They don’t have much battery life to begin with. Good grief.
It’s gotten much better with like the 7th gen onwards. But yeah, there ain’t a ton to spare.
Barely surviving with my series 5 as is
Series 4 looking at you longingly, missing 2 of 3 death rolls
I thought it was just in my head that the battery wasn’t lasting as long after updating. Glad to know I’m not alone! 😂
My Ultra 1 was having this after I did the ios17 upgrade on my phone and the subsequent watchOS update.
I lived with it for a couple of weeks then did a full reset with only a single face installed. I am back to my normal battery life now
Wow I thought it was just my watch’s battery showing its age. I’m glad it’s being addressed.
I think when Apple announces battery life for watches, the measurement is for the current watch on the current software. Over time, yes your battery holds less charge, but also, the software gets new features that the newer hardware handles just fine, but the older hardware starts to struggle with. Apple doesn’t provide data for newer software on older devices. There’s no spec sheet from Apple saying, “if you upgrade your series 5/6 to WatchOS 9, you should expect this new, lower battery life.”
But we all know newer, better features are going to use more compute - that’s just how technology works. So you either 1) cut off older devices from the newer features, which users get grumpy about, 2) provide the new features but don’t say anything about the impact or 3) provide new features but say how it impacts older devices and maybe provide toggles and system controls to enable/disable. I don’t think #3 is really in Apple’s DNA - that’s more of a Microsoft approach.
The chip in the Series 6 is essentially identical to the one in the Series 9 and all in between. Your explanation works for a lot of cases, but not this one.
Series 9 is a new chip
Is it? Thank fuck. That was an inexcusable lifetime for a wearable chip.
Tell me about it! My old series 6 was getting really rough battery life (hence my big post about it). Series 9 feels really good. These batteries don’t do too well after three years…
I had a similar issue on watchOS 9 and apple after many attempts would not help me revert the update which seems to have caused the issue. I ended up having to pay for Apple care and get a replacement watch, which I refuse to let update. Pretty annoying. I definitely won’t be allowing my current one to update to version 10 now. It’s sad that the bar is this low, but at least Apple doesn’t force you to update in this case (at least so far)
Luckily you’re happy with just their tip in your ass!
Weird. I have a series 9 and this thing sips battery. After a full day I’m down to maybe 60% and that’s if I heavily use it.
The problem with this is that the battery capacity will be greatly reduced, meaning it will need to be replaced sooner than normal.
