SW Ver 16.07 Excessive Battery Drain

I don't understand how they can make a SW update and did not see this when they were testing the device/software on their own devices.

This was one of the reasons i moved from Fitbit to Garmin due to the same issues. Sofware updates kept making the product not usable and worthless to even have. i charged my Vivoactive 5 yesterday to 100% around 12PM afternoon. Today at 0600AM its at 5% battery.

I followed all forums posted to check, calibrate and see if other programs, apps, or settings are draining my device.

the majority of all battery sucking settings i have off or set at low. therefor i can't believe that that is draining my battery.

And i really use my vivoactive, just for active activities(walking and going to the gym) and see my heart rate.when needed. other than that, no custom faces, no apps installed(barely) and having only the defaults on my watch. 

I also have a similar issue. 2 days ago the watch had an auto-installed SW update. Since then, battery life's gone down from 8 days to less than a day. Not sure how to check SW version.

Same here, It's crazy not to realise this during testing and release an update with such a catastrophic drain. 

Yes i have the same issue

Yes, same issue with me

Rennders the thing almost unusable

I also have the same issue. Please fix it ASAP

I tried once again a solution posted for devices that battery got drained faster.

Please start walking/cycling or some activity that has GPS enabled, and in that settings of the specific exercise disable GPS completely and see if the battery drainage improves to a staggering halt.

i Don't like giving up but i also do like trying once again when i get the time. Charge it completely for 100% and after that try disabling GPS.

That seems to work for me, thank you.

same for Venu 3. The battery life is shortened %30