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
Anyone using Heartwatch? Did a full charge, stayed at 100% for ages. Installed Heartwatch and my battery dropped 1 percent every 5 minutes.
Yes. I have it. Have you tried removing it and see if things change?
The %/hr is roughly what I see on my series 0.
I’ll remove the app tonight and see what my results are tomorrow.
I turned of all the stuff like background refresh and everything that has to do with health and workouts. I also deleted all apps. 11 hours in now and 38% left (and had over 200 notifications on the watch from my dev team running Slack). At least it’s usable now. Hope it gets better with the next update.
So after removing Heartwatch, I'm now at 7 hours running with 52% battery left. Normal notifications from an average day so far,~100-125. Plus I'm using the Modular face with weather.
Hi everyone,
Please help us out by capturing sysdiagnoses from your devices and filing bug reports. The only way we can help is if we get bugs with logs to help root cause battery life issues.
Thanks!
Erik
Has anyone submitted the bugreport yet? No sense in sending duplicates.
Everyone should file their own bug report for battery life issues. You should never assume someone else's bug is the same root cause for your battery life issues.
Thanks!
Done!
Submitted.
Thanks
Same here. Series 0 gets me past lunctime and dies. 7 hours is about max. Beta 3. May be a tiny bit better than Beta 2
Wow, beta 4 is brilliant so far! Been running for 7 hours so far (including 30 min walk with GPS) and still on 95%. I don't think even WatchOS3 managed that.
I'm a 7hrs now and 69% left
location services for Apple Watch Faces Turned off. No third-party apps installed. Modular face with Weather
I agree, great battery life so far on Beta 4.
I agree. Beta 4 is doing much better for battery life. On one of the old activity faces I have just under 50% still at 5pm. Looking sort of normal now.
Well better now. Ended up 14hrs 23min from 100% on 42mm Series 0. But I did notice a substantial change in battery drain after the 50% mark. 7hrs to use the first 31% and 7hr23m to the remaining 69%?
On B4 I went all day (6:30a to 5p) still had like 60% charge. then i remembered I turned off the heart rate monitor. I turned it back on and by 7p i was down to 20%
Turned it back off this morning when I put the watch on (again around 6:30a) and i've still got 93% (9:41a).