Battery suddenly drops?

Kai Liu

This morning I had 85% left, usually it last a day. But at 4pm I got 5% left. I opened my phone and it shows a drop as the image. Anyone experienced it before?

Brad_Olwin

@Kai-Liu Don’t understand what a drop for image is. Can you upload a photo?

A Former User

@Kai-Liu What were you doing in the early afternoon? What are your watchface, complications, and screen activation settings (like tap or tilt to wake)? Do you have an auto update for apps enabled? Any driving around with Maps communicating updates via notifications to the watch?

From the several massive drops, I’d imagine either some big updates running (we got Wear OS 2.14 just now as well as a bunch of other things recently), or something triggering the screen/watch to wake up, or some app that uses GPS, network, and possibly screen not running properly.

Kai Liu

I was at work so I am not using the watch at all. Just a few Google calendar notifications. But system update may be the reason as you said …

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Kai-Liu if your watch is new there is an enforced SW update

Federico Ormesani

for the battery life please see my post named “Battery Life” posted about 1 hour ago

Jamie BG

I have had a couple of wear OS watches and the occassional battery drain is not unusual.
I find that it is usually due to bluetooth connection issues. It seems as though watches software will continuously hunt for a connection, rather than periodically, thus draining the battery. However based on what I can see from a very recent update, that may no longer be an issue. As I notice that when my watch sleeps it will often come up with the disconnected bluetooth icon, however that goes away pretty quickly once it reconnects, unlike in the past where it had issues re-connecting.