Apple Watch owners: I suggest you avoid the latest update!

[thewayne]

I own a Watch 5, so it could be related to mine being on the older side, and I know my battery is a little bit weaker, but it is sucking my battery dry! I pulled it off the charger around 7:30 this morning, and now, less than 12 hours later, I'm getting a warning that it's at under 10% battery charge!

Normally when I get home from work, 9 or 10 hours later, I'm sitting at 50-60% charge! So someone really screwed the pooch on this one. I haven't changed any settings, I'm not doing anything unusual, so I don't know what's up. I don't have time to take a look at any forums right now, but I would avoid the current update. Maybe the next will offer some relief.

Comments

[disneydream06]

I think I will stick with my Eco Drive regular watch. lol.........
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

Apple has been doing a lousy job with their updates of late!

[disneydream06]

Got everybody hooked and now they can sluff off, huh? :o
Well, not everybody, I am a Non "I" owner. lol...

[murakozi]

So now they're copying Google instead of the other way around?

[thewayne]

Sadly seems that way.

[suchasnack]

Darn, that must be frustrating! Can you downgrade to the previous update, as you wait for the new one to be pushed?

[thewayne]

That's the problem.  Unless you're in the developer program, there's no way for an average user to downgrade an iPhone, Watch, or iPad to a previous version!  And a couple of weeks after a patch or new version is released, the certificates for the previous version are revoked, which makes it impossible.  Constant complaint about Apple!  I currently carry two iPhones: a 13 Mini that my Watch connects to - which has no cell plan and runs the current and up to date iOS, and my 8 which my hearing aids connect to and is my phone phone.  They've screwed up how hearing aids work and until that gets fixed, I can't use my 13 Mini!  I keep hoping they'll fix it, but I also have the problem of my hearing aid maker hasn't updated their app in over a year! sigh

[suchasnack]

I didn't know that, yikes!

Well, that's... a series of fuck ups all piling up together, wow. I'm sorry they're causing you all of this trouble ;_;

[thewayne]

They screwed up hearing aids way early in the year, and have been messing with battery life on devices off and on for most of the year.  I have no idea what's going on over there in Cupertino, but it ain't good.

[moxie_man]

Something I don't need to worry about. My Timex has never needed an update. Eventually, it'll need a $3 battery, but it has never needed an update.

[thewayne]

It so makes me wish that Pebble hadn't screwed up and blown up the company.

[lovelyangel]

Interesting. I got my Apple Watch last November, and by default, I think, it was configured to automatically update the OS overnight when the watch is attached to the charger. But, coincidentally, I changed that setting upon this current update. Now it just reminds me every morning that an update is waiting. The reminder is kind of annoying.

I tend to like to wait a while before installing new OS releases – mainly to see if there's any fallout.

(My watch never updated overnight because I never keep my watch on the charger overnight. In the morning I'd get a reminder anyway. I'd always manually update the OS.)

[thewayne]

I got doubly-messed with this morning.  I have a novelty charger that looks like an original 1984 Macintosh, my watch slides in.  It looks cute.  My watch died during the night!  100% charged at 11pm, drained during the night.  Maybe I should get the battery replaced.  Regardless, 6:05 alarm did not wake me.  Got up at 7am, put it on the charger.  At 8am, it was only at about 20%.  I now have a charger in my car after the last similar fiasco a month or two ago, so it got juice going down the mountain to work, about 35 minutes or so, and is now topping off on my desk. My watch I can wait for .1 releases, and I guess that's what I'll do.  My iPhone 13 Mini, I'll keep updating in hopes they'll fix the hearing aid problem - which they haven't yet.  I have a feeling I'll be waiting for the next major iOS update.  Until then, I'll keep using my iPhone 8.