I think the drain is fixed. My watch is at 6 hours and only 9% drain with all my alerts it’s had.
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iPhone Excessive Battery Drain Apple Watch since iOS 13 Beta 5
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Appears to be fixed for me. Been wearing my watch for about an hour so far this morning and still at 100% battery. Prior to the newest beta I'd be down 10-12% by now
I had to reset and restore my Watch series 4 from a back up. Since then the battery life has been great. I went a full 12 hours yesterday and was only down to 75% and when I woke up the next day it was only down to 50%. Huge improvement.
I am now on iOS 13 PB5 (DB6) with WatchOS 5.3 and the battery life is the best I’ve ever had (based on a single charge cycle to date admittedly)
My iPhone XR lasted 2 days and 2 hours and my Watch Series 4 an incredible 2 days and 12 hours to reach 3% (with usage of 4hrs 53mins).
Charged them both today and hoping for more of the same.
My iPhone XR lasted 2 days and 2 hours and my Watch Series 4 an incredible 2 days and 12 hours to reach 3% (with usage of 4hrs 53mins).
Charged them both today and hoping for more of the same.
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Wow sucks to hear! I too have pretty much the best battery life ever from my Apple watch since the last PB was installed on my phone!!
Did you reboot your watch after latest PB was installed on the phone? Nothing directed me to do so but I did it anyway. My theory was that there might be a runaway process on the watch side also.
I have also resetted the watch. Gonna look at it again. Before I only had to charge it 1-2 times a week. And now 3-4 times.
Yep.
Real high quality release they are gearing up for.
If you don't know it already, iOS 13 release is going to be a disaster. No, this is not "just beta" and all will be magically fixed in the next 4 weeks. That's not how it works. Anyone with experience can tell this is going to be one god awful release that takes several more months to approach anything close to the stability of iOS 12.
Real high quality release they are gearing up for.
If you don't know it already, iOS 13 release is going to be a disaster. No, this is not "just beta" and all will be magically fixed in the next 4 weeks. That's not how it works. Anyone with experience can tell this is going to be one god awful release that takes several more months to approach anything close to the stability of iOS 12.
I know, right? Apple Mail is broken, Safari on the iPad is freezing all the time. Second problem is because iPadOS has problems with the RAM management.
With the latest beta update, watch battery life is back to normal. So relieved. I am not going to signing up for Beta version next summer. This year's experience has not been good at all. My keyboard freezes up, some functions do not work in Outlook, Chrome crashes and so forth. Not a very stable OS.
Installed iOS 13.1 (non-beta - general availability) on my iPhone X overnight - both it and my Apple Watch Series 4 were on charge until 7am. Left for work with both and it's now 4.30pm and the AW4 is at 8% battery - I normally get a day and a half charge out of the watch, certainly never finish the day with anything less than about 60%. This clearly wasn't fixed for all users when it came out of beta.
