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   Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:44:46 JST Warner Crocker

   Battery life on Apple Watch Series 10 seems to have gotten worse not better with watchOS 11.0.1. Every morning I see it drop 25% or so within a couple of hours of waking. (I do not use it for sleep tracking and it’s on a charger all night). Charge it back up to 100% after the drop and some days it feels like expected some days not.

   Could be an errant app or a lemon.

   Anyone else seeing similar?
   #AppleWatch

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:50:38 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Kaz

     @kaz Thanks for that.

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     Kaz (kaz@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:50:39 JST Kaz

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     @WarnerCrocker Not sure which watch exactly he has but my partner was having similar problems. He turned off a lot of background processes and the smart charging where it doesn't charge all the way to 100%. That didn't help at first so he did a hard power cycle on the watch and his phone and now it's behaving normally. Not sure exactly which step actually is the fix!

     It was crazy, he'd lose like 30% in the morning & end up getting a low battery alert by dinner.

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     Chris Mackay 🇨🇦 (tantramar@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 01:17:22 JST Chris Mackay 🇨🇦

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     @WarnerCrocker My Series 9 has been performing as expected; like you, I don’t sleep with it and charge it at night. Haven’t been paying particular attention, but haven’t gotten any low-battery warnings at all. 🤷♂️

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     Devon Dundee (devondundee@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 01:32:52 JST Devon Dundee

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     @WarnerCrocker Battery life on my Series 10 has been very unpredictable. Some days, it’s great, and other days, it’s way shorter than expected. I’ve been telling myself it’s weirdness left over from the initial setup, but that seems less and less plausible as time goes on.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 01:37:15 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Devon Dundee

     @devondundee Feels very much like what I’m experiencing. First two days after 11.0.1 it seemed to be expected behavior, but since then every morning and day is an adventure.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 05:59:34 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Sumocat 🐈‍⬛

     @Sumocat I do the same. I’ve also noticed over the years that it can take 3 days or so for things to settle in. I typically reboot after about 4 days as well.

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     Sumocat 🐈‍⬛ (sumocat@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 05:59:35 JST Sumocat 🐈‍⬛

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     @WarnerCrocker Did you try turning it off and on again? 😼

     No, for real, I do a restart (or off/on for Watch) on my 3 devices after updating, and if I forget, I’ll usually notice some weirdness like battery drain.

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     ms. liz (unknown8bit@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 12:26:59 JST ms. liz

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     @WarnerCrocker my series 10 battery life seems better after the update, but I also turned off smart stack’s auto launch live activities (before the update), which also helped a bit