I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about how watchOS 10.1 has been killing their batteries. Oddly enough, I feel like I’m on the opposite side of the spectrum here — my S7’s battery life has improved.

When I updated to watchOS 10, I was always hitting 10% by the end of the day, while almost always dying in the afternoon if I did a workout.

After the update? It’s late and I’m still above 40%. This is a 2 year old device that is at 89% battery degradation. I’m impressed.

What I’m curious about is whether there is a complication or a face that is killing everyone’s battery, or if it happens to be that S7 watches are just not affected. Any thoughts?

  • Bytevan18@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    SE First Gen. it’s been better, not watchOS 9 levels but getting there! Finally.

  • arein114@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    10 was prefect no issues battery was good, 10.1 literally killed the battery, or whatever resource was running was consuming the battery crazy. I THINK I finally got it back to normal only after, I had to unpair and pair again without using the back up, doing it as a new watch. The battery is good now, yesterday it was dropping like 2% every 5min with out even using the watch itself.

    • zmiller834@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah mine is dead in 5 hours, happened yesterday and today’s. Guess I will try to reset. Series 7.

    • justg85@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Same. Had to charge multiple times yesterday. Left it on the charger over night and it only got up to 65%. Thought I was in for another rough day and threw it back on the charger after I did an apple fitness video. At 98% now after getting to 100% around 7. Still need to figure out my cell plan, the reset borked my eSIM.

    • engwish@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Amazing! I definitely want an Ultra next time I upgrade for that sweet sweet battery life.

  • Robinacnh@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I saw in the apple forums that battery drain was a big issue. Mine was having a hard time charging and drained very quickly (AWU2). I then reset it, set it up as a new watch and it’s way better now.

  • Neat-Substance-9274@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So my series 9 said it could not install the update overnight because it was not connected to power. How is a watch you use to monitor sleep supposed to update when you are using it? I cannot seem to ask for the update now, only schedule for again tonight. I will go and check and see if I can initiate it on my phone.

  • arzfan2010@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So I think the issue folks are reporting is more serious than it’s given credit for. We aren’t talking a slight loss of performance. I went from charging my watch once in the morning to 100% and having 50% when I wake up the next day. Now my device won’t fully charge without overheating, and dies every 3-4 hours. It’s not a slight change, but a very serious issue.