There’s definitely an issue with playing music. My battery went from just over two days to a day and a half, this was after going for a run and listening to music, although I did not make the connection at the time. After taking a little over a week off running my battery returned to normal and I thought all was fine, however, I went for a run and listened to music on Monday and since then my battery had been draining quicker than usual again.
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The watchOS 10 battery life thread [MERGED]
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Like many others, the battery life of my Series 8 (watchOS 10.0.2) has decreased since updating to the new software version. Over the past 4 days, I have noticed a marked improvement since I deactivated "Daylight exposure time" in Privacy (Watch application). I wanted to report it here !
Like many others, the battery life of my Series 8 (watchOS 10.0.2) has decreased since updating to the new software version. Over the past 4 days, I have noticed a marked improvement since I deactivated "Daylight exposure time" in Privacy (Watch application). I wanted to report it here !
thanks. gonna give this a shot. my series 7, isn't draining as fast as it did initially, after i set it up new the battery went back close to normal, but over the last couple of days for no reason i can tell i'm seeing the battery usage go up with no increase in watch usage.
Wow—this might be the fix. I turned it off for 3 hours and lost around 5% battery per hour, and turned it back on and lost 12% that hour. My battery isn’t great (only 80% health on a series 6), so this new “feature” seems to have made it so I can’t get through the day. I will keep it off and hopefully my battery issues will be fixed. Will report back if not.
Reporting battery issue AW7 since updating to 10.
Apple Watch 7 stainless gold. Battery health is 85%. Wife only wears her watch for jogging. Since doing two jogs both times the watch has died from 100% charge during the run. Super quick drain. She listens to Spotify to beats earbuds while jogging. Today’s run she said she could see the battery draining so quick and it shuts off around 15%.
In 2 hours it died from 100% using the watch to record outdoor run and listening to Spotify. No phone on her. Has happened twice now.
My Apple Watch 6 with 79% health non cellular on the same jog with her side by side did not experience this. After 2 hours outdoor run recording I was around 65%. I did not listen to music streaming from the watch though.
Apple Watch 7 stainless gold. Battery health is 85%. Wife only wears her watch for jogging. Since doing two jogs both times the watch has died from 100% charge during the run. Super quick drain. She listens to Spotify to beats earbuds while jogging. Today’s run she said she could see the battery draining so quick and it shuts off around 15%.
In 2 hours it died from 100% using the watch to record outdoor run and listening to Spotify. No phone on her. Has happened twice now.
My Apple Watch 6 with 79% health non cellular on the same jog with her side by side did not experience this. After 2 hours outdoor run recording I was around 65%. I did not listen to music streaming from the watch though.
Thanks. My AWU1 is still lasting a solid 45-48 hours between charges but this is less than what I could achieve under watchOS 9 (I could stretch it to 60+ hours without too much effort). My girlfriend has a SE2 and has been comlaining a lot about the battery since watchOS 10.
We will both try to deactivate this feature, hopefully it helps, especially for her.
My S5 (84% health) does not have the function of measuring exposure to sunlight and has also seen its battery life reduced.
The solution is not to deactivate functions on our Apple Watch to obtain a duration similar to WatchOS 9. If i deactivate the always-on screen function I also get 24 hours of battery life, but I repeat that this is not the solution.
It is evident that WatchOS 10 has a abnormal higher battery consumption on older devices and although in the latest betas it has been solved a little, the problem continues and we are still waiting for a solution from Apple.
10.1 RC (probably final version of 10.1) was presented this week, so at least we will have to wait several more weeks until the new rounds of betas come out (10.2 or whatever) if Apple wants to solve it.
Best regards and one more time sorry for my bad English.
The solution is not to deactivate functions on our Apple Watch to obtain a duration similar to WatchOS 9. If i deactivate the always-on screen function I also get 24 hours of battery life, but I repeat that this is not the solution.
It is evident that WatchOS 10 has a abnormal higher battery consumption on older devices and although in the latest betas it has been solved a little, the problem continues and we are still waiting for a solution from Apple.
10.1 RC (probably final version of 10.1) was presented this week, so at least we will have to wait several more weeks until the new rounds of betas come out (10.2 or whatever) if Apple wants to solve it.
Best regards and one more time sorry for my bad English.
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I agree, it's not normal to reduce functionality.
When you go at Apple support for battery issues, they give you a lot of "tips" like that to save battery.
But we just want to know what causes the drain and fix it.
We don't want to disable all features to hide the problem.
We don't buy expensive watches to disable AOD, health sensors ...
When you go at Apple support for battery issues, they give you a lot of "tips" like that to save battery.
But we just want to know what causes the drain and fix it.
We don't want to disable all features to hide the problem.
We don't buy expensive watches to disable AOD, health sensors ...
agree. i hate reducing functionality to solve what really feels like a system defect. but as a workaround, it works for now. battery life is much more important to me than estimated daylight tracking. i love the always on display though, couldn't think of turning that off.
i charged the watch for a bit this morning, picked it up off the charger at 91% at 7:30. it's now just after 9am and it's at 86%. So that works out to 3.33% per hour. obviously a very short length of time so the average might change as the day goes on but that's a substantial improvement vs. 5% per hour.
if it really is the "daylight exposure time" feature causing a 1 or 1.5% per hour battery use, that's a lot of battery use for a pretty minor feature and apple needs to solve it.
i charged the watch for a bit this morning, picked it up off the charger at 91% at 7:30. it's now just after 9am and it's at 86%. So that works out to 3.33% per hour. obviously a very short length of time so the average might change as the day goes on but that's a substantial improvement vs. 5% per hour.
if it really is the "daylight exposure time" feature causing a 1 or 1.5% per hour battery use, that's a lot of battery use for a pretty minor feature and apple needs to solve it.
this ain't it. i've used 44% after 8 hours off the charger. 5.5%/hour, haven't done any workouts or gps tracking or anything.
She took it to the contract Apple Care service center (iCare). All they did was look at the watch battery health (85%) and say that they can't fix it so they have to send it to Bangkok which means two weeks without the watch. My wife left with them. They unpaired it from her phone. The next day she changed her mind and got it back. She paired it with her phone and it still gets horrible battery life. She installed the WatchOS 10 Public Beta, but it still has horrible battery life: 100% when she got up at 5:00 AM and down to 17% at 3:00 PM. So, just over 8% per hour. Today is her workout day off, so no workout and no music. Just a quiet day on her wrist.
Not sure what's next.
Try turning off daylight exposure time—it has worked for me as a temporary solution.
I turned off the "Time in daylight" feature on my AWU1, and after exactly 24 hours off the charger, I still have 66% battery left. I did a 45 min workout this afternoon. This is way more in line with the battery life I had with watchOS 9.
While I also agree that turning off features to improve battery isn't usually an acceptable solution, this particular feature wasn't even available in watchOS 9.
If Apple introduce new features that are poorly optimized and decrease the battery life noticeably, well, I'm going to turn them off. Especially for something like time in daylight for which I don't really care at all.
While I also agree that turning off features to improve battery isn't usually an acceptable solution, this particular feature wasn't even available in watchOS 9.
If Apple introduce new features that are poorly optimized and decrease the battery life noticeably, well, I'm going to turn them off. Especially for something like time in daylight for which I don't really care at all.
And maybe someone at Apple will realize this feature is causing massive power usage and they will make it more efficient.
Thanks to the person who discovered this (Fred de France)!
This may be a culprit but I have a series 4 watch that does not have this capability and my battery has been draining immediately after the software update.
I spent about an hour online with Apple Support Chat. That agent said that she had received zero reports of diminished battery life after the WatchOS update. She did an online test of the watch which found no problems. She had me call an agent up the line.
That agent also said that she was unaware of any reports of battery problems after the WatchOS update. She escalated the case to "Senior Apple Support". I've yet to hear from them.
Is it really possible that no one has contacted Apple Support about this issue?
That agent also said that she was unaware of any reports of battery problems after the WatchOS update. She escalated the case to "Senior Apple Support". I've yet to hear from them.
Is it really possible that no one has contacted Apple Support about this issue?
people should be reporting this as a bug and using feedback
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No, this is typical Apple BS, the equivalent of product support gaslighting; of course there are multiple people contacting Apple, I, as well, got to the phone support. They don’t want to admit that there is a problem because if “hey, it’s just you”, means you got unlucky and you have to pay for repair.
I did finally hear from a more senior support person. She ran a remote battery test which showed what we already know. The battery health is OK (85%) but it is discharging abnormally fast. Unfortunately, their test does not pinpoint which app or process is causing the battery drain.
At that point she decided that since the watch is still covered by AppleCare+ she would have it replaced. She then put me on hold while she attempted contact with iCare, the local contract service agent. But, they only speak Thai and she only speaks English, so that was a bust.
Then she turned the call over to an engineer. He had apparently read the two test results in detail and concluded that it could not be a hardware problem. Everything on the watch (sensors, display, buttons, battery, etc.) was operating normally. So, it must be software.
He asked that we unpair the watch and then set it up as a new watch in order to avoid restoring from backup. He advised that after doing so we needed to wait a day or two (until syncing with the watch concluded) before knowing whether or not that solved the problem. If not, he give me a link I could use to resume the support session.
As of this morning, the results are not great. At 5:00 AM the watch was at 100%. Now, at 6:30 AM it is down to 82%.
We'll give it another day or so to finish syncing with the iPhone.
In my case I already restored my watch a few days ago avoiding doing it from a backup and it didn't solve it the battery issue. After restore the device I disable photo and music sync and I don't install any app in the watch.
Thank you for your comments and we would appreciate it if you would inform us. It is incredible that Apple is not aware of this problem. I have left a comment through the feedback website and through the feedback application that is installed on the iPhone when you use beta versions, and I surely haven't been the only one.
I apologize again for my English. Greetings.
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As for not being aware of problems.
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