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?
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.