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The watchOS 10 battery life thread [MERGED]
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The battery life on my S7 seems to have returned to normal in the 2 full days since it upgraded to 10.1
For me, if anything, 10.1 has improved battery life on my Ultra 2. I’ve just past 60 hours and have 30% battery left. Now I’ve been busy the last days so only time for a couple of short workouts, but still, I was not expecting to approach 60+ hours on a single charge
Modular Ultra, only things I have changed is that I turned off the daylight sensor - I’m outside all the time, I don’t need the watch to tell me that. And I disabled ‘show now playing’ on the watch. Have complications for temperture, calendar, battery, workout, timer and music. Middle complication is heart rate from Athlytic. Display brightness is set to middle. I put it on the charger after 62 hours, still had 24% battery left.
I don’t see how it can be. My ultra 2 has been perfect free since I got it on release day. I only have three 3rd party apps installed but everything is turned on and battery life is superb. I’m losing less than one percent per hour I don’t use it intensively and only for notifications etc but it is outstanding. If it’s a software issue, then why is it not affecting all watches?
Chiming into say I had the same problem - watch was not charging even on the charger after updating to 10.1. I removed all 3rd party apps and it seems to be fixed and battery drain is normal. I don't have any of the 3rd party apps I've seen listed in this thread; it would be nice to be able to pinpoint what's causing it.
Try removing the third party apps. That worked for me when everything else failed.
I would ask the other way round: if it would be an hardware issue, every watch of a kind would be affected (assuming e.g. that there are no regional differences).
So the only difference between watches of a kind is the installed software and the configuration (which is also software).
Had some problems with mine before 10.1. Now after 20 hours down to 22% so I probably got another 5 hours of juice which is typical for me with a battery capacity of 80%.
I agree about the configuration, but we are on the same release of OS software.
I think it’s apps on their watches and on their phones that they are mirroring on their watches
Update for any of you who had battery issues like me stemming from the music app.
The issue turned out not to be the app itself, but specific playlists that were causing my issues. I manually added playlists one by one to my watch. Once I found the offending ones, I removed them, and haven’t had issues since.
I don't understand what people mean by "turn off 3rd party apps". Does it mean to turn off background refresh?
on another note, I found another two issues with my iPhone 10.1:
1. overheating while charging (with the original Apple charger): it is so bad that the watch never reaches 100% charge, usually reaching 80%. Also, that affects the attempts to update the phone (I'm trying to install the 10.2 public beta) because either the watch is too hot to have something installed, or it runs under 50% so quickly that the installation is never complete.
2. The Bluetooth connection is unstable. If I go to the BT settings in the watch, even if the watch is connected to the iPhone, it does not list the devices and it shows only the "Searching" text with the spinning cursor next to it.
Has anyone else found similar problems?
on another note, I found another two issues with my iPhone 10.1:
1. overheating while charging (with the original Apple charger): it is so bad that the watch never reaches 100% charge, usually reaching 80%. Also, that affects the attempts to update the phone (I'm trying to install the 10.2 public beta) because either the watch is too hot to have something installed, or it runs under 50% so quickly that the installation is never complete.
2. The Bluetooth connection is unstable. If I go to the BT settings in the watch, even if the watch is connected to the iPhone, it does not list the devices and it shows only the "Searching" text with the spinning cursor next to it.
Has anyone else found similar problems?
I unpaired and setup as a new Watch on Friday or Saturday running 10.1.
This seems a bit steep to drop from 92% to 68% in just under 5 hours, with no workouts or cellular-only time or any media or calls.
Do these energy curves seem unusually steep to anyone else?
This seems a bit steep to drop from 92% to 68% in just under 5 hours, with no workouts or cellular-only time or any media or calls.
Do these energy curves seem unusually steep to anyone else?
That curves look like mine - and I am unhappy, too. That's the reason why I wait on 10.0.1 (AW5) and fear, that newer versions are worse.
I had my bread-baking-day yesterday. And I made my observation again, that extensive use of timers drains my battery extremely: 70% in 5 hours.
As I can't believe a 3rd party app can drain battery in background (due to watchOS design and rules), I suspect deleting the apps has, by side effect, "repaired" a broken sync process between watch and iPhone.
It would be interesting to reinstall the apps, one by one and see how it goes.
It would be interesting to reinstall the apps, one by one and see how it goes.
Hello everyone. I thought the problem
Was the watchOS 10 but it was the battery. Charge your Apple Watch to 100 and turn it off. Leave it like that for 8 hours. Turn on and see the battery level. Mine was 70% so I went to an Apple store
Was the watchOS 10 but it was the battery. Charge your Apple Watch to 100 and turn it off. Leave it like that for 8 hours. Turn on and see the battery level. Mine was 70% so I went to an Apple store
Wow. Well, I do use a fair number of timers from the stock timer app throughout the day. But ideally, that shouldn’t be a big battery tax.