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?
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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.
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.
Same here s8
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.
Yeah mine is dead in 5 hours, happened yesterday and today’s. Guess I will try to reset. Series 7.
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.
I’m at the 18th hour and at 53%. Great improvement
Amazing! I definitely want an Ultra next time I upgrade for that sweet sweet battery life.
My Ultra 2 can be used for over 50 hours with 10.1. Much improved battery life.
They released two updates back to back and I have no idea what it did better tbh
Mine has improved as well!
SE First Gen. it’s been better, not watchOS 9 levels but getting there! Finally.
No issues either with my new SE gen 1
Series 5 here with 85% battery health. My battery life was good yesterday and seems good today so far.
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.
Same here goes the full 24 hours with aod
Same here. I’m using it on a U2 that replaced a U1, and a Series 8.
My apple watch ultra 2 went from 60% to low battery message within an hour. Will recharge and check again.
I reset mine and set it up as new. It’s better now.
That’s wild. Can you list your complications and do you have AOD enabled?
Make sure your phone is also updated. There is a battery bug that if one of the two devices is not on the new .1 update it will kill your battery quick