I’ve had my Series 4 sinch launch. Totally fine with it and not looking to upgrade. But after updating my Series 4 to WatchOS 10, I’ve been having battery drain issues. Prior to the update, I get home from work around 6pm with 50% battery left. Now, the watch is dead at 10am. I updated to 10.1 hoping for a fix but then, the watch won’t boot up.

Went to the Apple Store and got a Series 9. It sucks that a software update made my watch unusable.

  • PhilthyPDX@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t planning on updating my 4 to wOS 10, which is why I was so stoked woot had a refurb sale today!! So I have a gold 7 on the way and I’m actually gonna activate the watch cell service now too! Want to see if I can leave my phone at home more often.

    • xopherjorge@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Congrats! My Series 4 was a Cellular but deactivated the plan during the pandemic since I was mostly at home. Never felt the need to reactivate. This time I just went for the GPS model.

      • PhilthyPDX@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I just read that 4s are NOT the only series experiencing battery issues on wOS10! Apparently some 7s and 9s are too, so careful out there upgrading older models to current software! Apple is SO MUCH BETTER at this than most companies, but their hardware is so durable for me that at some point I have to turn off auto-updates and make backups in case I manually to a release that breaks something.