No need to delete. Launch the watch app on your iPhone, go to smart stack, media apps, turn off allow live activities.
Alternatively, in smart stack, turn off auto launch live activities.
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S10 Battery Life
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Alternatively, in smart stack, turn off auto launch live activities.
That’s what I already had, live activities off. And still I had battery drain when in my car. It’s the only place I listen via Bluetooth and where that now playing app was launched on the watch when I used Spotify on my iPhone. (At home I have one Sonos speaker). Since I removed the app, no battery drain in my car anymore
I deleted Now Playing and still had a problem with Spotify. I had to uninstall the Spotify app too and that did the trick. Without Now Playing, the watch just loaded Spotify directly. Listened to a lot of music today and still at 8:30pm I still have 60% battery. Thanks for the help everyone.
Similar for me on my S10, around 12%
My 2-year old S4 with 83% battery health would lose 18%
Oh good that it worked! I deleted the Spotify app on the first day I had my watch after the app got installed automatically. On my phone Spotify drains my battery too, I listen directly via my sonos speaker at home because of that.
Anybody upgrade from a series 7 and if so, notice a battery life improvement? My series 7 stated battery health is down to 80 percent and I can no longer make it thru the day without a recharge unless I'm very sedentary and not record any workouts. Tomorrow I am visiting Apple store to see about feasibility of having battery replaced which they tell me will cost $112. Very disappointed Apple has not increased the battery life and also they choose not to settle a lawsuit which I have to think they could, that removes the blood oxygen sensor feature. I charge the watch in the evening, between the evening meal and bedtime and when watch was new, I typically had 20-30% left at time of charging. I'm hoping if I have a battery change, it will be restored to that level.
Sounds about right. Replace the battery on year 3 and get the latest series on year 6. Good value for money.
The display and SoC are more energy efficient but they decreased the battery capacity to make the watch thinner. You might be able to get more out of an S10 than a new S7.
Apple will likely sick with '18hrs' as a target for a while.
Interesting after conflicting Apple phone tech support, I visited Apple store genius bar to see about feasibility of getting watch 7 battery service. He said they won't do it until diagnostics show it needs replacement. I asked if similar to I believe phone, if the battery life drops below 80 percent, will battery health check then say it needs servicing. He stated not necessarily, he has seen some battery watch health check in the low 70s percent and still state to be ok. He said, usually diagnostics won't fail until a sharp sudden drop, rather then a gradual, steady decline. Another conflicting statement when I asked if series 10 had still had blood oxygen sensor that could possibly be enabled if lawsuit settled, he said not, it's not even present on the watch. I thought non-USA series 10 watches still had the feature?
Per reports, non-USA S10 DO have SPO2, so I'm guessing the Apple person was wrong, and a software update could enable it.
As for battery life, I went from a S8 to this 46mm S10, and where I used to wake up and *maybe* have between 3-10% left (often I would wake up in the middle of the night and it would be asking me if I wanted to go to "power-saving", and I would worry my alarm wouldn't wake me, so it wasn't helpful, etc, blah blah), whereas now, with the S10, when I wake up it's at around 55-60% *LEFT*. So, I'm very happy with the battery. Now, I don't do a TON on my watch...it's always on with a display that has as many complications as possible and I usually use the GPS/workout mode for about 30-60 minutes per day in the AM after I've charged it back to 100%.