GPS?
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I have an AW7 and run with it daily without my phone.
I have no issues with 2 hour runs after working in the office all day ( 5am - 3:30pm ).
Honestly, I have not paid attention to my watch battery charge state, since the original AW.
30 minutes seems a bit low.
Had my watch on since 5:30am this morning, currently 9:43am and watch battery is at 97%.
I have not done anything with watch besides check time once or maybe twice so far today.
Thanks a lot. I will try that for sure next time. So far I reset AW S5 to factory settings and reinstalled everything. Same with iPhone. I will try again. The thing is, I wanted to check the distances on my runs because recently they have been inconsistent because I always run 10K with WOD form the same route (more than 20 times this year) and its giving me different distances. I wanted to try and see with the inner Apple Watch S5 GPS instead of iPhone 8 GPS. But as I said the battery drain was dramatic. I let you know. Thanks.
Thanks. My AWS5 is losing battery very fast. I have taken all measurements to avoid this (Turn off Always On display, wake duration 15s, reduce transparency ON, reduce motion ON, Headphone notifications OFF, listen for hey Siri OFF, Raise to speak OFF, Silent mode ON, no Sound monitoring, Background app refresh mostly off); Now I restarted AW to factory settings... I will try WorkOutDoors V4.5.5 again in a run with Bluetooth off forcing inner GPS.
By default WOD uses Apple's distances, which use the pedometer rather than the GPS, so you may want to calibrate the watch as described here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204516.
If that doesn't work then you can switch the app to use GPS distances instead. To do this go to the Pace & Distance screen on the Settings tab.
I mountain bike in the woods and my GPS track is often inaccurate because of tree cover and because I store my phone away in my bag to keep it safe.
Now that the Apple Watch Ultra will have dual frequency GPS I'm really hoping that workouts will default to the watch GPS and not the phone so that I can get more accurate tracking. Anyone have insight into whether this might be the case on WatchOS 9?
Now that the Apple Watch Ultra will have dual frequency GPS I'm really hoping that workouts will default to the watch GPS and not the phone so that I can get more accurate tracking. Anyone have insight into whether this might be the case on WatchOS 9?
All the 2022 Apple Watches (S8, SE & Ultra) will now only use the watch internal GPS. 👍
Boom! As Pug72 says above all this year's watches use only internal GPS. Details here:
Hmm came across this thread on my search to find out why the GPS on my SE 2022 is so inaccurate. Made a post about it.
Very frustrated that Apple would introduce a feature with the new aw8 and not have it on aw7. I only just bought the aw7 (3 months ago). I listen to music when I run so can't disable the connection between devices. So my options are:- 1) Turn on Airplane Mode and have no music 2) Leave phone at home and have no music 3)Upload some music to my watch and disconnect or leave my phone at home 4)Change my carrier and get a cellular contract for the watch. Luckily its a cellular watch (expensive option). I have put in a feature request to apple but since they only just introduced this feature in aw8 and ultra I can't see it happening any time soon!