WatchOs 6.2.6 Draining Battery

@Mellon420, I appreciate all your trouble shooting tips, but I'm gonna push back a bit on your 1,000 cycles pontificating. My watch worked fine until a week and a half ago. At that point I had already been using my watch for 2 and a half years. I don't believe in coincidences. At that time I upgraded to 6.2.6. I used my watch normally on Saturday the 29th of May and around 3pm I got the pulse on my wrist that my watch was at 10%.

I have done all the trouble shooting of unpairing, resetting, your tips and calling Apple support. Apple did the battery diagnostic and told me the battery did not fail! They suggested giving it a couple months to see if it improves or to test the battery again. I can appreciate your advice on charging, but I'm no rookie to battery management as I drive a Tesla and keep it charged between 20 to 80% at nearly all times. It is impossible to do that with an Apple Watch, nor should you have to.

This latest update is causing battery issues for watch owners, there is nothing left to rule out. Maybe the update is the push over the edge for older watches, but there is no undoing the latest update. I wouldn't trust buying a new battery for my watch at this point anyway, so I will charge it twice a day until that becomes too annoying and I replace it.

@MCC_1277 I tried All the steps that Melon suggested but I did not discharge it completely. I thought the trick wouldnt work for me but After Fully discharging and completely refueling it and leaving it at 100% on the charger for anorher 20mins. The Battery lasts about 2 days.

try it i really hope it works for you man

I am you. All was fine until I did the software update. I could go from 8pm-9pm until 5pm the next day and still have over 40% left on the battery. After the update two days in a row by 2pm I was at 5% battery left. Didn't happen like that before the update..

Sadly completely draining the battery and recharging to 100% did not make a change. I was just down to 46% after 7 hours of watch wear. I did go for a 45 minute walk this morning and used the workout app to track it. That drained about 13% of the battery. I really have exhausted what all of you fine folks have suggested. I’m going to wait for the next Apple update to see if it gives any battery improvement. If not I will upgrade to a new watch. As @Mellon420 stated, I’m beyond 1,000 charges in 2.5 years, so beyond batrrry expiration date. Just wish the drop off wasn’t as fast as it has been in last 2 weeks.

Have been experiencing the same issue since 6.2.6. Was not having any issues prior to that release.

I have unpaired/repaired 3 times now, with absolutely no improvement.

Watch stuck at 100% for hours, and then suddenly dies. Will only power up when plugged into the charger. When it powers up, shows a false 100% charge.

Read on 9to5Mac forums that after plugged in for 2+ hours, power the watch off and let it sit for 15-30 minutes. Somehow this ‘calibrates’ the battery again. I tried this solution, and while the battery did descend from 100% somewhat normally, it shut down at around 45% yesterday.

It’s really frustrating to not see any acknowledgment of the issue and/or hotfix to correct it.

So my update....I bought a new Apple Watch Nike edition version 3. I bought directly from Apple with a trade in of my Version 2 Nike which Apple is giving me $60.

So the new watch is working great with no battery issues. I am still using many of the battery saving tips. I have not updated to 6.2.6. I am running 6.2.1 at the moment. I will not update to 6.2.6. I will wait until more feedback from the forum on when I will update the software to the latest version.

My wife's Series 3 38mm has less than 600 battery charges (she got the watch on 12/25/2018, i figured one charge a day) its less than 600. Its only an assumption but a safe assumption to say she has not reached the 1000 charges. Since 6.2.6, she's at 35% by 5:00, typically she is not at the 30's until 11:00 at night if at all before her next charge. My Series 3 42mm which is just over a year old does not seem to be plagued by 6.2.6 with battery issues. It's odd. We turned off a lot of the location services for app that she does not need. But either way, her watch battery was fine until 6.2.6, so I don't think the answer is that we need to alter the way she uses the watch unless Apple comes out and says "... because of 6.2.6 we suggest users do this... to keep battery life optimal".

Since my last post on 21st June. My battery life has been completely varied. Fine most days. But if I listen to music on my phone it seems to drain the watch. Just had to put it on charge now as it’s dropped to 10% since 8am this morning

I have the same issue. I bought my watch in March 2019 and now, all of a sudden, it shuts off completely at 54%. When plugged in, it starts to charge from 54% as well. I get a few hours out of the charge - if I don't use any of the features of the watch other than using it for time. Seems like my watch just turned into a $600 brick after ONLY 14 MONTHS.

Save your money... buy another brand. I love apple, but these "battery" issues on their products are becoming a suspect way of forced upgrades. Submit a case and wait to be told to please wait some more as their "engineers" are looking into your issue, but they can't (or won't) provide any feedback as to what they are doing or have done to investigate.

Apple - Please assist your customers.

I have the same, normaly no problem with my Nike Series 3, but the latest update gives fast drain and shutdown around 45% of battery capacity. after connect to charger, it builds from 45% up to 100% but it shuts down every time around 45%.

What can we do to get the watch to work properly?

I did what one post suggested and I unpaired my watch from my phone. When I paired with my phone again I paired as a new Device and turned off all the notifications accept the basic ones I need for work. It helped but I can only get 12hrs. Before it’s completely dead.

I've tried all the suggested steps outline in this thread and still have same battery drain. I didn't have this before OS 6.2.6 and still having same issue with os 6.2.8. I have checked for whether airplane mode and bluetooth were on, so followed the steps outlined there. I also did the reset and restore from backup still same issue. I also did the reset to factory and do not restore from backup, and same issue. Before June my watch was lasting more than a day. Now the battery drains pretty fast. Would be nice if I can at least see which process is using up the battery and causing the drain to disable. Maybe it is apple's way to force you to buy a new watch after sometime which would be sad. Also looks to me like possibly bluetooth on apple watch seems to be constantly searching for devices and health devices (headphones, etc). Wonder if that causes the battery to drain but need bluetooth on to connect to apple watch.