I have been using watchOS 4 Beta 2 and the battery life is horrible!!! On a full charge I usually get about 6 to 8 hours of Battery Life on my Series 2 Watch! Where normally I can get through a full day! I’m hoping that Apple adresses in Beta 3! APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS!
watchOS 4 Beta 2: HORRIBLE BATTERY LIFE
The morning I was at 43% after 7 hours. I put my watch on the charger and in the meantime I updated my iPhone to iOS 11 beta 4. I took the fully charged watch off about six hours ago and the watch is at 93% right now. I also toggled on “refresh apps in the background” and it appears to be holding it charged. I’m hopeful that the iOS update may have fixed the battery drainage issue we’ve been suffering for the past several weeks. I’ll report back tomorrow with an update. Others feel free to chime in if you are seeing the same thing.
My relatively new watch got to about 50% by the time I went to bed. Now it is that after abou 7 hours. I've had many instances where it has gone into low power mode by around 7pm.
I’m at 92% 4 ½ hours aftert taking off the charger at 100%. Seems to be better but the day is still young. I’m usually have much more activity with my watch that later in the day. Yesterday at thIs same time, my power was a lot lower.
since the latest iOS beta 3 my watch is back to normal. been off the charger for 7 hours and its still at 70%
I put my watch on the charger 15 hours after I left my house in the morning. Still had 48% left on the watch. This was the first time in two weeks that I didn’t have to charge my watch during the day. This morning, I’m still at 100% three hours after I pulled it off the charger. I think the latest iOS iPhone update may have helped correct the battery drain issue for the watch.
No significant difference for me. Series 0 dead in about 6 hours.
beta 3??? Is out??? There isn,t beta 3
yup i spoke to soon. was great yesterday.. . today i noticed it became disconnected several times and now its back to horrible battery life.
referring to iOS11 beta 3
after two days of seemingly good battery life, I’m back to square one. I was a 56% four hours after I removed it from the charger. Hopefully the next beta will be better.
Turning off Detect Gym Equipment in the workout app settings will drastically improve your battery life.
Beta 3 seems worse!
Beta 2 was completely terrible battery life. My Series 0 would be dead in half a day unless I used it in airplane mode. Also, the calorie tracking in Beta 2 was WAAAAY off. The active calorie count was usually half of what it should be at best, sometimes only 1/4.
Beta 3 took close to 3.5 hours to install, but battery seems to be back to normal thankfully. It only dropped 30% in 12 hours after the update. Also calorie counting is also back to accurate, not to mention less crashing, so I'm definitely happy with this update.
Hi there. Is your heart rate being measured when sitting still? Mine doesn’t seem to calculate unless I spefically open the heart rate app. Thanks.
Yes. I use the Cardiogram app as a watch face complication which shows my current (however often it's checked) heart rate and it was working after Beta 3 update. My calorie count is definitely back to normal on a typcial day worth of exercise and normal use. On the old update it almost never seemed to track calories unless I was doing a workout and even then the numbers were way too low compared to the past 2 years of use.