Apple watch series 4 battery drain about 15% per hour without any active app

No beta software here. It started for me a month ago after the series 4 spent a day stuck in a reboot cycle. No software updating or adding of any apps anytime close to the issue starting.

For a known issue, no one at apple seemed to know anything about it during my 2 trips to an apple store and three times into the service center. Now mine has gone back into a reboot cycle and has been stuck like that for 4 days. Only now after some analytics profile recorded it for 24 hours (before the reboot cycle started again) are they finally replacing it.

I certainly hope they get it fixed soon since there seems to be a growing number of users affected.

Edit: My comment is in response to Lawrence Finch.

Lots of us had the reported battery drain issue on released software long before the beta was available. If Apple doesn’t know about it, it’s willful ignorance IMNSHO.

After reviewing my analytics report, their engineers said mine was a known issue. So there must be more than ONLY one known issue. There are a number of threads popping up with some threads having the same or similar problem some going back before the current beta. And certainly not everyone in every thread is running beta.

I'm not trying to argue, your comment seemed to suggest that this whole issue is beta related. Perhaps I misunderstood.

Have an Apple Watch Series 4 for almost 2 months now. It is doing the same thing. Battery only lasting about 6 hours after an all night charge. Yesterday it did something else weird. , battery went red and wanted to be charged, about 15 minuets later it was green again without charging, like hey I am back LOL. Lasted about an hour was red again. Went to Apple store and they said to call Apple support since it is still under Apple Care. Looks like from comments above that it won't help to send it in. I purchased mine from T-Mobile store, maybe they replace it. But I have my doubts! If I have to, I will somehow get my money back since I haven't even made the first payment yet.

Apparently people refer to the graphic of the charging cable as 'snake' and the green snake/green snake of death problem, is where when connected to the charger, the lighting bolt icon turns from red to green, but the battery will not gain any charge.

Apple change a lot. Before they would do anything to make customers happy, now.. they don’t care. I’m very disappointed with their products and their customer services. I had watch 1 and the battery last more than one day. Now I end my day without battery. Not happy

Started at 858a, 100%. As of 803p, 75% with my regular day’s use, no setting/configuration changes to the watch. Just the install of watchOS 6. That’s about 25% / 12 hours or theoretically 2 days worth of power. Everything is good in the world again!

The battery doesn’t last one day... I did what the last person said, turn off the background, and nothing. And I really don’t use cause I’m always with my phone. So Apple is not going to see my money any time soon. They don’t have any respect for their customers whatsoever...

I have a similar problem, but my Apple Watch (aluminum 4gen) only drains excessively when I’m not active or use it very much. When I’m active (walk around all day) and have a busy day in general, I end the day with over 50%. But when I’m at the office the whole day, it dies on me around 5-7PM. I’ve tried reinstalling everything, hard reboot, reinstall as new device, reinstalling as new device without any 3th party apps, I even had tried putting it in cinema mode, because I thought that maybe I turn on the screen all the time while using the computer. The only constant that I’ve found is that when I’m active it works great, when I’m not it drains like there is no tomorrow :/

I have the watch series 4 now since 3 months and the battery life is getting worse. I followed most of the advises in internet how to extend the battery life but by doing this I could have bought at least a 30$ chronometer to read the time. I will make some more overnight tests but I guess nothing will improve. Draining over night within 6 hours 25% of battery capacity without using it it might be ridiculous. As it seems, to buy this watch was a big mistake.

To make it clear, the battery was in the beginning "acceptable" but now suddenly its getting worse. And I did nothing to bother the battery, I even removed apps as much as possible, not doing anything extraordinary.

That’s same problem as I have and I have tried the same, even in flight mode is slightly draining. Maybe most Problem could be the permanent Bluetooth connection? I have seen that the watch is all the time searching for devices?

Same as me and seemingly many others. Your suggestions are good but in generally not acceptable, doing not reflect the high expectations for apple product users.

I guess when a product consist on "help yourself"to reach the announced minimum requirements, and not even the minimum will be reached, then is something wrong. Why should I accept a product, consisting on switching off every app, which is not needed at the moment? Remember, when the battery usage of former products came up and still you can read about, it was recommended to keep apps running in the background, they are not using (much?) energy and it cost more energy when you need to open them again. Now we are in a different epoch of apple products where we have to learn the grass isn't green but red? Sorry to say that again, in this case I could have bought a 29$ watch to see the time whenever I want and for fitness a simple fitness tracker where I do not require a higher standard.

Congratulations, you and many others have figured out some timely working solutions. Wouldn't it be better we would have bought a product, which is fulfilling at least 90% of the advertised numbers and would be working as per technical specifications? We are on the way to figure out some homemade solutions to get a high priced product simply a bit satisfactory working?

Hi, me again. Just wondering about the behaviour of my watch. After draining 25% within 6 hours without any activity, today the watch lost over night with same settings only 3%. More, after medium use today I have now considered after 10 hours usage the watch is still on 75%???

I don't know what is going on, I do not believe in aliens.

Exactly! I unpaired and set up as new watch, turned everything possible off, and usage and standby times were either the same or very close. I finally sold the watch (at a loss) in disgust. I love all my Apple devices, but I hated the expensive brick that is the Apple watch.