i suggest you both look at the Background App Refresh options on your watches. In earlier versions of wOS only items in your Dock or active complications had background refresh active. Now, all apps have it by default. Trim the list down to only apps you will use regularly.
I created a new watch face using only apple complications/apps and set it as the active face last night. Today after wearing the watch about 5 hours, i'm still at 88%. I'm not sure if one of the third party app complications I was using was an issue (none of those apps had updates in the past week). Or... I see people commenting that the podcasts app has been causing problem. I don't use the app on my watch but I did subscribe to a few new podcasts yesterday when i had the battery issue. none of them should have synced to the watch given my settings, but I'm wondering if this change in the phone podcasts app caused some weirdness in the watch app. I had gone a couple days without listening to podcasts prior to my issue with short battery life, and i dont think i've subscribed to new podcasts since updating the phone and watch to ios 13 / watchos 6
Apps with complications on the current watch face will continue to refresh, even when their background app refresh setting is off. This is why I set my current watch face to Meridian with no complications, I can always swipe to another watch face if I need to see complications - I have 5 watch faces for various needs. After 10 hours my AW S4 is usually around 80% battery. No apps installed other than the ones that shipped with the watch.
I wonder what is classified as “Usage”. That is a very low number for the total number of hours you used the watch. Mine reaches 2 hours in about 5 or 6 total hours and that is with barely using any apps (if any)...So far on my S5 44mm using 6.1 beta 3 battery life seems very good so far.
AOD on
Background app refresh on for everything
Noise app off
Raise to wake on
Brightness halfway on the iPhone app or 2 bars in the watch settings
So far 2hrs usage, 1 day 6hrs standby and I still have 35% left to go
Do not disturb is turned on in this shot but I only turned it on 1hr ago, have had quite a few notifications and texts through since taking it of the charger.
HI,So far on my S5 44mm using 6.1 beta 3 battery life seems very good so far.
AOD on
Background app refresh on for everything
Noise app off
Raise to wake on
Brightness halfway on the iPhone app or 2 bars in the watch settings
So far 2hrs usage, 1 day 6hrs standby and I still have 35% left to go
Do not disturb is turned on in this shot but I only turned it on 1hr ago, have had quite a few notifications and texts through since taking it of the charger.
That actually seems pretty great to have been off the cahrger for nearly a day and a half.
I have the exact same problem. The only app i use consistently is the "Now Playing". And I cannot get through the day without having to charge my watch in the middle of the day. I am usually less than 50% after about 6 hours of wearing my watch. I need to charge it for an additional hour in order to make it through the day.
So that’s 5% an hour. Better then what you had previously had .
Let’s hope your repl is better. Run it through a few charge cycles so it can optimise
