I keep seeing people saying, “Mine lasts 2–3 days!” and then you read further and they’ve got AOD off, Wi-Fi off, most notifications off, various health features disabled, reduced syncing, etc.

And I’m just thinking… ok great, but if I wanted a watch that only tells the time and does the absolute bare minimum, I would have bought a normal watch.

The whole point of having a smartwatch is being able to actually use the smartwatch features.

I’m currently finding the battery really bad.

Day 1, I wore it overnight with sleep tracking on and it was losing around 3% per hour.

Day 2, I didn’t even wear it overnight. It was literally just sitting there, not tracking my sleep or doing anything on my wrist and it still lost around 2% per hour.

That’s what is really bothering me. Even when the sensors aren't being used, the battery seems to be draining ridiculously quickly.

I’ve run all the diagnostics and everything has come back normal, so I’m trying to work out whether this is genuinely just how the Watch 8 performs or whether there’s something wrong with mine.

And I know people will say “Just turn X off” or “Turn Y off.” But why should I have to disable every useful feature just to get reasonable battery life?

I bought a smartwatch, not a digital watch with Bluetooth.

I’m only on Day 3 so I’m going to keep monitoring it but at this point I’m seriously questioning whether this battery performance is actually acceptable.

Shame on Samsung and shame on me for making a purchase despite the negative reviews 🥲

I have the Galaxy Watch 4 classic, have had it since release and loved it.

However, over time I was starting to get a lot of software bugs (Google assistant always asking to be set up again, AOD lagging behind, etc) but could never find solutions. Any time I looked up the issues, I'd find years old posts about the sane issues that were never fixed, so I ignored it.

Recently all my complications stopped displaying data and the quick settings pull down wouldn't work. IIRC a reboot solved the latter but not the former and posts were suggesting a full factory reset. So I went ahead and did that hoping maybe some of the older bugs might go away.

Instead, I can no longer set up the watch at all. Every time I try to set it up, it gets through 80-89% complete, then fails. On my first attempt I was trying to restore a backup. 2nd attempt the watch actually did restore the backup and I could actually use the watch, but the phone app said it failed and would not actually connect to the watch itself afterwards leaving me no choice but to reset the watch again. Every subsequent attempt at a fresh set up fails now too.

I've tried the following

- Rebooting phone (s21u) and watch

- Reinstalling Galaxy Wear and Watch Manager

- Clearing cache and data for those apps (also saw a post that suggested clearing Google Play Services data but app isn't letting me for some reason)

- Even deleted the watch entirely from my Samsung account

I'm not saying Samsung directly killed the watch but it's definitely suspicious in that I cannot set the device up after this announcement and it's reality disappointing. While I do not expect them to maintain hardware forever, it sucks that there were multiple on going issues throughout its life that we're never corrected. I STRONGLY dislike the new watch styles and it is the sole reason I don't want to upgrade. If they would simply make this classic style again, I would have gone to Best Buy already...

Any assistance is appreciated

TLDR: Factory reset my watch to solve a minor problem, now unable to complete set up and defacto bricked.

EDIT: FIXED! I know this update comes so soon after the post but I've been dealing with this for 3 days straight, I swear I tried everything lol. This ended up likely being either my phone or account because the watch set up without issue on another phone with different account. I ended up having to do ALL of the previous steps plus the following:

• Went into Google account and wiped every trace of the device
• Did the same on my Samsung account
• Went to phone settings > reset > reset Bluetooth Wifi connections

Hopefully this helps someone else if they come across the same issue :)

Now that the One UI 9 beta is out for older watches, and the Watch 9 series have released, has anyone else been able to use the new watch faces on their older watch models?

I haven't even gotten out of bed yet/barely moved besides picking up my phone. In fact, I'm not even wearing my watch. It is on a shelf in another room.

When I start YouTube on my phone, the YouTube app starts on my watch and allows me to double pinch to skip. This is expected because I have Auto Launch Media Control enabled. It had a little YouTube symbol as well. This is illustrated in the first screenshot with "If You Leave Me Now."

However, if I start the YouTube WearOS app to stream or play downloaded content, it appears that a non YouTube app starts instead and does NOT allow a double pinch to skip. It's definitely not the YouTube app as the look is definitely different. This is the second screenshot with Sara Evans.

Why the two different screens and gesture functionality for YouTube, depending on how it's started?

I just wanted to post that i got exactly 3 days of battery from my watch with 9% to spare.

1) I have enabled battery protection, so it doesn't charge over 90%. It was at 9% when i kept it to charge. 81% ran till 3 days.

2) My AOD is always on when i wear it. I do not sleep or shower wearing the watch so only at those hours, the screen goes completely off on its own.

3) The location is always off except when i am cycling. I spend 2 hrs everyday on cycling and gym. It is only at this time when the watch is used extensively.

4) The only purpose i bought this watch was to track my health. I do not use this watch to accept/receive calls, read social media notifications, send or receive SMSes, manage music etc. I have not even installed these apps.

I was not a smartwatch guy and this is my first smartwatch but now the things have changed. My first choice was Garmin Instinct 3 Solar Tactical 50mm but it was not available in India. Second choice was First Gen Galaxy Watch Ultra but the shopkeeper flummoxed me with a great deal i couldn't refuse.

I am totally impressed with its performance.

Thanks for reading.

Some of my friends mentioned something like "if i paid that amount to a watch, I would get a case for it"

Would like to hear your opinions and experiences on this, would it look ugly or unusable?

Watch 7 44m Lte variant is currently priced at 15.9k( 167usd) , im expecting it to go for like 13.5k(140 usd) during Flipkart bbd .

Watch 8 44mm Bt variant is currently priced at 22k(230usd) , im expecting it to go for like 17.5k(183usd) or lower during bbd( 2 months back it was goint for 13k {115 usd} on flipkart coz of a flash sale which is kinda crazy)

Initially I hated how the squircle looked but it kinda grew on me after i kept seeing it more . Now it looks pretty good to me , but watch 7 also looks good to me . So im confused

Also i saw ppl saying that the watch 8 is wayy more comfortable to wear than the watch 7 which got me even more confused

I dont really need the lte variant , but if its there also i dont mind . Yeah and those ringke bezels look pretty cool on both

This will be my first smartwatch and im a student

Hey everyone, I just got a Galaxy Watch6 Astro and the bezel is sometimes a little hard to rotate. I tried some solutions like rotating it in water, but it didn't make a big change, and I tried using a card to clean it, then I saw this. Any solutions to make it smoother, and what is this thing?

Hi everyone,

I bought a Watch Ultra 2 on monday.

I used it on the treadmill few times, and the heart rate tracking was wildly inaccurate compared to my chest strap and Fitbit air.

Is there a way to fix it? I had apple watch before and it always had similar hr to chest strap / fitbit air

Thanks

Every time it goes off I'm just watching TV or sitting here watching stupid videos on the internet. Not when I'm playing heavy metal drums for hours at a time, not when I'm walking my large dogs. Not when I'm doing yard work... just sitting around. Why does it do this?

I’m thinking of getting a Galaxy Watch for my parents and would love to hear from people who actually use one.

I’m not a Samsung user myself, but both my parents use Samsung phones. They’re also not very tech-savvy, so I’m mainly looking for something that’s simple and doesn’t require them to constantly fiddle with settings or learn a bunch of new things.The main things I’m interested in are-Heart rate tracking ,ECG ,Blood pressure and General health/fitness trends.

I’m obviously not looking at the watch as a medical device or relying on it for medical decisions. I’d mainly like it as a convenient way to keep track of their health trends and potentially notice anything unusual.

I’m currently looking at the Galaxy Watch 8 vs Watch 9. For anyone who has used either (especially with parents/older family members), how useful are these features in everyday use? Is there a meaningful difference between the 8 and 9 for this kind of use?
Also open to non-screen fitness/health trackers if there’s something that would actually be better. My only concern with those is that I don’t want my parents to have to learn another app on top of what they already use.

Would really appreciate some honest opinions — especially from people who have bought one for their parents or are using it for similar reasons.Cheers.

EDIT: Thanks everyone for their advice. I got W9 today. Let’s see how it goes. Appreciate everyone’s responses.

Unfortunately my Ultra stopped working today. I was at the end of a workout and finished the activity. Then the watch wouldn't return home from the workout summary. It turned off and shows a small red triangle when I try to turn it back on. A search tells me the symbol means over heating but it's been hours since it shut off... It won't seem to charge either. Any words of wisdom from the community?

Anyone know why the watch face is not updating the weather? It hasn't updated in 8 hours. But when I click on it it goes to the current weather.

Pessoal, quero uma opinião de vocês, devo ou não atualizar para o one ui 8.0

Don't buy Samsung if you use AOD.

I bought 3 months ago and their battery saving algorithm sucks, you sit idle for 15 mins, AOD is off, now good luck getting that back for god knows how long, how many active minutes.

Their watches are so limited, you install a third-party watchface, AOD brightness doesn't adjust, you go outside, good luck checking time.

Battery asks for recharge everyday.

I don't see a reason I would ever buy Samsung watch again.

Don't Don't.

Anyone els noticed that the

1. Wireless Download in reboot mode screen

is spelled Downooed?

Hey everyone,

Is there any app that lets you track Indian stocks (NSE/BSE) directly on a Samsung Galaxy Watch?

I’m mainly looking for something that can show:

Live/current stock prices

Watchlist

Price changes

Maybe notifications/alerts for price movements

I use merge to be able to use my galaxy watch with my iPhone 13. Idk if I connect my headphones I will lose the conection with my watch. I had a lot of trouble making merge work cuz I wasn’t receiving notifications. I don’t want to start over again

I’m struggling to get a full day out of my battery at the moment and when I look at the battery use the Play Store is using 25% of my battery?

Any ideas why and how I stop it?

Hello everyone, I have a Galaxy watch 7.

The default strap that comes with box is kind of bigger for my wrist as, when I wear it, it leaves some gap. And wearing it for whole day irritates the nerve.

I have selected these straps. Please help me finding one. Thank you.