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Watch OS 7 Battery Life
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Did a strength training of 30mins now after the unpairing procedure. Battery usage came down from 10% to 5% as it was with watchOS 6.
Watchos 7.0.2 allegedly fixes battery problems.
Downloading to see if it Actually does
Downloading to see if it Actually does
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Thx for letting us know. Will update immediately as it was simply horrible for me.
Thanks for posting that - hadn't gone to look for it and you've saved me the time.
As I'm having neither of those issues, I'll wait a bit on updating. Never know these days which other issues might get introduced. 😈
Issue not resolved. Without any using this watch & watch was in fully standby, battery percentage goes down to 92% within just 1.5 hr.
Pathetic !!!!
Strange, mine has only lost 3 percent in 7 hours, before 7.0.2 I was losing 20 plus percent with the watch just sitting there.
After an update, the Apple Watch needs some time to calibrate, make some background changes, etc.
Only after a few days, we can judge whether the update has solved the issue. Let's hope so. I crave for the battery stability I had in Watch OS 7 (2 days without exception, while doing several workouts and 'normal' usage).
So my S6 has bullet proof battery life so far (with my settings it uses around 40-50% per 24 hours).
However I picked up a second hand S5 last week, only 6 months old and with 99% battery health, and that has been draining very fast. Up to 70-80% in 24 hours. I installed 7.0.2 this morning an in its first hour off charge it had already lost 8%.
So I've just re-paired as a new watch, with no extra apps installed, and will see how it gets on over the next couple of days.
However I picked up a second hand S5 last week, only 6 months old and with 99% battery health, and that has been draining very fast. Up to 70-80% in 24 hours. I installed 7.0.2 this morning an in its first hour off charge it had already lost 8%.
So I've just re-paired as a new watch, with no extra apps installed, and will see how it gets on over the next couple of days.
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If it remains the same after another day, then it's time to go through your apps to see if one of them is creating the issue for you:
Unpair the watch then re-pair it setting it up as new - don't load a backup.
Make sure you've not loaded any third party apps onto the watch.
See if the problem persists on a plain-vanilla setup.
If it does, then it's possible you have a hardware fault and should contact Apple for assistance.
Otherwise, start adding apps back one or two at a time and see if battery life changes.
For comparison - my 44mm S6 on 7.0.1 averages just under 3% per hour battery consumption through the day, normal usage, and not counting workouts.
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Seems to be the same here: 84% after more than 4h of normal usage - no workouts. Hope it lasts like that, seems normal again.
I've noted this before regarding battery drain, but check your Background App Refresh in your Watch app on your phone and turn off the apps that don't need to have it on. When I upgraded to my S6 and set it up, Apple turned Background App Refresh to ON for *all* the apps on my watch.
While I won't argue against turning it off for unused apps, I'll also say that I've only turned off a small number of these yet still have good battery life.
One should NOT need to turn off core functionality.
Looking at my background-app-refresh setting, here are the ones presently turned off: Audiobooks, Breathe, News, Noise, VoiceMemos.
Everything else is on.
Oh sure, I understand. I'm just noting it because I once had an enormous battery drain issue with an iPhone after an iOS upgrade and it turned out to be the fact that Apple automatically turned on Background App Refresh for all 67 million apps on my iPhone, a few of which were super glitchy in how they handled refreshing in the background, which killed my battery.
Understandable.
It's a personal thing, but I never turn background app refresh on as I'm not convinced it's necessary for me to know every little detail immediately.
The battery saving is just a welcome asset here.
My battery life was terrible after the update. Dropped from 100% to 54 in 10 hrs. and 19% overnight just sitting there. Today I went through all the settings and I noticed that it was still trying to sync a playlist. It just kept saying "Waiting" and noticed it was stuck on one song. I deleted that playlist and designated another one, and it loaded onto the watch just fine. Will log my usage today and see if battery life improves after this fix. Here's hoping.
Battery life is back to normal after 7.0.2. 81% after 8 hrs standby. ~2.5%/hr.