Samsung Galaxy Watch owners are waking up to dead wrists: across forums, users of the Watch 6, 7, 8, and Ultra are reporting sudden, dramatic drops in battery life, and the culprit looks suspiciously like Google Play Services.

One Reddit user posted a screenshot showing Google Play Services sitting at the top of their app battery usage list, eating through 16.5% of all power consumed by apps on the watch.

Some users traced the drain directly to a recent security update. Others noticed it seemingly out of nowhere, with no clear trigger they could identify. Besides, there’s a third group, maybe a quarter of the conversation, saying their battery life hasn’t budged at all.

The timing has sparked speculation that Samsung’s blood pressure feature update, which rolled out recently, may have changed something under the hood.

One working theory floating around is that a server-side change pushed by Google, not Samsung, triggered Google Play Services into a more aggressive state on Wear OS devices.

The immediate advice for anyone hitting this wall: open the Watch settings, find Google Play Services under app info, clear the cache, and force a restart, as suggested by Android Authority.

The immediate advice for anyone hitting this wall: open the Watch settings, find Google Play Services under app info, clear the cache, and force a restart.

Samsung should, at least, acknowledge the Galaxy Watch battery drop problem. Letting Google Play Services eat through that battery life quietly, with no comment and no fix timeline, is exactly the wrong move.

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