Is there something strange happening with WatchOS today? I have a Series 2 Nike Edition running 5.3.2 and a Series 5 Nike Edition running 6.0.1. Both has normal "all day battery" life prior to today. However, today both have drained battery much quicker (the Series 2 drained almost completely in half a day, the Series 5 now down to 7% after 10 hours). What would cause this sudden battery drain? No change in usage.
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This is a follow up to my previous posts. I found that my iPhone and Apple Watch were still draining faster than they should.
Reviewing the diagnostic logs from my iPhone and watch, I found TrustedPeersHelper still taking a lot of CPU on both devices. My mac has been fine, but something still wasn't right with my other devices.
So, this time I ran this terminal command from my mac: tpctl reset
I was then forced to login to iCloud on my mac and iPhone, but ever since my watch and iPhone are not running hot. Yesterday, I wore my watch from 7 am to midnight, and I still had 60% remaining on my watch, and 70% on my iPhone.
The "tpctl reset" resolved all of my battery issues!
If you don't have a mac, I'd recommend calling Apple or going to an Apple store. They must have a way to do the equivalent of "tpctl reset" on your behalf from their side. I hope this helps everyone.
Thank you for your comprehensive reply. Please, let me focus on one thing that makes me think there is a (h/w) battery problem (either it was from manufacture, or it became after the software issues):
The watch, after unboxing and switching on, had about 60-70% power ypon initial setup. So, it was like that for weeks, even months (after manufacture). So, how come that it was completely drained (100% to 0%) after just 5.5 days SWITCHED OFF, if it was just a s/w issue?
I would really appreciate a convincing explanation of this behavior. It doesn't sound normal to me at all.
I have seen the Mac fix, but this means for any of us (many of us) who does not have a Mac, there is no way to fix the watch? Someone also mentioned it earlier, but buying an expensive watch i think entitle you to get some support from the manufacturer, and you need not to go to such trouble just to get it functioning. Apple really must step up their game, at this rate i am considering going back to a regular casio or such, at least it does not just die.
I say Apple should help only because i have exhausted all possible fixes (unpair, set up as new, hard resets inbetween, even logging everything out of itunes, hardresetting, and repairing, before signing in again. I have not have any joy yet, so i keep on waiting for either Apple to fix, or someone to share something that can work for my watch too :)
Then just follow my post (scroll up)! You need to follow it exactly as stated and also reset you Watch at the end (set it up as new).
Did this a week ago, still no issue - all back to normal. Seriously Apple? The solution was posted back in November and there’s still no patch for it?
Alright, I followed the procedure and now the TrustedPeersHelper on my Catalina Mac is at a constant 0% CPU. The databases seem to have gone back to a reasonable size (307 KB, 33 KB and 1.9 MB). Before the reset they were quite larger.
After the watch reset I no longer have a TrustedPeersHelper diagnostic log on it, so I'll use of for the rest of the day and see what happens.
I also did a tpctl validate and check the output, which seems to be correct. I can identify all the devices that appear as trusted and each success node is true and accountHealth is 1
BTW, the tpctl reset command seems to do the exact same as manually deleting the db, db-shm and db-wal files, because when I run it the first time, it output an error about not finding the files.
Thanks a lot for your help man!
When I run "tpctl validate" from my Mac, I see old devices in the output that I no longer have. I've checked iCloud settings and these devices don't show on iCloud. Where are they coming from? And how do I clean them up?
If I can clean up the device list, this may resolve the watch battery issue.
Hmm. My series 5, on Power Reserve Mode, just burned through the last 7% battery in less than 10 minutes.
Restarted the watch (held crown and side button down until Apple logo came up), charged to full overnight. 20 minutes later with next to no use I'm at 87% battery.
Ack, it's not just me then. I have a Series 3 that I've been getting through the day just fine, but yesterday it was all the way down to reserve power by mid afternoon.
Did you try the iPhone/watch shutdown/restart procedure:
Mine seems to be back to normal after that.
thanks I've given that a try. Lets see what happens! Cheers
Same here. I have a series 4 running the latest Watch OS. I took my watch off the charger at 6am and it’s dead by 1pm. What the heck?
Glad that worked for you! I wouldn't be surprised if there were some background process going on from some recent app/OS update either with the watch or phone, and we just didn't know about it.
my watch is now dead after 4 hours? This happened yesterday as well? I updated my phone and watch on Sunday- is there any fix?
Will give this a go, once my watch series 4 is charged again! 🤦🏼♀️
Apple Watch sudden battery drain?
