Apple Watch 11 upgraded to 26.1 and battery problems solved :-)
so I got an iwatch 11 a month or so ago and it had watchOS 26 on it - its cellular which I use for runs - and the battery was terrible. It literally would last for maybe 5-6 hours. I turned off cellular other than for my 45 minute run, I turned off everything (all the things I bought it for mostly) my scratched up iwatch 4 thats 8 yrs old still still lasts like 17 hours. I was pretty unimpressed and about to schedule a Genius Bar appointment and give it back to them when voila my watch updated to 26.1 and lasted all day yesterday- including a run with cellular on - and still had like 20% left when I went to bed last night. Seems pretty amazing and hopefully it does the same today. Not sure if its just 26.1 or maybe upgrading it reset something that was eating tons of battery. Good news and happy days!
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