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Watch OS 7 Battery Life

Took my watch off the charger at 100% at about 5:45 am today, and at 1:45 pm today, I'm at 80%.
 
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First day after the new update. Took the watch off the charger around 9:30pm at 99% last night. Slept the night, workout in the morning, put it back on the charger about 9:00pm tonight and it was at 27%. Much better and about what it was before OS 7.
 
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benhollberg said:
First day after the new update. Took the watch off the charger around 9:30pm at 99% last night. Slept the night, workout in the morning, put it back on the charger about 9:00pm tonight and it was at 27%. Much better and about what it was before OS 7.
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Yeah, it is early, but today was much better battery life wise after the update.
 
deeddawg said:
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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Apple already checked my watch remotely through analytics & found all hardware is working fine. They are still looking for the reason of this issue. Still no update. They have installed a profile in my watch to get the log & will review this.
 
Hello
I have a series 5 watch and I haven't done any of the latest updates yet due to the battery issue so I'm still on watch OS6. I have read all the posts from the beginning to today and I would like you to advise me very objectively whether or not to update my watch with the feedback from the 7.0.2 update. What would you do in my place ?
thanks in advance
 
With OS6 and current OS7 release I get average 2.5-3% per hour on my Series 5 LTE. Some days are 4-5. AOD on, I get about 5% vs 2.5-3% with AOD off. I think getting 5% per hour is still pretty good. 5.5% would give you about 18 hours which meets Apple’s general specs.

I think there too many people diving too deep into the weeds on this. Tune your device and disable anything on your watch you do not use.

If battery is such a concern, charge it when you are idle (breaks, driving, etc...). Get a battery bank for portability. Small investment to save on battery health if that is a concern.


Edit: Currently, watch has been on my wrist for 2 hours and I have 1% loss so far. That’s new for me. Maybe the update did do something.
 
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iOnAsJ said:
2%...
That's 50h in total? How's that even possible? Or do you put it in power saving mode? 😁
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haha 😁

I was getting about 40% per 24 hours but that's if I don't do a workout and without AOD. I don't have cellular activated and I just use the watch for notifications from texts etc, no music streaming or anything.

I use AOD now though so it's dropped to about 50% per 24 hours.

In the S6 battery life thread I posted some screen shots 👍
 
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wolfe48 said:
With OS6 and current OS7 release I get average 2.5-3% per hour on my Series 5 LTE. Some days are 4-5. AOD on, I get about 5% vs 2.5-3% with AOD off. I think getting 5% per hour is still pretty good. 5.5% would give you about 18 hours which meets Apple’s general specs.
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Interesting. With my S6 and AOD on I'm seeing slightly under 3% per hour on average not counting workouts.
 
wolfe48 said:
I should have added in use the infograph watch face as well. The S6 is advertised that AOD is better tuned though right?
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FWIW, I also use the Infograph watch face as my usual one. One thirdparty complication, other five complications are Apple apps.

I don't know that I've seen anything suggesting a tuning of AOD on the S6 - merely that the AOD brightness range is extended, allowing it to be brighter in sunlight - a scenario in which the S5's AOD was maxed out.
 
deeddawg said:
FWIW, I also use the Infograph watch face as my usual one. One thirdparty complication, other five complications are Apple apps.

I don't know that I've seen anything suggesting a tuning of AOD on the S6 - merely that the AOD brightness range is extended, allowing it to be brighter in sunlight - a scenario in which the S5's AOD was maxed out.
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Oh yes you are right. The brightness range was extended. My mistake.

Either way I would hope the S6 out performs S5 by any means.
 
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Jumped in and took 7.0.1 two days ago and battery life is slightly better than OS6 which made me happy. Just checked and had 18 hours on standby with 59% left. granted that includes 8 hours of sleep with AOD off. Still slightly better than OS6 and it really feels faster and more responsive than earlier.
 
took my watch off at 6am. 10% battery left at 4:30pm. Series 5 on OS 7.0.2 with 100% battery health. What am I doing wrong? I recorded a 45 minute workout but other than that it's just unlocking my mac and regular text notifications
 
deadlock said:
I was back to normal on 7.0.1 after re-pairing. Since updating to 7.0.2 I’m back to charging twice a day.
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I was in similar situation with 7.01 with having to unpair/re-pair.
7.02 does not Eem to make any difference but it's only out for 2 days now ...
if you're having drain issues again, best I can suggest is to do the unpair/re-pair again and don't update for at least a week when new updates come available. what AW do you have?
 
jz0309 said:
I was in similar situation with 7.01 with having to unpair/re-pair.
7.02 does not Eem to make any difference but it's only out for 2 days now ...
if you're having drain issues again, best I can suggest is to do the unpair/re-pair again and don't update for at least a week when new updates come available. what AW do you have?
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I’ve got an AW5 WiFi
I’m planning to do re-pair tomorrow evening if the battery dips again

although last time the bank flaggedme the next time I used Apple Pay on the watch.
 
deadlock said:
I’ve got an AW5 WiFi
I’m planning to do re-pair tomorrow evening if the battery dips again

although last time the bank flaggedme the next time I used Apple Pay on the watch.
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hmm, obviously you have to add all your cards again in the re-pair process, I did get emails for all of mine telling me that my card has been enabled for Apple Pay ... good luck with the unpair/re-pair, it a p.i.t.a.
 
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I have done the unpair to be sure but it was OK before
Yesterday I took my watch of the charger at 6:30 and it was at 55% battery at 22:00 (no workout)
It seems normal in runs.
 
After the latest release (AW 7.0.2.), my AW kept on draining. When I charged it to 100%, it dropped within the hour to 85-90%, with afterwards some severe drops during the day (normal usage, not even workouts). Imagine this during my workouts... ;-)

As I was fed up with it, I've (once again) decided to unpair the AW.
However, after unpairing the watch, I've immediately reinstalled my iPhone (from backup) as well and then re-paired the AW.
4h further, my AW still has 84% juice left, so this might 've actually helped me out.

Don't know what might 've caused it, but my iPhone has also gained some significant change in speed/reactiveness. Perhaps some bad indexing in the background?
Either way, I'll keep an eye on it during the next days and will share my impressions.

The unpairing - reinstalling -re-pairing is perhaps a tip for others as well.
 
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