Battery Indicator Incorrect on Series 5 Apple Watch

I’m having the identical issue with the battery minder on my month old series 5. It’s stuck at 100 now and crashed yesterday at 35%. Have not performed anything but a reboot.. Many suggestions on Apple support forums and such but apparently no one has found the key to this problem so far. It is astonishing that this issue has been a problem for many in all the series’ with no real solution that works save send it to Apple, get diagnosed.

Hi,

I have exactly the same same problem with my Apple Watch 6 purchased last December 2019. But since one month the problem started once, yesterday again and today again: the indicator shows 99% for 12 hours then after short time it goes slowly to 30% and suddenly its dead. If I put it on the charger the system restarts again. It takes about two hours to charge to 99% and another more than 30 minutes to 100%.

please Apple tell me what to do!!!!

George

Watch beta is not available yet - only iOS 14 for iPhone & the iPad beta. Strongly caution against downloading the beta for your iPhone. I did so today & so far, several apps are not working well at all.

Ditto. My Series 5 has started crashing out of nowhere over the last three days at increasing frequency. It'll show a decent charge one minute, and when I look down again a few minutes later, it's gone. It won't turn on again until I place it back on the charger. Once it powers back on, it's showing the same charge. It's done this everywhere between 50 and 95%. I'm getting annoyed. I've only had it three weeks. For the first week, the charge didn't go above 99% no matter if I left it on the charger all night. I just chalked it up to a quirk of the watch. Then it hit 100% and remained there for the longest time before finally inching down. Now it's doing this.

Unpairing hasn't helped. Shutting down background refresh on the apps has done nothing. Hard reboot: also nothing. The software on both the watch and iPhone 11 is up to date. I disabled the always on option a few hours ago when I noticed it wasn't defaulting to the time after 15 seconds. The charge has remained at 99% since then -- not that that means anything, but it hasn't died, yet, either.

It looks like Apple is preparing to release watchOS 6.2.8 this coming week (devs have received the Golden Master July 10/20). Maybe wait to try that. No idea if it fixes the issue, but may be worth a try before installing the beta of 7.

My new series 5 at first got stuck on 100% for a week or so when it would start to discharge at 8 pm I charge at midnight at 80%. Then it corrected itself and started to discharge normally for a week. Then I installed 6.2.8 yesterday and the problem returned today. It works fine as long as I charge it every night. This should be solved by now for all the series’ report similar problems with the charge meter.

Battery indicator on Series 5 is not consistent. Goes dead overnight when it said it was fully charged before retiring. Apple logo appears when putting it back on charger. Never had this issue with Series 3, bought Series 5 less than a month ago. As much as you charge for these things, one would think that you would be willing to come up with a solution?

Mr. Plummer

Hang in there - for some reason my watch battery drain ended one day. My guess is that the watch chooses a slow time to ( i can't recall the exact term) re-index and causes the drain much like the iPhone does after some updates. I've notice the iPhone drain much the same way for about a month and then the problem goes away.

Hello,

I am curious if your battery drain issue has gone away.

My watch is now normal and I wanted to add for others (if your issue was resolved) that apple iPhones go through an indexing process after some updates which causes battery drain throughout the night and my guess is that the watch does exactly the same thing. I've never had the watch drain while using, only when it wasn't in use which leads me to believe that indexing is the cause.

Microsoft windows performs this action in the evening and they call it "defragmentation" and it will slow the computer to a crawl and use up battery pretty fast on a laptop.

Please let us know if your issue was resolved.

Hello,

Perhaps give it a month - my watch issues are now resolved. I've recently posted to others that I believe it is an indexing issue (microsoft called it defragmentation) and the iPhone has the same issue after some updates and this has been going on for years. Another "forum contributor" said that the iPhone issue was indexing and it is a battery hog for about a month. My guess is if computers go through indexing and iPhones, why not Apple Watch. Like I mentioned, my watch issues are gone after a month and all is good. My only wish is that apple told their people and us what to expect when indexing occurs - if that's what is in fact going on.

I am having the same issue on my BRAND NEW watch. I am seeing to give it around 30 days, but I am scared to do that, because then I wouldn’t be able to return it without the extra coverage. I called Apple Support and they were not helpful and acted as if this was the very first time they were hearing of this issue, which was concerning because that tells me that Apple is not working on a fix. Any suggestions on what I should do?

Give it 30 days to finish indexing - the same problem occurs with the phone when folks say "the new update is killing my battery time". Apple should be better about letting their customers know what to expect after an update when a product begins "re-indexing". As I mentioned, this is the same as microsoft windows "Defragmentation". MS performs this now when the computer is not in use.

On my 3rd battle with this same problem.

First time, a hard reset fixed it and it lasted about two months.

Second time tried a hard reset maybe 10 times to no avail. Unpaired then watch and repaired it and corrected the problem.

On my third time, this time the repairing did nothing. Tried the suggestion of putting it I. Airplane mode and turning off the Bluetooth, waiting a few minutes then turning off airplane mode. So far that seems to work because when I put it in charge it did not show 60% as soon as the watch had enough charge to turn on.

My series 5 after Mysteriously correcting itself a week ago from staying on 100% until late afternoon now stays on 100 from 7 or 8 AM when removed from the charger until I put it on the charger at midnight. It works fine otherwise.

The only thing that has worked semi-consistently for me when this inevitably happens again is to turn the watch off, leave it off for 30 minutes to an hour, then turn it back on. That seems to reset the battery display for some reason. Hoping for an actual fix ASAP - crazy that this is still an issue after so many months.