The new features drain battery, no option to unselect new features either. I just requested an update to unselect new features, especially new charging display which is ridiculously and unnecessarily bright. The functions are grouped such as activities and sleeping ๐คฆ๐ฝโโ๏ธ. Hopefully enough people complain about the update so Samsung sends out a new update to allow for selection of adding these unnecessary new features.
There is no option to refuse an update, they are mandatory. The charging display? You can turn that off so that you don't have to see it at all. Go to the wear app, watch settings, battery and turn off "show charging info". The tiles work differently on the new interface. The activity widget is separate from the sleep widget, you can stack them on one tile if you wish, or you can put each widget on a separate tile.
After every major update, the watch's (and phone's) adaptive battery has to relearn your usage patterns until it stabilizes. The update itself takes a good deal of battery power, as does the reboot afterward. There is a period of time after the update installs, where there is a lot of background activity going on putting things in place and updating apps. If your battery doesn't stabilize and go back to normal within a week, then there is something going on in the background that is using resources or your battery is weakening. Run a diagnostic on the battery. You don't say which watch you have - if it's a watch 4, there is a good possibility the battery is weakening and the strain of the update weakened it further.
I'm not going to complain, I rather like the new look and the consolidation of the tile widgets.
It didn't allow me to indicate I have a watch 4 classic. I'll try your directions for the charging info. Do you know how to get notifications on both phone and watch when the phone is not in use and only on phone when phone is in use. There seems to be only an option of always on both or only on watch when phone not in use. It was an option before this update.
They changed the setting slightly. If you want the notification to come to the watch even when phone is in use, go to the wear app watch settings. Select notifications and then select always show on both. If you want them to come only to the phone when it's in use, select smart device selection. Notifications will go only to the phone when the screen is on. I find it's simpler for me to have it always show on both. Dismissing a notification on one drvice also dismisses it on the other.
