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The watchOS 10 battery life thread [MERGED]

Incidentally guys, I think this watch issue is affecting my phone too. Got an iPhone 11 with 96% battery health, on iOS16 would sometimes go to bed with like 46% battery left. iOS17 has been okay apart from some random days where it kills my phone by 9pm! Today my watch died in 5 hours and my phone is dead by 9:25pm. Both taken off charge at 9:30am

I swear I wish I'd never updated either.
 
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So I did a test yesterday and it seems to work. I deleted every widget from my Apple Watch and my battery is back to where it used to be. I was down to around 20% at the end of my workday after upgrading to watchOS 10 and today, I'm at 50% at the end of the day. I'm not sure which widget caused it but I don't like the widget feature anyways because the app I mainly use is not a widget.
 
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dturner123 said:
So I did a test yesterday and it seems to work. I deleted every widget from my Apple Watch and my battery is back to where it used to be. I was down to around 20% at the end of my workday after upgrading to watchOS 10 and today, I'm at 50% at the end of the day. I'm not sure which widget caused it but I don't like the widget feature anyways because the app I mainly use is not a widget.
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Did you mean apps? What widgets on AW is deletable?
 
dturner123 said:
So I did a test yesterday and it seems to work. I deleted every widget from my Apple Watch and my battery is back to where it used to be. I was down to around 20% at the end of my workday after upgrading to watchOS 10 and today, I'm at 50% at the end of the day. I'm not sure which widget caused it but I don't like the widget feature anyways because the app I mainly use is not a widget.
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I read this & said to myself "widgets?"
Then looked & found them, deleted them all & seems to have fixed the problem for me.
I deleted them about an hour ago & battery hasn't changed at all since!!
Many thanks for finding & sharing.
Additional I looked at this:
beebom.com

How to Add Widgets to Apple Watch in watchOS 10

To add Widgets to your Apple Watch - Swipe up on your Watch face to bring up widgets -> Long press on any widget -> Tap the "+" button.
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ibarnett said:
I read this & said to myself "widgets?"
Then looked & found them, deleted them all & seems to have fixed the problem for me.
I deleted them about an hour ago & battery hasn't changed at all since!!
Many thanks for finding & sharing.
Additional I looked at this:
beebom.com

How to Add Widgets to Apple Watch in watchOS 10

To add Widgets to your Apple Watch - Swipe up on your Watch face to bring up widgets -> Long press on any widget -> Tap the "+" button.
beebom.com beebom.com
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You're welcome! I'm glad it's working for you too. I hope Apple fixes this in an update soon!
 
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After around 24 hours my watch lost 32% power, that’s an improvement and I haven’t really done anything besides maybe opening the weather and some other apps. Gotta test it some more this week.

Are other noticing the ‘auto night mode’ is glitching during the day, having always on display off?
 
For me, it's the weather widget. it's bugged in watch OS 10 and is constantly gettings tuck in a "loading weather" loop. even if you fix it by restart or turning it off and on, it eventually rebreaks and in that state drains battery like mad. I'm on a Ultra 1 with perfect battery health and this thing used to need charging every 36 hours. literally I'd charge it for an hour every day and a half. Now it lasts about 20 hours if weather widget is on. Googling weather loading issue shows just as many posts as battery health posts, and i feel it likely goes hand in hand for some. Not to say there aren't other broken widgets too, cause there probably are. Its just one easiest to notice.
 
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tomacintosh said:
Catering to their new products. Typical
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Nope, it's actually not typical. Usually most updates cater to several generations of devices. It's far rarer to see a new patch for a specific new piece of hardware, though that does happen with more frequency in the immediate term following the new hardware.
 
My Ultra II is now on 60 Hours and down to 23% battery, with another 45 min training. Amazing:)

First thing I notice after update to 10.0.2 was, that the icon that show the temperatur is actually now showing the temp instead of the 2 lines.
 
dturner123 said:
So I did a test yesterday and it seems to work. I deleted every widget from my Apple Watch and my battery is back to where it used to be. I was down to around 20% at the end of my workday after upgrading to watchOS 10 and today, I'm at 50% at the end of the day. I'm not sure which widget caused it but I don't like the widget feature anyways because the app I mainly use is not a widget.
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Trying this right now ! Thank you .
 
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Selandia said:
My Ultra II is now on 60 Hours and down to 23% battery, with another 45 min training. Amazing:)

First thing I notice after update to 10.0.2 was, that the icon that show the temperatur is actually now showing the temp instead of the 2 lines.
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Damn my Ultra is nowhere near that! With an hour run every day I cannot even go 48 hours - Maybe a clean install is worth a try
 
Howard2k said:
Nope, it's actually not typical. Usually most updates cater to several generations of devices. It's far rarer to see a new patch for a specific new piece of hardware, though that does happen with more frequency in the immediate term following the new hardware.
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Obviously I mean typical in this scenario where it's all the older devices that are suffering the worst
 
xDKP said:
Damn my Ultra is nowhere near that! With an hour run every day I cannot even go 48 hours - Maybe a clean install is worth a try
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Hmm, do not know if this is worth the hassle. Would wait until there is an update from Apple.
 
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NME42 said:
Hmm, do not know if this is worth the hassle. Would wait until there is an update from Apple.
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Clean install has not helped here. Nor has a reset and restore from backup.

Also not fixing it; removing widgets, removing weather, turning off background app refresh, turning off WiFi, using basic watch face, turning off double punch, thoughts, prayers, resync contact data, wishing, reboot, giving it time to ‘index’
 
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new U2 currently at 53% after 36 hours.

Simple desk usage, various notifications on, normal power mode, sleep tracking on, AOD off

No recent workouts :shame: lol

WatchOS 10.0.1 and reading some other threads I hesitate to update to 0.2

Weather complication working smoothly.

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WatchOS 10.0.1 and reading some other threads I hesitate to update to 0.2
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Good that I have not read these threads as I have absolutely no issue on my U2 with 10.0.2. ;). Only difference I noticed is that the screen dimming behaved sometimes strange before 10.0.2 but was not a big deal for me.
I have a terrific battery usage on my U2. Can't sometimes believe the numbers. E.g. charged by watch today to 100% before I did half an hour workout and then rode with my bike to work (tracking GPS and using the OHR for heart rate) and in these 2.5 hours between charging and arriving at work, my U2 lost only 4% battery. Incredible.
 
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Same for me, battery life is incredible (coming from S5 LTE).
My watch is ON for more than 9 hours and I have only lost 10%
 
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NME42 said:
Good that I have not read these threads as I have absolutely no issue on my U2 with 10.0.2. ;). Only difference I noticed is that the screen dimming behaved sometimes strange before 10.0.2 but was not a big deal for me.
I have a terrific battery usage on my U2. Can't sometimes believe the numbers. E.g. charged by watch today to 100% before I did half an hour workout and then rode with my bike to work (tracking GPS and using the OHR for heart rate) and in these 2.5 hours between charging and arriving at work, my U2 lost only 4% battery. Incredible.
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Hmmm …. I see now that 0.2 seems to have addressed the dimming for others as well.

temptation increases ….

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dturner123 said:
You're welcome! I'm glad it's working for you too. I hope Apple fixes this in an update soon!
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Yep deleting the Widgets worked for me too. 100% Charged since this morning. ANd still 100% on my to work. 70-80 min commute time. My phone on the otherhand. DIfferent story. I got the phone last Friday. I would think this "reindexing" thing would have worked itself out by now. I used also get to work with 100%-99% on my iphone. But now it's down to 93%. No change in my usage behavior. Streaming podcast on Spotify in that same commute period. Are the lockscreen widgets doing the same battery drain on iPhone?
 
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