Apple Watch series 5 battery life

Yes, from day 1, the battery life has been much poorer than my Series 4. Have the GPS+Cellular in both (cellular not activated), so the comparison is apples to apples! Not what was expected for sure :(

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hi, I had the same problem from day 1 with battery life of Apple Watch Series 5. What I did. First: reset the Watch by pressing crown and side button simultaneously till the Apple Logo appears on black screen, then release. Second: Unpairing the watch from iPhone, third: install the watch as a new one. Forth: Pairing the watch with the iPhone again and follow the on-screen instructions.

After I've done this, all works fine. The battery life seams to be stable and as long as it is mentioned by Apple.

Good Luck.

did all of that and still my watch drains all the battery in one day or less despite it having nothing installed, no apps in background refreshing or nor, nor complicated faces, nothing what so ever that makes a smart watch smart.

and I barely make a 24 hour. compare that to watchOS 5 where I was able to go through 48 hours or complex complications, apps in background that I had no idea what they do, app refresh and the whole lot and still I would be left with 30 to 20% of battery life at the end of the 48 hours.

I have cellular, not using it on series 4 after about 3 pairs, unpairs, resets etc. the battery has returned to baseline. A glitch I cannot correct as for the name given the watch but aside from that, seems to function well.

stainless GPS + cellular series 5 here. cellular off, app refresh off, AOD off, dark watch face, only using 4 complications....at noon I was at 52% after an all night charge.

is there any hope for this???

seems, that each Watch is different. I started my Watch at 6 a.m. with 100%, cellular, headset, music is on. At 7 p.m. it is at 69%. Thats a fine battery condition. Background refresh is off, calendar, iMassage, Mails syncing is on.

So yesterday I completely wiped my iPhone 11 Pro and Watch 5, and set them both up as new devices. I logged in with my apple ID, added a mail account and installed 3 apps I need. The rest is all stock.

Watch drained at a rate of 5.2% per hour (that gives about 19 hours of usage with NOTHING other than wearing it, and AOD on). That is much better than what it was (12-13% per hour). However it is still not what I expected.

Today the watch is draining at a rate of 7.2% per hour so far - not looking good

So last night I did a hard reboot of my watch, which took about 2 minutes for it to shut down and come back up. I also turned off the always on display and set it to the dimmest setting (which annoys the crap out of me.) However my battery life has vastly improved. I'm glad I didn't have to go to the unpair/repair advice, at least yet. This is really unfortunate and I'm very disappointed with this watch. It feels like it was rushed and there's some obvious glitches. Whether it's the battery/hardware/software remains to be seen. I hope Apple addresses it soon.

The senior advisor I've been working with just called me. They had put a profile on my Series 5 last week to do some tests. He said today the engineers are aware of a problem and expect to fix it in an update. He didn't have anymore info than that but it's somewhat encouraging to get an acknowledgement of the problem. I guess time will tell, but hopefully not to long because my return window with Amazon closes in a couple weeks.

I had the same issue where the battery would drain so much and be dead after 5-6 hrs. I resolved it over the weekend. I suspected it was related to iCloud reminders as I had issues with it syncing on my iPhone and iPad. Once I turned off iCloud reminders on my iPhone and used reminders locally stored on the iPhone, it resolved my battery issues on my watch.

Of course turning off iCloud reminders would delete every reminder and you’ll need to recreate it locally. I am still waiting for Apple to fix my iCloud reminders syncing issues (didn’t resolve with iOS 13.1.2 installed)

I gave up. S5 titanium GPS+Cellular 44mm.

I did the reset dance, paired as a new watch etc. I had Apple install the profile on my watch and do all the diagnostics. Sent them the log files and hourly screenshots. The last straw was the worst day for battery life, 9.5 hours from a full tank. My S4 would always get to the end of the day with around 30-40% even after a busy work day and a run.

Following analysis of the logs Apple’s recommendation was to update to iOS 13.1.2 and WatchOS 6.0.1. They confirmed the latter contained a performance enhancement for the watch to address the battery performance issue. I’d already re packaged it and filed for a return by this point. My trusty S4 is back in business. AOD be ******. I lost almost a whole weekend messing around, measuring and procrastinating.

I personally dont don’t think the problem is AOD, noise monitoring or compass. I *think* it’s the way the S5 handles it’s comms. I would frequently notice the red disconnected icon on the screen, indicating that it had lost location with the phone’s Bluetooth. Whenever I checked it status I could see that it hadn’t reconnected to Wi-Fi in the absence of my phon like my S4 would do seamlessly. Instead it seemed to favour trying to connect to the marginal cellular coverage in my area rather than the prevalent Wi-Fi. I am convinced that this behaviour was the cause of my battery drain.

Maybe the software is the fix and I had a properly faulty watch?

Even now, running all the latest OS’s, the S4 still performs the way it always did. No comms issues and he battery iOS lasting as expected.

its a real shame. I have had every Watch version since series 0 and was looking forward to this. The S5 was always a bit of a luxury move for me over the S4 - considering it was only a minor improvement in terms of features over the S4 (in my view).

Heres to hoping the 6 is something special (and reliable) next year. Who knows, I might cave once I see reports that this is actually fixed!

My S4 is only wifi, and i have this same issue. I did everything including as someone suggested disabling reminders. Still i can barely make it through one day as opposed to two says and a spare 20%.

My watch is also on watchOS 6.0.1

i also noticed that my iPad Pro 9.7 and iPhone x are also experiencing battery drain despite iOS 13.1.2

So this is my last update. With AOD on yesterday, I managed to be at 25% after 32 hours. Apple definitely fixed something because I was originally at 10 hours. I don't particularly need AOD on except when I'm working out, but it was nice to be able to have it on with no issues.

My Apple Watch 4 usually had about 1/3 of its battery left when I went to bed. My new watch 5 is down to 10% by dinner time. I have all the same apps and I haven’t been using any new features (at least not intentionally). This morning I have done nothing but sit at my desk using my iPad, but the watch 5 down to 87% by 9am. This is definitely not what was advertised nor is it at all acceptable. I should have saved the packaging so I can return it. Big step backwards for Apple Watch

Whatever the amount of time was that lapsed from the last full charge. If it was 8 hours since the last charge they would both show as 8 hours. Clearly buggy. As the watch is not used - it is on my arm showing time, not doing anything else.