Once downloaded and verified the update was extremely fast on the series 4.
I didn’t even notice the watch going through the normal “circle” and reboot.
Maybe it was just a patch, rather than a complete update.
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WatchOS 5.0.1 draining battery
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Once downloaded and verified the update was extremely fast on the series 4.
I didn’t even notice the watch going through the normal “circle” and reboot.
Maybe it was just a patch, rather than a complete update.
Mine seems normal, but I only updated it last night. But so far today it is having similar battery life as before, and the same overnight.
No doubt it was just a patch and not a full update. It took near 45 minutes for my iPhone to download when we had the full update.
I had a weird issue this morning with my AW3. When I put it on the charger, it wouldn't charge. I removed and replaced it several times with no luck. This never happened before installing 5.0.1. When I tried again after waiting a few minutes, it finally began to charge. I hope this was just a one-off glitch.
5.0.1 has made my already excellent battery life BETTER!
1h 10m usage
8h 39m standby
89%
Charging speed is normal.
Glad I'm not having any of the things people mention here!
1h 10m usage
8h 39m standby
89%
Charging speed is normal.
Glad I'm not having any of the things people mention here!
I updated mine last night before bed. Saw that it had finished before I went to sleep so put it on the charger and it was at 100% this morning when I put it on at 6:00am. It ‘s 3:48 PM and I’m at 77% so battery seems to be working fine for me in my opinion.
They are not even in the beta one of 5.1, so think months not days.
But battery life on my S4 is very much in line with my S2, and both took a bit hit with watchOS 5. I sleep with it on and it used to need about half an hour charging a day and now it’s more like an hour.
5.01 is too early to tell but it’s not better for me yet.
Battery seems the same to me as well. Upgraded & charged last night. Got expected usage out of it today.
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Turn off auto start workout. Saves you about 10% battery a day. It’s a big hit to the watch battery. Can’t wait to see what ECG does with my garbage heart
Does “Start Workout Reminder” and “End Workout Reminder” truly use up that much battery life?
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Battery seems the same to me as well. Upgraded & charged last night. Got expected usage out of it today.
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Turn off auto start workout. Saves you about 10% battery a day. It’s a big hit to the watch battery. Can’t wait to see what ECG does with my garbage heart
Start does. I went from having 63% at the end of the day to 73% at the end of the day with just the start reminder off. I left the stop reminder on. You might squeeze some more juice by turning the stop reminder off, I just haven’t tried yet. Still testing the features and impact out. If it saves more I’ll for sure be turning it off when ECG drops.
Battery seems the same to me as well. Upgraded & charged last night. Got expected usage out of it today.
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Turn off auto start workout. Saves you about 10% battery a day. It’s a big hit to the watch battery. Can’t wait to see what ECG does with my garbage heart
Great tip, will try. And ditto. Let’s start the Garbage Heart Club.
Thanks for the tip, I turned off automatic workout detection (start and stop) to save on battery life,
Wearing while sleeping. Start workout detection off.
86% when I went to bed, theatre mode.
53% on waking up after massive sleep in.
Os4 and series 2 would lose about 15-20% in that circumstance.
It’s not a biggie, I always charge every day, I just have to charge a bit longer.
86% when I went to bed, theatre mode.
53% on waking up after massive sleep in.
Os4 and series 2 would lose about 15-20% in that circumstance.
It’s not a biggie, I always charge every day, I just have to charge a bit longer.
Turning off WiFi helped tremendously for me. With it on, whenever I was away from my phone (I have LTE hooked up) I would get an X the first time I raised my watch. It would go away when I next raised it. It kept hooking up to “public” or open networks that I really couldn’t use or get on. Turning it off completely had alleviated the red X problem and my battery life improved a lot (particular when I’m using GPS on a run, when I don’t have my phone).