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?
24 hours later, I’m sitting at 30%. Massive improvement.
Which Apple Watch do you use?
Se1
Meanwhile my SE1 has been terrible after the update. Even with a fairly degraded battery I can usually end a day with ~10-35% to spare, depending on exercise, yesterday I was already at 49% by the afternoon. After my 40 minute run it was all the way down to 15% and I had to charge it for bit, by 11 it had gone down again from 66% to 22%.
It’s absolutely murdered my battery life.
Definitely going to have to see if there’s a watch face or complication to blame or something. I did upgrade from WatchOS 9, so maybe there’s some kind of background indexing too? I dunno if major updates do that.