Apple Watch series 5 battery life

I’d like to know how people are getting on with the S5 now that there have been several updates. I sent mine back shortly after the launch. After a week of diagnostics and hassle I just couldn’t cope with the terrible battery life after having such a positive experience with the Series 4.

I don’t see many new complaints or articles in the news feeds about it now.

I decided to return my S5 a week in, as I didn't want to get stuck and not be able to return it. Back to my s4 and not have to worry about battery life. I was going to revisit this thread every few months and if ever resolved with the S5, I would try again. Seems like it is time to check back in a few months.

Excellent. It’s finally out. Yes this software update is what I’ve been using in beta. I get 24-30 hours from my S5. I have the non cellular version. Previously getting 12-16 hours from a charge. Hope it works for you too!

Sadly this update does nothing for me. Same poor battery life as always. I will give it some more days but I am not keeping my hopes up. Apple engineers have not yet come back to me with a resolution with my case.

Crikey! That’s terrible. When I first installed the beta version of 6.1.1 the first couple of charge cycles were bad then it suddenly came good and has been ever since. Sorry I’ve got everyone’s hopes up. Mine is still getting 24-30. I have turned off a lot of app notifications and just run with a few key ones like email and messages. I thought that was causing a bit of a battery drain. I also go in from time to time and kill apps running in the background.

If you have a MacBook or other Mac computer then check activity monitor for TrustedPeers Helper if it is greater than 2 or 3 % then this will start to impact your battery life on Apple Watch , iPhone and iPad.

I had shocking watch battery life less than 12 hours with TrustedPeersHelper (TPH) running at near 100%.

There are a couple of fixes listed on this and other threads and they work but the root cause I believe is your Apple ID Profile.

I have used the fixes and got TPH down to 0% and wow what a difference to my iPad, iPhone and massive improvement on my watch from12 - 40 hours (bear in mind my watch has everything turned off as a result of trying every other fix I could find)

but gradually over several days the TPH started using more percentage and mine is now up to 12% and it is starting to show again on my watch battery life. After yesterdays workout which was 90 minutes I had 55% left but after todays 60 minute work out it is down to 44% - that's still good and I will still get more than 24 hours out of my watch but as TPH demands more and more cpu time the battery life will continue to drop.

TPH - is a process that actually runs on all apple devices perhaps under different names on phones and watches - its purpose is to ensure that all devices using the same Apple ID are to be trusted. The more CPU it is using the harder it is working and the same happens on the watch and phone - on the watch usage time gets larger in relation to standby time which decreases until eventually they are nearly the same and then you have 10-12 hours battery life on your watch.

You can search for TrustedPeersHelper fixes and there are a couple.

On your Mac in terminal type

tpctl validate | head

this may not return which is a good indicator something is wrong - so kill the process if it has not returned after 10 seconds.

then type

rm -f ~/Library/Keychains/*/com.apple.security.keychain-defaultContext.TrustedPeersHelper.{db,db-shm,db-wal}

This clears part of the keychain database - this cured it for me but it obviously is building it back and it is now getting worse again. TPH will restart and the % should be very low.and very quickly become 0%

if you follow up with

tpctl validate | head

You should get after a couple of seconds something like this

{

  "health" : 1,

  "results" : {

    "results" : [

      {

        "accountHealth" : 1,

        "name" : "ReceiverlessPeerValidator",

        "success" : true,

        "tlkShare" : {

          "allPeersCount" : "25",

Logout of all devices from iCloud and then reload in and check battery life - it should show an improvement (better the improvement the greater TPH was running at)

I still believe there is something that is causing my TPH process to increase CPU demand over several days and I believe this is something to do with my Apple ID - I bet I end up needing to scrape my id and create a new one which has all sorts of ramifications fo me.

good luck

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

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

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.

This seems to be part of my issue:

Mine lasts nowhere near as long as my S4.

I’d say about half the battery life? Bit disappointed if I’m honest.

I’m returning mine. Doesn’t make through the day.