Galaxy Watch 7 – Wi-Fi keeps turning on by itself after Smart Switch backup (huge battery drain, 3 resets already)

[NEVARLeVrai]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been struggling with a weird issue on my Galaxy Watch 7 (One UI 6 / Wear OS) and I wonder if anyone else has experienced this.

• After a few hours, usually after Smart Switch performs a backup, the Wi-Fi on the watch turns on by itself.

• I always keep Wi-Fi disabled manually, but it somehow re-enables randomly.

• Every time this happens, the battery drains very fast.

• I already tried 3 full resets of the watch.

• The issue went away temporarily when I cleared all data from Smart Switch on my phone and re-setup everything from scratch, but after some time, it came back again.

So far what I tested:

• Resetting the watch (temporary fix, but problem comes back).

• Clearing Smart Switch app data (temporary fix, then issue returns after Smart Switch runs again).

• Disabling Smart Switch backups → currently testing if that prevents the Wi-Fi from activating.

It really looks like Smart Switch is restoring/re-applying old Wi-Fi settings in the background, which forces the watch to turn Wi-Fi back on even if I turned it off manually.

This is very frustrating because it kills the battery

[Tourbillon De La Vie]

Smart switch needs wifi to backup data so I would think it enables it

[NEVARLeVrai]

but, like it does its draining the battery and never complete the backup and doesnt stop the wifi ! it wasnt doing that on the older OS version

[Tourbillon De La Vie]

Try maybe doing/initiate a manual smart switch backup. That's what I did when I had similar issue with GW 6

[NEVARLeVrai]

for now i have disabled the app isnt useful for me, i hope the bugs will be resolved... forn ow it satys off with smart switch uninstall from my phone