Is anyone else having battery issues since v27?

I went from a full charge lasting 5-7 days last week to a full charge lasting less than 2 days. I shouldn’t have to charge every day.

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5508 553580 over 1 year ago +5

Yes my battery life has also been affected with this update(27.00). Is this another trick to lead us to upgrade to a newer device?
9160077 over 1 year ago +4

Same here. Since the update came through last weekend I lose 20% overnight while sleeping and am down 75% in 48h with only one activity that didn’t even require GPS. Used to last me a week full of activities…
Forssman over 1 year ago +4

Need to get back on v26 for the full battery capacity. Where can I find the v26 and instructions, please?

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0 muppetman over 1 year ago

No, I'm not.

I've been on 26.10 and then I tried the last few betas (mostly because I bought an HRM-PRO and wanted the fixes fort raining load being properly calculated when using the Store & Forward) and am now on 27.00

My battery life is nowhere near what it was when I bought the watch, but that was 3 years ago now. But it hasn't changed much in the last year for me.

0 5508 553580 over 1 year ago

Yes my battery life has also been affected with this update(27.00). Is this another trick to lead us to upgrade to a newer device?

0 ryanspa over 1 year ago

Yes. I charged 4 days ago and today at 48%. I was working on computer today so I synced and charged to 100% 2 hours ago. Since then it’s dropped 3% (unusual).
I’m going to monitor. I’ve just removed device, cleared Bluetooth on phone, logged out of app and back in then paired again.

0 KenMar over 1 year ago

Not sure if it was using v26.xx or v27, but my 6XPS went from 75% to 1% in one day, using nothing different. Charged to 85% and it's been fine.

ever since on v27.0.

0 7494140 over 1 year ago

Yes, battery is draining around twice the rate it was on the last update, although not as rapidly as yours appears to be

0 Baz 8755 over 1 year ago

Thanks for the heads up. I have now disabled auto update on my watch.

0 Baz 8755 over 1 year ago

Thanks for the heads up. I have now disabled auto update on my watch.

0 plexicrunch over 1 year ago

UPDATE: my battery life currently seems to be normal since posting this a couple of days ago. Obviously there's been no SW update since then, so no "fix" targeting my issue. So perhaps my observation isn't specific to v27. It's worth noting that I've sporadically observed this issue before, though never so quickly after a SW update so perhaps my attribution to v27 was premature and incorrect. I'll monitor the situation and try to update this thread if I observe anything significant.

0 Pavel366 over 1 year ago

Hi, I have the same issue. Ver 27.00 updated. Battery drains within a day from full to 60%. Fenix 6 4 Year old, no battery issue before. If battery drops under 50% watch swich off, usually whey using garmin pay. I tried soft, hard restart, restore factory settings. not helping at all. Watch is fine, should last longer than 4Y. Advice pls. thanks P.

0 darnich over 1 year ago in reply to Pavel366

Try to disable auto backup in the settings. Use the manual option once in a while