With absolutely no changes in usage, apps, charge cycles or anything else, my watch battery, which normally lasts 16 hours and still has 40% or more, started dying within six hours three days ago. I have read past posts from 2017-2019 on this topic. I restarted the phone and the watch. No change. It is 9AM and my watch was 100% at 5AM and is now at 56%. It is usually at about 93% at 9AM. Anybody have any ideas?
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With lack of response from anyone with knowledge a fix, I returned to the settings and discovered that every single app was set to background refresh. This is absolutely not something I would have done on my own. I am a stickler about this on all of my devices. Also, it should be noted that this problem began shortly after an automatic update. It is my unproven theory that something in a recent update tripped those switches. I reset them all to off, and then turned on the four or five I wanted to have on and the problem seems to have improved greatly, if not completely.
Same, same. I’ve noticed that after I contacted my iPhone 12 Pro to it, it started draining fast. With in 6-8 hours completely dead. Never had that problem, never did anything different, I even erased some apps I don’t use anymore.
what’s the deal Apple??
I had a similar issue yesterday - charged my watch to 100% around 12pm, by 8pm same day it was completely drained. I don't keep the watch face on and usually get around 2 days on a full charge. Monitoring today to see how it goes but it was a large drop and very unusual. I have a Series 4 with latest WatchOS.
same problem ,got apple watch series 4 on Nov 30 2019 ,battery would hold charge for roughly a day and half then after one year the charge would drop dramatically and runs out of charge over 4-5 hours ,honestly happened after one year ,tried everything as unpairing ,turning off ,updating software ,changing charger ,i am not a heavy user for apple watch ,now apple support can not help ,i have to send for repair which is going to cost a lot as i do not have warranty ,very frustrating
I have the same issue. Battery drain within 8 hours, I just got this watch for 1 week.
Apple just removed my post bc I said this sham was also happening to iPhones that they had purposeful updates to drain batteries
I have the same problem for months with my series 5.
Updates, genius bar and pairings haven't changed anything.
While I am running, the battery drains after 30 minutes on the workout app. when I plug it in, it comes back to 70%. unbearable at this price.
Apple Watch Series 4 Sudden Battery Drain
