Apple Watch series 5 battery life

Here is the website that shows apples statement on battery life.

https://www.apple.com/watch/battery/

I am very sad with the S5 battery life. Yesterday it died after 12 hours...

with S4s I got 40% left after 16-18 hours of daily usage. That is crazy!

After a 45 minute workout and normal day use my S3 would be at 60% by 10 pm. First day with the S5 and after the same kind of day, it’s at 24%. Hopefully it will be fixed with an update.

Sounds like it needs replaced

Yep 11% per hour... My watch is dead. It was 100% at 09:00 this morning, did NOTHING except wear it with AOD, it has 6.0.1 and is shut down at 19:30. 10 hours 30 minutes... :(

My update for same issue ... did the reset/unpair, update, and nothing has improved. With my series 4 I'd usually have 40-50% after 22 hrs, now I'm always in the red (<20%).

Is your S4 also cellular+wifi? Seeing some reports that it might be only affecting the cellular+wifi models, not the wifi only ones.

Oh I did more than that. Four days ago I wiped my watch, my phone and my ipad. I set them all up as new devices - not restoring anything. Same issues.

Just got a new watch - same issues. Definitely not hardware. I will wait 12 days and hope for a software fix.

My wifes 40mm celluar has never had a battery issue. Mine did at first but I went to bed at 46% last night. On my wrist for 14 hours and 2 hours of workouts.

watchOS 6.1 is out of beta.

Updated to 6.1 this morning, charged back to 100%.

After 12 hours, around 3.5% drain per hour......which is about the same as before the update. ☹️

So after several days with watchOS 6.1, I am sad to say that my battery life is even worse now. I never get through a day. By 19:00 the battery is drained every day. This is not a whole day watch.

I also traded my shiny new S5 in the first two weeks of owning it for a replacement due to battery issues; the hardware is not the problem.