Apple Watch series 5 battery life

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.

3.5% is perfectly within specifications. That will give you 28.5 hours of use, or with some activity dropping to still above 18 hours which is what they promised. My issue is that mine drops at a rate of 8% per hour. That gives you less than 13 hours - way less than the 18 they promised.

I unpaired and repaired mine, also reset to factory and re-synced everything. I'm running the current update to iOS that dropped yesterday and the watch is up to date. I have not had battery drain issues since I did this about 3-4 weeks ago. A full charge actually will last me nearly 2 days, though I haven't been very active and I still charge it at night after it's around 40-50%. But I'm easily going from 7am to 10-11pm on one charge now. Where as before, like many of you, I was losing 1-10% per hour. Interesting how this is not working for some people. My watch is series 5, 40mm.

Underwhelming update. I uninstalled the beta profile and installed the final version of 6.1. Got a measly 10 hours off a full charge which included a half hour bike ride. Charged at 3pm, to bed at 10pm after cycling with 53% charge remaining, battery drained by 1am. The beta was actually better than the final version. We don’t get the cellular model in NZ so it’s not just a cellular issue. I have 44mm. Wife has 40mm. It does seem to be a 44mm issue.

Just a general observation from my side. I have been through three Series 5 watches - all 40mm, first two were cellular, last one is GPS. I have tested all updates and combinations of resetting etc. The one thing I noted is that with any of these watches, I'd use it for the day and get x% battery drain per hour. I would put it on the charger at night, sleep, wake up next morning, take it off and put it on my wrist at 100%. That day it would drain at a rate of y%. That night same thing, take off, charge, wake up and put on. It would drain at a rate of z%. x, y and z can vary anywhere from 3.5% (good) to 11% (horrible). The mere act of charging it and putting it back on my wrist had a way bigger effect than any watchOS updates.

Yes mine completely goes dead when watch still shows it has 40% battery left, I’ve only had it two weeks but Apple customer service sucks, they said I would have to send it in and wait for it to be fixed instead of replacing it like a stand up company would.

If you are within two weeks they’ll exchange (almost) without question (as long it’s not damaged etc). My first Apple Watch 5 got exchanged that way when I was having major issues with it. Perhaps you’ve fallen outside that period, in which case they explained to me it is a repair under warranty.

Yea I have had it like 18 days but still ridiculous it should be close enough to the 14 days, I mean just not very good support if you ask me it had this problem since right after I got it but I thought some charge cycles would straighten it out but no luck, I’ve always been a Apple fan but not after this.

That is not good at all. Apple told me I'd have to send mine in for repair or as I'd bought it from a different retail store I had to go back to them and they replaced it without question.

My replaced watch 5 is much better than my first one and even seems to be even better after 6.1 update.

I have also bought a fabulous little keychain watch wireless charger to carry around with me in case I do run out of battery at any stage. I shouldn't have to but I feel much safer having it.

I'm sitting here at 71%. Watch off the charger for 12 hours. And worked out earlier today for an hour. Yesterday did a 3 hour run, gps and music. Went to bed after 16 hours with 20%.

Have you tried a full reset of the watch by unpairing it from your phone? What kind of apps are you running, because I feel I use mine more than average and ever since repairing it it's been working great.

PS: I have the AOD active, I think the noise app is disabled. This is the cellular model.

I have reset, wiped, clean install without backups, perhaps 15 times since series 5 came out across 3 watches I tried. I did a reset just this morning again - no restore from backup, setting it up as new watch. I have changed nothing from the defaults. Still drains at 7 - 8% per hour, which leaves me with less than 13 hours when not using it at all. Noise off, AOD on. Mine is GPS as I returned my cellular after thinking it might be specific to cellular, but alas, same issues with this GPS only watch.

I did a full reset of the iPhone a while ago, setting it up from scratch. I unfortunately only have this new iPhone 11 Pro so I cannot swop it. But you might be right, I also thought about it as I do not get very good battery life on this phone either. It is at 30% at the end of the day and I do not use it extensively. My old iPhone X was way better.

Sounds like there is some issue with the phone as most people rave about how much better the battery life is on those flash new 11’s.

I would get Apple to run some diagnostics on the phone to see what’s going on. Hope they can find something for you!

Is there anyone else still having terrible battery life on their series 5 watches? I have been dealing with AppleCare support for the past three weeks and after multiple sets of diagnostic log collections they still have no resolution of my 8 - 12 hour battery life. Is it just me?