Samsung S8 battery life drop since I got Ionic

[Kierownik]

Hi there,

So I've been testing it for about a week now and since I swapped my Charge HR with new Ionic the battery life on my Galaxy S8 dropped dramatically. 

Before getting Ionic my phone would still have around 50% battery at the end of the day. Now it's only about 15%. That is a massive difference.

I've got my "all day sync", "live data" and "always connected disabled". The onlny thing I have enabled are notifications. 

My biggest battery drainers are "Android OS" and "Android System". I believe this must have something to do with bluetooth. 

The thing is, I've had a Samsung Gear S3 before Ionic and had notifications enabled too and my battery life was twice as good as it is now. 

Does anyone else experience similar issues?

Thanks.

[RobertoME]

Hello there @Kierownik, nice to see you are visiting the Fitbit Community! In this case you are correct about the Bluetooth might be the reason due to the notifications are On.

By disabling all day sync and always connected, is your tracker not connecting with your phone constantly, but if there are notifications still active, it will reduce your phone's battery. Are you using any other notifications like Apps notification, Push notifications or Music control? As this may explain the constant activity of Bluetooth.

The app is optimized to work with minimum usage of your phone battery and should not drain the charge so drastically, but have you tried to force quit the app to see if there is any change. Perhaps keeping the app in the background along with other applications is reducing the battery of your phone.

See you around and stick around for more help.