Steve Jobs would be turning in his grave! He hated OS 9.
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OS 9 battery life is struggling...
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Correct me if I'm wrong - and I hope I am - last time I unpaired and re-paired - it wiped my watch first, then on pairing had to transfer the backup onto it which was an ordeal for me...
You make it sound as simple as forgetting AirPods, and re-pairing them... I would love that lol
I can see how it might be useful but honestly, on any ordinary day I put the watch onto charge when I go to bed, and I put it back on fully charged in the morning, no problem. It was just yesterday, for some I presume OS9 related reason, it wasn’t quite done when I first got up. Fine again this morning though.
I can only assume there was some heavy post-update processing going on throughout that first day and night.
Interestingly though, I’ve just noticed my battery health has dropped back down again to a more realistic 85% (one point below the level pre update..)
Well no its not as simple as forgetting and re-pairing Airpods. And I didn't mean to be dismissive of having to pair and re-pair, because it does take a few minutes. It will still wipe your watch and you'll have to reload the backup. To me it was worth trying because my battery was going to be dead by 4pm. I even tried putting it on low power and it was still draining.
I guess it comes down to how big of a problem it is for you. To me it was definitely worth trying as there was no way I was going to make it with that poor battery life. If you aren't see it as too much of a problem then maybe its not worth doing.
Mine is down too!! (S7) Love the features of 9 but so far it's a bit choppy on some moves and has locked up a couple times and needed to be restarted. The Notification pull down keeps not working and needs a restart to correct it.
I just changed the face on mine to one of no animation and a black background and so far I am at 99% after almost an hour.
I had this issues a handful of times on the watch os 9 beta. Typically shutting off and restarting it helped me then. Hope i don't run inot this on the public release. been good so far
I normally have to do an UN-paid and RE-pair to get battery life back to what was prior, but this time that trick doesn’t seem to have worked.
I have a Series 6 44m which on AW 7 (which was the last watch OS I was on) I got easily 48 hours of battery life usually including 1-2 workouts over that time frame, and including nighttime wearing for sleep tracking although I did put the watch in AP mode, DND and essentially theatre mode. Now, I‘m getting at most 36 hours of use which is a bummer.
I have the feeling, just subjective at the moment that the raise to wake (I don’t use the AOD) is a bit more sensitive or twitchy, and is lighting up the watch more. Also, some of the colors on my watch faces have moved from a slightly dark blue to FORCED to be white, that might do it.
Any other settings that have changed between OS 7 and OS 9?
I have a Series 6 44m which on AW 7 (which was the last watch OS I was on) I got easily 48 hours of battery life usually including 1-2 workouts over that time frame, and including nighttime wearing for sleep tracking although I did put the watch in AP mode, DND and essentially theatre mode. Now, I‘m getting at most 36 hours of use which is a bummer.
I have the feeling, just subjective at the moment that the raise to wake (I don’t use the AOD) is a bit more sensitive or twitchy, and is lighting up the watch more. Also, some of the colors on my watch faces have moved from a slightly dark blue to FORCED to be white, that might do it.
Any other settings that have changed between OS 7 and OS 9?
I have made a few adjustments - which frankly were NOT on with the prior OS 7 going in which is odd. It would appear that things like Siri set to “hey Siri” and raise to activate SIRI were RE-ENABLED when the watch updated. I never had these on before. Also, the setting to auto track a workout - essentially monitoring and caching movement data that the watch THINKS is a workout were ALSO re-enabled with the OS 9 update. Not really sure why these things would be turned back on with a software update.
I’ll add them to the list of things like TURN OFF WALKIE TALKIE (which somehow always gets re-enabled) among others. AT this point batter life is closer to the 48 hours I used to experience.