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WatchOS 2.0 GM
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It has obliterated my battery. I don't even have anything on the watch and yesterday it was at 10% before noon. It is at 60% right now and I just took it off charge at 9. I haven't even looked at the screen. Going to attempt to unpair and pair it again to see if that works.
A re-pair and restore from backup worked for both me and my wife. Battery is seemingly back to normal.
Unfortunately the unpair/pair ended up taking me down to about 45% battery by the time it finished. This is after 3 hours of standby/light use, but it has taken it a bit to drop 1% since then so I am hoping that actually did the trick. I actually had to force a reboot earlier due to it locking up during the unpairing process. I think I am going to avoid any more Watch Betas... The iOS betas always go smoothly enough to still use the device but the watch became pretty unusable fairly often. Live and learn lol.
If you have a massive battery drain and haven't cold booted the watch, always do that first before anything. See if it continues.
If it continues, check the watch app on the iPhone and look at usage. Usually you will see a large usage time... Maybe 6 hours when you haven't even done anything. That can be a third party app stuck running or some type of constant movement back and forth of data for no reason.
I would hate to see people re-pairing when it might just be a bad app or cold boot problem.
I've had a few massive drains of the battery and a shutoff and back on fixed it every time. Never needed a repair. And then watch the battery drain and compare to usage. Remove some third party apps and see if it goes away. You can always add them back with one toggle.
I tried rebooting and it didn't seem to solve the issue. I finally just re-paired it as a new watch (not a massive deal since I had nothing on it) and it has slowed down a fair bit so it should get me through the day at this point. I do generally try a reboot and I know the "stuck app" issue all too well. At launch the stuck app ended up causing me a lot of grief. I think my problem is resolved at this point. I should know by the end of today. I still think I am going to avoid watch betas from now on lol.
Apple Watch 2.0 GM Version number?
I've been on the beta and just updated to the GM for IOS9. I never got a notification though in the app to upgrade the watch OS to 2.0 GM. The Watch OS 2.0 version I'm currently running is 13S5325c. Is this the GM version? Can someone confirm this?
I've been on the beta and just updated to the GM for IOS9. I never got a notification though in the app to upgrade the watch OS to 2.0 GM. The Watch OS 2.0 version I'm currently running is 13S5325c. Is this the GM version? Can someone confirm this?
It actually isn't.
Weird.. I 100% have the GM installed and that's the build number I have..
It actually is. Once you install that profile, you get to the Software Update screen and it says
watchOS 2.0 GM Seed
Mel
The build number they were referring to actually wasn't. Not the build I posted. .
I now wake up to 95% after 7-8 hours of sleep. I wear my watch to bed and set a silent alarm and use to see battery drain of about 1% per hour and now it is even better. Overall, the battery seems to be even better.
I have the exact same problem. Had excellent battery life with the previous betas waking up at 6, 90min cardio session, active during the day and still had between 50-40% battery left by 11pm. Consistently. But after installing the GM yesterday morning, my watch now goes to 10% in a few hours... Not sure how re-pairing will help, but i'll give it a try.Yup, severe battery drain on the GM for me too, not that it should matter for the GM, but it's tied to a dev account too.