Severe battery drain Apple Watch series 5

Understood.... same reasons I feel the same. But I have no 4 to turn back to. So until addressed by Apple you can atleast disable and use.

otherwise supply feedback or visit a Genius Bar to have them review

AppleWatch Series 5 Nike+ GPS. Watch OS6.0.1. Only had my watch for one week and the battery drain is horrible (compared to Series, 1,2,3,4). I opened a case with Apple Support the same day as the watch was received. Turning off the "always on" feature seemed to help. However, the screen remained somewhat dimly lit. I have brightness set to the maximum. I have done the suggested (here on this thread) reset. No change in the drain. At 5pm yesterday, the watch was fully charged. I did normal activities and took it off at 10pm. By 6am, the watch had drained to 64%! Within the past 2 days, the watch is now extremely slow to charge. From 64% to 95% takes 1 hour 20 minutes. Crazy.

I was back with a supervisor in AppleSupport this morning who has made an appointment for me to return/exchange the watch on Tuesday at an Apple Store 55 miles away. Worst release of an Apple product EVER (Apple user since 1984).

Same issue here. I had S4 before and after16 hours of use (notifications, workout up to 2 hours a day, siri, several timers per day) I easily got 30-40% in the evening.

Now yesterday my watch was dead drained after 12 hours of use. Apple say 18 hours of battery life, but 12 are by far from 18...

Experiencing the same issues. Series 5 w/ Cellular. I have unpaired and reset the watch, did a whole day without cellular and Always On Display and only got 10 hours. No workouts were done and just kept it on to see how it lasted. I just took it off the charger and less than 10 minutes I’m at 98%. I had the Series 3 w/o cellular prior and was able to get 2 days out of that. I don’t think it makes any difference as my phone is always with me during these tests.

I’ve also noticed that depending on what happens AOD screen when enabled holds the notification and keeps the screen on full with a hazed background and the time in the corner. As if it’s not able to release the notifications when AOD is disabled like it was with the Apple Watch 4.

theres a few odd things and depending on what’s going on with each setup it’s unique.

i didn’t do a hard reset but did re-enable it over the weekend and it did last fairly well. I just think there are tweaks that need to occur and hoping we will see a watchOS update I. The near future to assist without the need to continually reset or disable the feature we bought it for

I have a series 5 that i got on Friday from apple.com. Today, Monday morning is the first time i put the watch on my wrist. Charged it the whole weekend and it is 1PM Monday afternoon and the Watch is completely dead, 0 battery life left. I had 2 meetings this morning so i didnt even use the watch. Extremely ****** off about this. My series 4 was great from day 1.

I am having exactly the same problem with my Gen 2 Watch....I was getting almost 2 days out of a full charge, but this week it has started losing charge overnight while I sleep...so 8 hours or so.

It has to be something to do with the new operating system as nothing else has changed EXCEPT the battery SUDDENLY going from great to near unusable.

HELP!

I’m turning AOD off today I’ve tried every other tip I’ve seen, compass, noise, walkie-talkie, same battery drain. This is my second S5, returned the first, both the same.

Hi Randy

Same issue here so when you say reset are you talking about restoring it to factory settings or doing what some call a hard restart? Holding down both buttons until the apple symbol shows?

Thank you

Regards

Peter

I appreciate the advice but i cant turn off the sole selling feature of my series 5 for the sake of conserving battery life. For that, I will just return the 5 and wear my series 4 which i love. What annoys me the most is a bought a really fancy series 5 and was pretty excited to wear this thing. It certainly looks amazing.

Reset your With by pressing in the crown and side button until you see the Apple logo, then release both.

I'm also getting severe battery drain with the Apple Watch Series 5 (stainless steel edition). I'm noticing that 8AM to 7PM, I'm at about 22%.... Are we the only ones???

I think mine fixed after doing the reset mentioned above.

I too am experiencing severe battery drain. From full charge overnight, wearing the watch at 7am, the battery has drained to 40% at 10am. 3 hours and 60% of the battery is drained.