watchos 7 series 4 battery drain

I have an Apple Watch Series 3 and came here to see if others had faster battery drain on watchOS 7.

My AW normally will be around 70% when I go to bed (I charge it overnight), and it's already at 64% and it's got 6 hours to go!

I don't have an answer, but I just updated to OS 7 on 09/18/20. I usually have about 30% battery at bed time. Yesterday (09/18) and today (09/19), I have to charge the watch with 4 hours of my day to go!

I noticed this as well. I let my watch charge all night and put it on promptly at 7am. It's now 8:20 am and my battery is at 88% - I checked my usage on my phone and it's at 17 mins since the last full charge.

Mine won’t do the update says it’s not connected to internet. Have tried all the tips and unpaired and rebuilt from new. Still won’t update. All my add ones for faces have gone like music etc. None of the fitness stuff is linking properly, expensive piece of useless kit. Apple need to sort this out asap

I’ve noticed it too. Before updating my AW 4, I was able to get up at 5 a.m., go for my usual 3-4 mile run before work, work 8-9 hours, get home around 4-415 and STILL have 70%+ battery/power left. Since updating to Os7, I get up at 5 a.m. & put my watch on, walk out to have a drink of water and some pick-me-up caffeine before my run, walk down stairs to put my shoes on and before I’m even out of the house the watch is down to 89% charge left. It lasted for ~ 1.12 miles before the watch went in to power saver mode. Apple and co. better get on their horse to fixing this issue or else I’ll be moving on to using a different company’s fitness watch/tracker as well as jumping ship from the iPhone train.

From personal experience, these may help

1, Remove all the apps (yes, I know, wth right?)

2, Disable the app noise

3, Reduce text size

4, Turn off haptics

5, Remove "listen for "hey siri""

Basically turn off any background functions that is not related to activity.

Thanks for the pointers, StanleyG. It sucks that users have to lose features of such an expensive product just because apple made an update that there is no way they couldn't have known how it would impact people. Even with applying the suggestions to my series 5 watch, 7:06AM wake up, sit around watching TV and drinking coffee for about an hour, run down and put a load of laundry in, 9:34AM 84%. The lawsuit apple has to pay out certainly isn't enough because they're still doing the same thing!

I had the same. Spent an hour on phone with senior technician from Apple. I had to pair my watch to my husbands iPhone and download os7. Then unpair it and repair to my iPhone. They have e me back complications and kept the upgrade and exercise stuff seems to be working now

FWIW, I updated my AW3 on release day and had a couple days of excessive battery drain, but have to say that (without doing anything) it now has close to normal battery drain. Not sure if all the pain of unpairing, re-pairing, etc., is really needed?

Hello, I also noticed the same issue - quite inconvenient as at 18:50 (Italian time) my battery is at 29%, while before the update I was able to go to bed towards midnight with the watch battery at 40%. Note that I'm not doing anything special with the watch at the moment - notifications, as usual. I also tried to cancel any app open in the background, but it does not help.

I am asking to Apple to fix this.

Thanks.

After any IOS or OS update I find that a few force restarts both your iPhone and your watch are needed.

First force restart your iPhone buy what ever method your version calls for. As soon as you see the Apple logo force restart your watch by holding in the crown and side button for 10 seconds till you see the Apple logo then release. Log into your iPhone and wait for your watch to boot, then log into it.

I am also experiencing this same issue. Upgraded to the watchOS 7 9/19/20. Watch died early while I was at work. Everyday since I am charging my watch 2-3 times a day now as the battery bleeds out quickly over the course of a few hours. Today for instance woke up and went golfing. Was at 98% at the start of my round and 2 hours in it died. This is pretty infuriating and they need to send out some bug fixes.

My wife and I have both experienced a massive increase in battery drain today, after both upgrading our S4 watches to watchOS 7 this morning :( Hoping it gets fixed in the next update.

I have the same issue with my watches series 5. In the end of the day 2% instead of usual 40-50%. Disappointed with the update.

Replied earlier with the same problem.

I unpaired my watch - then repaired and setup as a new watch while it was on the charger.

I've been holding steady at 85% for the last 45 mins.