Severe battery drain Apple Watch series 5

Update: I did a hard reset of the watch 4 times yesterday - fully charged it overnight, started wearing it around 8 am this morning and it is now 3 pm @ 75% charge. Doing the hard resets seems to of fixed it!

I had the same experience, and I fixed it - I hope this info helps someone out there.

In my case, the AOD was having issues 'reading' my wrist due to tattoos and birthmarks. So the display would go off and on, dim and bright, all day long. I solved the issue by putting a clear sticker on the back of the watch, and now it reads my wrist and heart rate perfectly. No more AOD issues either, and battery life is still 50% by the end of the day.

Really hope this helps someone out there.

I had this issue but had to shut off the always on display.

i could go a entire day select days. But if an exercise routine was activated the battery would just drain. As it doesn’t seem like AOD is either ready or else the face I have is causing faster drain

the problem went away after I stopped the always on option

You can get your series 4 performance back if you use the gears/setting on the watch and go into display and turn off the always on... I typically have to do this on busy days .. slow days like the weekends I’ll re-activate always on... but there is a quirk/bug with AOD and what it’s doing for power even though they claimed more. That’s where I’m hoping a software update resolved instead of trying to reset 6 times over

I find that after most updates I experience a battery drain and takes a few resets over the course of a day or 3 to get it settled.

I updated on Saturday and yesterday my battery drain was back to normal.

So give it a few resets over a day or 2 and it should fix itself.

I’ve bever done a hard reset and had it a full day one weekend that I also had the 40% left. The other days that has been drained as if something is running in the background.. I know it’s not the standard functionality because one I stopped always on the battery life rebounded back to standard series 4 life expectancies (and the sound check is still enabled and using my watch normally)

ive also noticed that with always on the watch turn is very sensitive where the screen highlights more brightening.

sifh always on off, the turn has to be much more explicit.

and Im using a pretty dark screen face (Mickey mouse) unlike some of the others which have the dull screen illumination when on

Anyone else with this finding before I try? Turning off always on has drastically improved daytime battery alone. Nervous about a reset if it’s only a temporary fix as I hate resetting everything back up

i had the same problem. The only thing you need to do is update the watch to 6.0.1. Also the dimly lit screen is because of the light sensor. If you are in a dimly lot room the watch won’t go full brightness but if you are in a room with a lot of light it will go full brightness and be brilliant.

I was in with Apple support. They took analytics files and didn’t see an issue. I was advised to unpair and repair to see if that helps. We’ll see

I think they released Watch OS 6.0.1 today while we were talking. Hopefully this fixes the battery issue.

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I’m having the same problem. I had the series 2, 3 and 4 before the 5. I have never had a battery issue before the 5. I put the watch on every day around 7 am and before I got the 5 I would have at least 30% battery left when I went to sleep around 11:30 pm, even after using the Workout App, music, and various complications throughout the day The 5 is down to 10% by 9 pm (I’ve been getting a low battery alert every day around that time). I don’t use this watch any different than previous watches. There is definitely a problem. I hope it is a software issue that Apple is already aware of. It would be nice if they announced that a fix is coming soon.