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Watch OS 7 Battery Life

Thanks for the trick. I switched off "Unlock my Mac", rebooted my Mac and rebooted my AW5 and it seems incredibly different. Before I had a consumption of 5-8% per hour, now it is back in the range of 2%.
 
Did the unpair/repair this weekend and gave it a few days and I will say it is better, not as good as WatchOS6 but now I am down around 40% when I put it on the charger.
 
Gatto37 said:
Same Here! After reinstalled your watch, you need to enable this feature on your iMac. Open up settings,


I think it is because of Mac OS Catalina does not support watch OS7 or iOS 14. I bet Mac OS Big Sur will fix this issue. The same with handoff. It worked with iOS 13. but iOS 14.
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The „unlock“ problem was solved for me using these steps:



Steps (follow at your own discretion)

  1. Open "Keychain Access"
  2. In "View", enable "Show Invisible Items"
  3. Search for "Auto Unlock"
  4. You should see a whole bunch of application passwords for "Auto Unlock: XXXX's ..."
  5. Select all records and delete (this will reset/disable auto unlock on other Macs if you use multiple Macs)
  6. Whilst still in "Keychain Access", search for "AutoUnlock" (no space)
  7. There should be 4 entries for "tlk" "tlk-nonsync" "classA" "classC"
  8. Select 4 records and delete (don't worry if they re-appear, the system repairs this automatically)
  9. Open "Finder" and navigate to "~/Library/Sharing/AutoUnlock"
  10. There should be two files "ltk.plist" and "pairing-records.plist"
  11. Delete both files
  12. Open "System Preferences" and try enabling auto unlock. You may need to enable it twice, the first attempt will fail.
 
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8 and a half hours.
Already into the red zone.

After four days of letting it “learn” the new iOS it’s time to try an unpair/repair.

*series 4 SS

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I'm at 65% after 3 hours. I went for a 40 minute jog using the Outdoor Run activity tracker and I have sent one text through dictation. Other than that, it's just told me the time. Series 5 44mm with Cellular.
 
I’ve had my AW4 for a few months shy of two years.

I wear it 24/7, only charge it when showering. Been doing this for almost two years. Once per week (give or take) I will have to sleep without it on as it will be low when going to bed.

Since WatchOS7 the watch battery drains like crazy! I left it on the charger a little longer this morning and ended up forgetting it. Picked it up at 11:11am and not even 4 hours later it’s at 58%.

WTF Apple? Planned obsolescence? 😡
 
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Also did a unpair/pair after two days of 0% battery at 8pm. Today is second day with about 50% at 8pm. Seems to be the solution for me ☺️👍
 
enduro0125 said:
For some reason it seems like series 4 are the worst effected by iOS 7
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I don't know, sure were a lot of S5. Including mine. The unpair sequence worked for me. Normal battery life once again. I have NOT renabled the Mac unlock option. I don't plan to change anything for awhile... Having my Watch drain in six hours was stressful enough. :)
 
tkaranik said:
The „unlock“ problem was solved for me using these steps:



Steps (follow at your own discretion)

  1. Open "Keychain Access"
  2. In "View", enable "Show Invisible Items"
  3. Search for "Auto Unlock"
  4. You should see a whole bunch of application passwords for "Auto Unlock: XXXX's ..."
  5. Select all records and delete (this will reset/disable auto unlock on other Macs if you use multiple Macs)
  6. Whilst still in "Keychain Access", search for "AutoUnlock" (no space)
  7. There should be 4 entries for "tlk" "tlk-nonsync" "classA" "classC"
  8. Select 4 records and delete (don't worry if they re-appear, the system repairs this automatically)
  9. Open "Finder" and navigate to "~/Library/Sharing/AutoUnlock"
  10. There should be two files "ltk.plist" and "pairing-records.plist"
  11. Delete both files
  12. Open "System Preferences" and try enabling auto unlock. You may need to enable it twice, the first attempt will fail.
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Did this - cannot get unlock with Mac to work. The MBP reports that it's unable to communicate with the Watch. The Watch, iPhone and Mac have all been rebooted, and the iPhone and Watch are unlocked. Any suggestions?
 
2 yr old S4 here, I reported before in this thread that I had no issues, battery life as usual. That included workouts of ~ 2hr every day as well as 1 man bike ride of ~ 2hrs traded via AW GPS
Today (day 7 after upgrading to os7): went man biking in the morning and as usual tracked it via stock fitness app & GPS, for ~ 2hrs. Route is tracked properly in activity app. Came home ~ 9:30 and noticed that battery had dropped to 35% - ouch ... am hesitant to do the unpair/pair so powered down and up twice and did the same with the phone (11 Pro Max, have no battery issues or other issues with ios14). Then charged the watch to 56% and now ~ 1,5hrs later it is at 51%.
Will closely monitor for the next few days and do unpair/pair if needed.
 
Really bad on my S4 as per comments here. Pretty worrying to be honest.

I don't want to unpair and repair because I'm worried it'll damage my activity data - currently on a 275 day ring streak which I don't want to interrupt! But I've just switched off unlocking my Mac with my watch and rebooted my Mac and watch, so fingers crossed tomorrow will be a little less painful.
 
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For what it’s worth I don’t have a Mac so the unlock feature isn’t what is draining mine.

Just did a unpair/re pair.(reluctantly)
A minor pain in the ass
Especially if you use Apple Pay
Not sure yet if my activity will be effected.

Apple needs to address this ASAP
 
If anyone makes it to the end of this thread *before* doing the un/re-pair, and you have the unlock my mac feature enabled, you might want to try turning it off on your Mac to see if that helps.
 
geekonthepc said:
Really bad on my S4 as per comments here. Pretty worrying to be honest.

I don't want to unpair and repair because I'm worried it'll damage my activity data - currently on a 275 day ring streak which I don't want to interrupt! But I've just switched off unlocking my Mac with my watch and rebooted my Mac and watch, so fingers crossed tomorrow will be a little less painful.
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I'm at 215 days, I've unpaired and repaired 3x during the last 2 weeks. I was worried though... I tried to do it early in the day just in case my activity counters reset for the day - no issues though.
 
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So on my Apple Watch Series 5 (44mm, GPS+LTE), I upgraded to watchOS 7 on day one. After some frustrating early days of bad battery life, I can now report that as of this past Sunday, battery life is back to watchOS 6 levels, and even slightly better.

I did not do an unpair/repair, I just let whatever was going on sort itself out. I did have to do a few "Hard Resets" (holding down both the Digital Crown and Side Button at the same time until the device restarts and you see the Apple Logo, then release both) and that sorted some things out.

Have left the hand washing reminder and countdown on as well.

I know everyones experience will vary, but my battery situation is officially improved and solved.

I am sure watchOS 7.1 will address this for people that absolutely cannot get their battery situation improved/solved.

Good luck with your battery life, everyone!

:apple:
 
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eh270 said:
If anyone makes it to the end of this thread *before* doing the un/re-pair, and you have the unlock my mac feature enabled, you might want to try turning it off on your Mac to see if that helps.
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I only switched off the unlock feature, no pairing. It looks promising. Consumption curve lots flatter.
 
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tkaranik said:
The „unlock“ problem was solved for me using these steps:



Steps (follow at your own discretion)

  1. Open "Keychain Access"
  2. In "View", enable "Show Invisible Items"
  3. Search for "Auto Unlock"
  4. You should see a whole bunch of application passwords for "Auto Unlock: XXXX's ..."
  5. Select all records and delete (this will reset/disable auto unlock on other Macs if you use multiple Macs)
  6. Whilst still in "Keychain Access", search for "AutoUnlock" (no space)
  7. There should be 4 entries for "tlk" "tlk-nonsync" "classA" "classC"
  8. Select 4 records and delete (don't worry if they re-appear, the system repairs this automatically)
  9. Open "Finder" and navigate to "~/Library/Sharing/AutoUnlock"
  10. There should be two files "ltk.plist" and "pairing-records.plist"
  11. Delete both files
  12. Open "System Preferences" and try enabling auto unlock. You may need to enable it twice, the first attempt will fail.
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The trick did work! Thank you!
 
Mighuel said:
This is most interesting! I also lost the ability to unlock my iMac with the watch but haven't yet tried to re-enable it. Battery life is back to normal levels at this point. Thanks for bringing this potential problem up because now I think I rather have better battery life vs. auto unlock enabled. Hopefully this whole thing gets sorted out soon..
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I've tried this trick, and autolock works again!

Mac not unlocking after watchOS 7 update - Apple Community

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Worst battery life. Just in 2 hour battery discharged 14% without any use of it.
Did unpair/re-pair
Restored from backup & also started as a fresh setup. Both case same.

series4 44mm
Watchos 7
 

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SRLMJ23 said:
So on my Apple Watch Series 5 (44mm, GPS+LTE), I upgraded to watchOS 7 on day one. After some frustrating early days of bad battery life, I can now report that as of this past Sunday, battery life is back to watchOS 6 levels, and even slightly better.

I did not do an unpair/repair, I just let whatever was going on sort itself out. I did have to do a few "Hard Resets" (holding down both the Digital Crown and Side Button at the same time until the device restarts and you see the Apple Logo, then release both) and that sorted some things out.

Have left the hand washing reminder and countdown on as well.

I know everyones experience will vary, but my battery situation is officially improved and solved.

I am sure watchOS 7.1 will address this for people that absolutely cannot get their battery situation improved/solved.

Good luck with your battery life, everyone!

:apple:
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How many times you did the hard reset? Cuz i tried this several time but it didn't worked for me.
 
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