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watchOS 26 Beta Thread
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RC has been a buggy mess on my U2. Water lock wouldn't enable, graphical glitches through the roof, and horrendous battery life. Pulled the trigger and unpaired and repaired. I can happily report that its significantly better. Time will tell on battery but water lock works again.
An hour later, it got down to 1 minute remaining.
“Update failed”
Any idea what to do to fix it?
edit.
deleted the update, restarted phone and watch. Failed again.
“Update failed”
Any idea what to do to fix it?
edit.
deleted the update, restarted phone and watch. Failed again.
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Yeah, battery life tanked for me today.
Restored at 9am PT, then charged to full. Its 1:45~pm PT now, so almost 5 hours. Used the watch as normal, battery is at 96%. Much better then yesterday after installing the update. I unpair, repaired and restored from the backup. Took about 30 minutes, but its running significantly better.
For the fist time ever, my S10 dropped to 10% while in bed (about 7:30AM.)
I put it on charge, as I didn’t want to torture the battery.
It probably would have lasted with LPM.
I hope this is just because it’s indexing.
I put it on charge, as I didn’t want to torture the battery.
It probably would have lasted with LPM.
I hope this is just because it’s indexing.
I think it is - it takes a day or two to settle down. My S10 is easily on course for 24 hours with normal use - on WatchOS 11 it was around 20. S7 not only had a battery health jump form 82% -> 86% (lol so annoying as looking forward to a replacement), but battery life is probably back to how it was a couple of years ago. I am pretty sure the increased battery life claimed on the new models is something to do with software rather than hardware.
I’ve been holding off until RC since there’s no way to downgrade. Battery seems to have taken a hit and it’s quite laggy especially in the Control Center.