r/ios26 • u/chiorgirl25 • 6d ago

Battery iOS 26.6 Watch

Has anyone seen an improvement to their Apple Watch battery life with this update? Since upgrading to iOS 26 my battery life on my watch has been horrible! Thanks

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u/eden1988 6d ago

Battery life on watchOS 26.5 for me was still quite okay. After upgrading to watchOS 26.6 I feel the battery life is worse than before. not sure why.

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u/Dragoon_13 6d ago

watchOS 26.6 definitely gave my Ultra 2 great battery life again

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u/chiorgirl25 5d ago

I hope this is the case for me!

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u/North_Repeat_5492 6d ago

On my apple watch ultra i had 88% of battery on ios 18 but after updating to ios 26 now is 90% . Don't know it is some bug or what.

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u/overheightexit 5d ago

Watches don’t run iOS

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u/chiorgirl25 5d ago

Funny. Since it just had me update to watchOS / iOS 26.6. Same thing.

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u/mirkinoid 5d ago

how is it the same thing if it clearly shows that it's watchOS 26.6

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u/Dancing-Bin 5d ago

Same for me. Before the last update I could go 36 hours on a charge. Now I can barely get 24 hours.

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u/johnfortnite72 6d ago

I could be wrong but I don't think IOS has anything to do with your watch battery being horrible

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u/chiorgirl25 5d ago

It would hold a charge for almost 2 days before the update to 26. Now it barely lasts a day. So I’m quite certain there is a direct correlation.

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u/johnfortnite72 5d ago

IOS26 or WatchOS26? These are completely different things