Galaxy Watch 7 April Update battery drain

[SED_SLD]

Since the April 2025 update to my Galaxy Watch 7, I'm getting less than 1 day of battery life. Anyone else experiencing the same?

[ajschenk]

I'm losing approximately 15% per hour. I have tried clearing the cache and ultimately did a factory reset on the watch. Neither fixed the problem. This is not the first time Samsung has trashed the battery performance based on their software updates. Who knows how long it will be until they push out a fix for it. I'm about to go back to wearing my Fitbit that gave a solid 4 days of battery life.

[Members_wWXM92B]

Yup -  my watch 7  only lasts 12 hours before the low battery warning  appears,  come on Samsung, get it sorted.

[Members_Y7u20Qr]

Same problem here. I took the watch out of the charger 10 minutes ago and it's already at 90% in power save mode. Are samsung planning on fixing this? 

[TechnoSteve]

I'm still waiting for the update, why do LTE watches always take the longest to update, even when I had my watch 6 classic LTE, it took longer. Anyway glad ain't got it yet, with the problems y'all are having

[ajschenk]

I have the LTE version as well. The update is the March security patch. Probably there if you manually check for the update. 

Aside from that, my watch seems to have fixed itself today. Watch has been off the charger for about 6 hours and I've only used 7% of the battery. There have been no software updates installed. The only change that I made was deleting a bunch of apps, all of which were stock with the device. Now I'm wondering if one of those apps updated and caused the issue. Although, there were no apps hogging the battery when I checked the stats the last few days. 

[TechnoSteve]

Is your software version same as this, I was told there is a new version

[TechnoSteve]

Galaxy watch ultra

[TechnoSteve]

I have checked manually a few times

[ajschenk]

No, I have a newer version. See my screenshot a few posts up.