Same here - Ultra 3 and battery is two days with 25% to spare after 48 hours with around an hour run a day
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Thanks @xDKP and @NME42 , much appreciated.
I've done some digging and found several reddit threads about exactly the same battery drain problem. Some people were suggesting a hard reset, I've done that before but that made no difference. And interestingly, someone mentioned that it could be related to the Weather app complication syncing issues (that have been a proper pain in 26.0.2), suggesting that the constant unsuccessful sync attempts are causing the drain.
So I've done a proper cleanup. I've removed weather complications from all my watch faces, deleted multiple animated faces that I don't really use, then did another hard reset to kill any potentially remaining processes, and - knock on wood - it seems much better now! I don't wanna speak too soon - charged to 100% around lunchtime and now (~7pm) it's at 91%, that feels about right. Haven't had a chance to try a run today (sniffles... 🤧🙄) but with a bit of luck it's gonna be ok. Gosh, this watch was able to take me through ~50k in one charge, now it wanted to die after 15, that's not cool at all! - Anyway, rant over, I'll just leave this here in case anyone else stumbles upon the same problem.
Edit to add: even without recording a run (looks like sniffles will stay with me for a while), I can tell that the difference is huge. After ~24 hrs of rather light use (i.e. all day/night wear, regular notifications, one 30 mins indoors workout / stretching session), the battery was still at around 25%, which is pretty much what I was used to prior to the messed up update. Fingers crossed that the next one fixes the weather app problem, I kinda miss the complications 🫠
Edit 2: indeed, without the Weather app complications, the battery is doing fine. 1 hr outdoor run + 20 mins non-gps workout only took 17%. Now I just need 26.1 to get it properly fixed 😃
I've done some digging and found several reddit threads about exactly the same battery drain problem. Some people were suggesting a hard reset, I've done that before but that made no difference. And interestingly, someone mentioned that it could be related to the Weather app complication syncing issues (that have been a proper pain in 26.0.2), suggesting that the constant unsuccessful sync attempts are causing the drain.
So I've done a proper cleanup. I've removed weather complications from all my watch faces, deleted multiple animated faces that I don't really use, then did another hard reset to kill any potentially remaining processes, and - knock on wood - it seems much better now! I don't wanna speak too soon - charged to 100% around lunchtime and now (~7pm) it's at 91%, that feels about right. Haven't had a chance to try a run today (sniffles... 🤧🙄) but with a bit of luck it's gonna be ok. Gosh, this watch was able to take me through ~50k in one charge, now it wanted to die after 15, that's not cool at all! - Anyway, rant over, I'll just leave this here in case anyone else stumbles upon the same problem.
Edit to add: even without recording a run (looks like sniffles will stay with me for a while), I can tell that the difference is huge. After ~24 hrs of rather light use (i.e. all day/night wear, regular notifications, one 30 mins indoors workout / stretching session), the battery was still at around 25%, which is pretty much what I was used to prior to the messed up update. Fingers crossed that the next one fixes the weather app problem, I kinda miss the complications 🫠
Edit 2: indeed, without the Weather app complications, the battery is doing fine. 1 hr outdoor run + 20 mins non-gps workout only took 17%. Now I just need 26.1 to get it properly fixed 😃
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What a brilliant creative approach to issue solving... 🤦♀️ who the heck is doing these decisions? A competitor who had infiltrated Apple to sabotage them? Eh.Just checked after iOS 26.1/watchOS 26.1 releases if it is now possible to delete Race Routes in the Fitness app. Well, Apple removed the edit button on Race Routes.
No idea. This feature would be really great if Apple would put a little love in it.
Had updates on some Race Routes in September but then it stopped again.
Another thing I have noticed - If I start my run at home - run to the track (and start track mode) - leave the track to run home and press finish - It will finish at the distance finished. If I start and do the warm up and cool down on the track though, I can get some distance removed in the end - like finish on 10,00 km and press end and it will correct itself to 9,95 (which pisses me off )
Any of you noticed that? Also leaving the track to run home - the "You have left the track" can sometimes take long and it misses again distance there - there should be a "leave track" option, just as there is a "Select lane" option.
)Any of you noticed that? Also leaving the track to run home - the "You have left the track" can sometimes take long and it misses again distance there - there should be a "leave track" option, just as there is a "Select lane" option.
No. Have not done a track workout with watchOS 26 yet. Also my track workouts in the past always have been with a warmup starting at home.
9 out of 10 of mine are with start/finish at home as well, but with my daughter yesterday she biked next to me and only ran in the track mode and it changed her 5,07 km to 4,98 when she pressed end workout.
That’s a good question - when you run 20 x 400m as I did Tuesday with 20 second walk, I completely miss out on distance and where I started etc. and the watch is the only thing keeping count 🤣
that's why I suggest only a 2k, five laps are still somewhat manageable 😂 (last time I did a 10k on track I lost count pretty quickly, definitely earlier than halfway through the 25 laps... if it wasn't for the distance on the watch I'd be absolutely lost! 🫠)