yah, this is what Apple are suggesting. I am doing this now - only info you have to add back (which is a pain) is Apple Pay details.
You can put back all your settings and apps but you will lose all your health data.
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Health data is stored in the cloud.
Here's what your Apple Watch backup includes
App-specific data (for built-in apps) and settings (for built-in and third-party apps). For example, Maps, distance, units, and your settings for Mail, Calendar, Stocks, and weather.
App layout on the Home screen
Clock face settings, including your current watch face, customizations, and order
Dock settings, including the order, whether you sort by favorites or recents, and available apps
General system settings, such as brightness, sound, and haptic settings
Health and Fitness data, such as history, awards, Workout and Activity calibration data from your Apple Watch, and user-entered data (To back up Health and Fitness data, you need to use iCloud or an encrypted backup on your computer.)
Back up your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Learn how your Apple Watch data is backed up and what the backup includes.
I updated my series 5 to wOS 7 first day it was available, my watch had died before bed every single day. I use to have a white watch face and a decibel meter on my watch face which I’ve disabled to try and save some battery but no luck. I use to end days with about 30-40%. I’m not doing workouts or anything.
Anyone who has not updated, just don’t even bother. A few years ago I use to run every beta of iOS and watchOS, these days I feel like I’m never updating past the OS that comes installed on these damn devices. My 1 year old $400 watch became dog **** with this damn update.
S4 watch, installed OS7 day one. Battery life terrible, dead by 5PM. OS6 would show approx 40% battery at midnight.
Re-paired, battery life still terrible. Re-paired a second time back to OS6 levels.
Still can't get 'Unlock Mac with watch' to work. Tried methods in this thread but no luck.
Re-paired, battery life still terrible. Re-paired a second time back to OS6 levels.
Still can't get 'Unlock Mac with watch' to work. Tried methods in this thread but no luck.
How did you re-pair your watch? Did you restore from the latest backup? (I.e the one that gave you bad battery life.) I am having no luck re-pairing... I’ve done it like 4 times and still bad battery life.
It's false.
Health data is in iCloud and is managed by your iPhone
Yes, restored from the WatchOS update/backup that was giving terrible battery life.
First day after second re-pair was better, next day back to OS6 battery life.
Maybe wear it and give it a few charging cycles to see if it improves.
We might have to wait until apple release OS7.01 for all the fixes, good luck.
My ECG app has gone AWOL.
Apple support totally useless
Cannot be found on the Watch App Store either
If you can't find the ECG app on your watch, try opening the Watch app on your iPhone and opening the Heart section. This should trigger the option for you to set up/install ECG if it's not already set up. The same thing happened to my mum's watch this week.
This isn't true. I set up my new Series 6 as new and I still have access to all my health data. The important thing, I believe, is to make sure you properly unpair your previous watch from your iPhone before setting up the new one. In the Watch app (on your iPhone), you can click "All Watches" and then, next to your current watch, press the little "i" icon. If you do that, and unpair from there before setting up a new one, you should be fine. I remember coming across this a few years ago and I've had a few watches since then. I always set up as new and I haven't lost any health data yet. Also, I helped my mum set up a new Series 6 this week after upgrading from a Series 3 and, doing the same process, all her health data is still there, despite setting up as new.
Oh, and also make sure that Health is checked in the iCloud section of your Apple ID screen in your iPhone settings.
What watch face and heart-rate complication are you using? Mine has always been a shortcut (ie it has never showed a reading). I use the Meridian face with the default Heart Rate complication.
Yes it was good until yesterday. Died in less than 12 hours. Was never dead before when I woke up. Didn't do anything excessive on it, and didn't see the battery warning at bedtime. Will have to take note of the % this time when I go to bed.
Yea must be hand washing because I turned that on yesterday, and woke up for the first time to a dead watch. Why would it drain it so bad? Just because it is always waiting for a certain movement and/or it just isn't optimized? Or does it keep detecting it if you move a certain way in your sleep? You would think once it goes into sleep mode though all those monitors would disable.
I found hand washing didn’t make a difference on my battery wear.
Only thing that worked was unpair/re pair from back up.
I’ve had a 11 hour (max) battery life after updating to watch OS7. I’ve called apple support, and after 90minutes on the phone we worked out the solution. Like more people do; unpair your watch, reinstall as a new watch. Now I have 20% battery drain in 6 hours. Before I’ve had like 60% loss in that time. So that did the trick.
On the whole with a few days more use I definitely am finding WatchOS 7 is giving me significantly worse battery life than on WatchOS 6. Hopefully after a software update or two, battery life will be on level with WatchOS 6.
Battery life much worse for me also. Had 2 watch friends today tell they are below 20% at 8pm. Normally they’d get 2 days. I’m on 40% at 9pm. Normally go to bed on 70+%
I don’t know if this will help anyone, but a couple of things that drastically helped battery life:
- Remove the compass app from your iPhone - that removed the altimeter and compass on the watch which is a battery sucker
- Turn off motion in accessibility so the fancy animations are off
- Turn of background refreshes on apps you don’t need (do this on the Watch app)
Made a big difference on my watch!
Add me to the list. Never had a battery issue going 6am to 10pm but past few days after the update I’m getting the 10% warning around 4 or 5pm. I’m on a series 4 and do use the workout app and music most days.