Battery Indicator Incorrect on Series 5 Apple Watch

So I charged my Apple Watch 5 last night for 40 minutes before going to bed. Went to bed with 100% charge. Woke up this morning with 100% charge. Battery indicator percentage started going down about 11 hours after I pulled it off the charger last night. Was at 91% an hour later when I started a workout. Looked down & the watch was off - done. The workout didn’t even register in the Activity app. Put the watch on the charger & about a minute later it was 91% & charging. Another minute - 90% and charging. Still there a few minutes later. Took it off the charger & turned off, waited a minute, turned on, 91%. I only use the OEM Apple Watch charger that came with the watch. The back gets warm during the charging process - anyone else have this?? I have Apple Care & spent too much time a week ago with Apple Support, who found nothing during diagnostics. Sure don’t want to send it in just to have Apple Support send it back, as others have documented in this thread. I live hours away from an Apple storefront. Watch & Phone are up-to-date OS. My Apple Watch 2 was a phenomenal device compared to this one!!

Same issue here. Watch is 5 weeks old. Battery stays at 100% all day, then dies. Attach to charger, battery indicator is suddenly at 45% or so, then it goes down to 40% while on the charger before it decides to go upward.

Super annoying. I've had no issues with any Watch model before this.

Wow some thread.

i too have a 5 paired to an XS.

it works fine for around 4 days then on the next day, with 100% charge leaving home, it’s on 8% five hours later in the office.

it happened again today, and what I did notice this morning was the watch was warm to touch on the back when I lifted it off the charger in the morning. Even though it’s normally stone cold to lift off, on the days its died early it’s been hot...like there is something drawing extra current.

was fine for 3 months when I got it, but now this is almost a weekly issue.

So good to hear we are not alone. I was able to return my 1st Apple 5 Watch because it was stuck at 100% or dead and became very warm when charging. The replacement was fine for 3 weeks - now it will charge to 77% and stop. And that takes FOR. EV. ER.........

As an added note, the new watchOS 7 release includes a Battery setting that shows details similar to the iPhone, including last charge time and percent, a graph of use, and a health percentage showing charging capacity. My recent charges show charging to 99% and a seemingly correct use that drops steadily over the last 24 hours.

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.

You’re in luck. Apple opened their public beta today: https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/enroll

Just be warned, these are betas, so use at your own risk. (that being said, they’ve been very stable this year in my experience).

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.

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.

I’ve had this problem for awhile, created a support ticket and they sent me through the standard steps that don’t resolve the issue. I keep hoping that an update will fix, but to no avail. I notice if I do multiple hard resets the battery life will change on each reset most of the time. It will go from 100% to Zero...Zero to 70%....70% to 30%...and sometimes it will stay the same. It’s frustrating for sure. I had a Series 3 and never had any issues.

That worked for me but I couldn't always leave it charging for 3 hours and then wait with it off for 30 minutes.

I finally installed the beta versions on my iphone and watch last night. So will now see. The watch fully discharged during the night and is now recharging.

I have tried everything. I did a factory reset and everything now today and still no banana. Just a few minutes ago my watch got to 72% and stopped working and gave me the squiggly apple watch charger image. None of this started until I updated the watch to OS7. Very disappointed in this product right now.

Yeah - when you turn it off completely, don't put it on the charger. Just turn it off and leave it off the charger for an hour or so, because as @schja01 mentioned, putting it on the charger turns it right back on.

Hold the button in on the side (not the round one). In a few second off switch will appear on the screen. Slide it to the right.

I wonder if just shutting down the Watch for 30+ minutes would be enough? Something for me to try if I too start experiencing it again.