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.
On Sunday by 10:09 PM my standby time was 12 hrs 12 min and my usage time was 10 hrs 23 min. I’ve found that the only way to cut down usage time is to disconnect from WiFi and Bluetooth (as well as LTE). This is with no 3rd party apps on the watch at all and background app refresh turned off on almost all apps (only workout app and messages are on).
No, I got you. All batteries will drain. 2% drop over 20 days seems abnormal to me actually!
Based upon your posts above, 8% loss per hour is bad. I think that is kinda what I was getting. Try turning the dictation on an off. That is what I did before my battery life returned but I don't know if it was the cause or just coincidence.
But will it really have an effect (in hardware terms) on the Watch battery? Or does it remain only a software-relarted issue?
I have signed out of iCloud now (another workaround mentioned somewhere), and will check again what happens in a couple of hours. If this does not make any difference, I wilI sign into iCloud again, wait a couple of days and if the problem still persists I will restore my watch as new and pair it with another iPhone that I have, fot the final test. It seems there is a long way go until we discover whether the problem is software related or if the battery itself is faulty.
I would strongly recommend that you check into the logs your watch produces (see General>Diagnostic Logs inside the Watch app on your phone). Look through some of them, see if you spot something that says “TrustedPeersHelper”. If yes, there’s a solution! My Apple Watch is completely fixed after I followed the steps in my post. Back to 60% after 14 hours of use!
Only runs normally if I wipe the watch and set up as new. Stays normal for 2-3 days, then reverts back to 12 hour total battery.
Also have a look at this thread
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250948193?answerId=251894192022#251894192022
Schedule a genius appointment then. See if the battery is defective. That's about all you can do now. I'm leaning towards them telling you it's not a battery issue.
Take it to an Apple store. Nothing more to be gained from posting here.
I am sorry you had to face this problem
Seems like a case of a fault in the battery.
I'd advise you take your watch to the apple service centre.
Glad to know it's not just me. My Apple Series 3 watch has been brilliant. It will have around 40-50% left when it goes onto charge overnight. Im now running out of charge by mid afternoon - all since the last upgrade. Hope Apple can sort this quickly.
My Apple Series 3 watch has been brilliant. It will have around 40-50% left when it goes onto charge overnight. Im now running out of charge by mid afternoon - all since the last upgrade. Hope Apple can sort this quickly.
I had the same thing happen to me on my Series 2 watch yesterday - it was fully charged at 8am and completely drained before 4pm on a sedentary work day. Prior to this, it used to last all day even with at least one 1-1.5hr workout at the end of the day.
Powering off my iPhone and watch, then powering them on again as suggested unfortunately did not help in my case.
I have the iPhone XS Max, and an Apple Watch Series 2. The day after I updated to WatchOS 5.3.2, my battery tanked. I charged it overnight, put it on at 7:45am, and it was dead by 1pm!
After reading this thread I turned it off, turned off my phone, restarted both, then removed the Now Playing complication- which somehow made it worse, it was completely dead by 11am.
Hoping there’s a fix soon!
Same thing with my apple watch 4. I have iPhone 11 pro. Will be dead in 6-8 hours. I have noticed the screen sometimes is brighter at times and the screen stays on sometimes for long periods of time. Seems like notifications make the screen stay on longer or wont turn off until you manually close the notifications.
Same here! Every time after I go for a run it gets way worse! I was also having an issue where my run would pause and unpause extremely frequently about 20 minutes into my run. I just updated to 6.2 last night and I’m really hoping that fixes everything! So far today it seems like it has definitely helped and things are back to normal but I won’t know for sure until after I run this evening
Apple Watch sudden battery drain?
