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Last updated: August 21st, 2024 at 11:16 UTC+02:00
The Galaxy Ring is one of the most exciting devices of the year for Samsung Health users looking for a carefree and screen-free fitness and health-tracking experience. It’s subtle, does the job, and lasts even longer than a Galaxy Watch on a full battery charge. Or does it?
Well, it should, and it used to. Samsung advertises the Galaxy Ring for up to seven days of battery life on a full battery. It’s a close approximation, as battery life will vary depending on the ring size. Bigger Galaxy Rings have bigger batteries and more battery life, but the difference isn’t that great.
As mentioned in our Galaxy Ring review, we got around six days of use from our Samsung smart ring on a full charge. That’s good performance for a carefree user experience, as far as we’re concerned. But here’s the problem. We’re not getting close to that figure anymore.
Galaxy Ring has a battery drain issue
The Galaxy Ring we use for reference has been losing battery charge much quicker than before. Lately, we haven’t been able to get more than three days of usage from a full battery.
That’s about half of what we used to get on a full charge, and it’s not much more than we’d achieve on a Galaxy Watches with a bit of clever feature management.
We’re not the only Galaxy Ring users facing this issue. Here’s another example from @imparkerburton on X. He used to get eight days of usage, but now the Galaxy Ring drops to a little over 50% after roughly fifteen hours.
The story continues after the video
We’re guessing this is a temporary issue Samsung could and will fix through a firmware update. The Galaxy Ring might need some extra battery optimization, and if this is a widespread bug, Samsung will likely address it sooner rather than later. Until then, we’ll keep you posted if we find any temporary or permanent solutions.
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