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?

  • arein114@alien.topB
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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.

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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.

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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.