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

[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.