Apple Watch series 5 battery life

iFixIt took the S5 40mm apart and found a different battety with a 10% greater capacity

Hopefully all the drain problems will be software and fixed soon

https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/26/40mm-apple-watch-series-5-new-battery-design/

I am oddly starting to see much better battery life. I have the 44mm and my wife has the 40mm. She has seen much better battery life in general. Hers was at 56% after nearly 20 hours. Mine came off the charger at 3:45am today. It's now 10:30am and at 79% (21% lost in 6 hours 45 min) and I did a quick 2 mile run earlier.

Current configuration is: AOD on, Noise off, Modular watch face without any complications that need updates (activity is main complication), app refresh is only on for apps that I actually need it to be on for, haptic crown is off but haptic feedback is on.

My wife's watch has the same configuration but hers has only been off the charger for 2 hours. Will update with her status in a little while. I am not concerned with the noise monitor as I am never in high noise situations. It seems like something I would only turn on in the event its needed.

I am planning on doing a much longer swim later today so I'll be interested to see how the watch holds up. Also planning a long run tomorrow (2+ hours). Will update later.

I did do the phone update this morning on both phones.

I managed to get hold of the Beta profile and installed it on my series 5. I thought it had fixed the issue when I was goin 24 hours between charges but then just had two nights where I ran out of battery at 3 and 4am even though I had 30-40% going to bed at 10pm. I don't think it's as dramatic as returning the watch because it is awesome, I think it's a matter of waiting and seeing what the final release does to battery life. As with any beta it might not yet be super tight. I know the Dismiss button isn't working at the bottom of text messages with Beta 5 but it was with Beta 4 for instance.

Apple just released iOS 13.1.1 to fix battery drain issues.

wonder if the interface between the iPhone and watch is the problem

if not will wait for Watch OS 6.1 for a fix

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

Hi pwnell,

I wonder if the issue is with the phone it’s paired to? Have you tried a hard reset of the phone or even better a different phone?

I did this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250775689

And for the past 3 days I am getting 2.5% drain per hour, meaning I go to bed with 66% battery life.

I had a full charge at 6AM. The phone was dead as a doornail by 9PM. I didn't do anything but wear it. No workouts. No streaming. My Series 2 would have still had 30-40% at this point. I called Support and they put a profile on my watch to track activity tomorrow.

So here is my experience with a new Series 5 watch. The day before yesterday I did a complete Erase and set it up as a new watch, paired with my iPhone 11 Pro due to the ongoing battery issues, hoping that would solve it. It did not. So I did a test today.

Always On: ON, Cellular: Off

08:37: Fully charged - 100%

09:35 : 92% [8%/hr]

Always On: OFF, Cellular Off

09:42: 91%

10:54: 75% [13.3%/hr] yeah w#f?

Always On: OFF, Cellular Off, Background Refresh for all apps: OFF

10:56: 74%

12:03: 59% [13.4%/hr]

*Same as above but hard reboot on watch*

12:08: 56%

12:40: 49% [13.12%/hr]

*Same as above but changed face from California to Numerals Duo with outline font*

12:42: 47%

13:13: 40% [13.5%/hr]

Always On: OFF, Cellular Off, Background Refresh for all apps: OFF, Airplane Mode: ON, California face

13:47: 32%

14:50: 23% [8.6%/hr]

Always On: OFF, Cellular Off, Background Refresh for all apps: OFF, Airplane Mode: ON, California face, EVERYTHING ELSE TURNED OFF (as in notifications, heart rate sensor, activity monitoring, etc)

14:53: 21%

15:51: 10% [11.4%/hr, Power Reserve mode prompt]

I did nothing other than have the watch on my arm. I looked at the display only when taking a measurement so in total not more than 20 times for the 7 hours and 20 minutes it lasted today to get to 10%.

Clearly a bug somewhere. I heard 13.1.1 is out - will see if that works, otherwise I am returning this until they fix it.

It’s been horrible compared to my series 4. I turned my brightness all the way down hoping that helps or I guess I have to turn off always on display. I can’t get a full day on this watch. I’m almost dead after only 14 hours. I’m at 8%

Then again maybe not. I did ANOTHER erase and reset - repaired and set it up as a new watch. The TrustedPeersHelper process no longer runs 100% (a hard reboot did not fix it). I verified - no process was taking significant CPU time. But it is still draining at a rate of 7% per hour, which leaves me with 14 hours doing NOTHING other than wearing it. I will probably be returning this watch - have spent more than 30 hours diagnosing, talking to Apple Support, profiling, resetting, reinstalling, etc. for something I paid CAD1100 for.

I've updated to 13.1.1 and no improvement observed. It's charging now, I unpaired and set up a new watch...will see.

Yes - didn't even last a day. Went to store yesterday, he said it's firmware issues and had to restart/re-paired my watch.

Keeping an eye on the battery today but not looking good!