watchOS 7 Battery Drain

Same here on Series 4. Not willing to reset it as a new Apple Watch and lose everything I already have on it. Charged all night, started at 7am, only 1 workout for 30min, and it's 2:45pm and I'm at 27% battery after not having touched it otherwise. To someone else's comment about Handwashing Timer, mine is already off and still draining.

Incredible flop on Apple's part, hoping they fix this very soon.

I also just did a few hours ago the unpair - restore from backup and it seems better now after just 2 hours. Have not done a workout yet or turned on handwashing or sleep timer. I will not be using sleep and probably not handwashing either. I have kept the screen display set to always on, on my Series 5 watch. Seems normal right now. Thanks everyone for all the comments and help.

So I tried deleting most of the background refresh for the apps that I have on my Apple Watch. It seem to help a tiny bit. Instead of my watch dying at 2:30 in the afternoon it died at 5o’clock at night. So still not a great fix we need more apple!

same here with the 5. I did notice background app refresh was turned on (i always have it off), which is why i think when those who are restoring from backup has said the issue has been resolved. However I think its a deeper software issue, which should be fixed in an update... hoping the background app refresh is the answer today! haha

I have ecxactly same battery problem with my watch S4 ! the battery is gone in a few hours now.. I can't use it properly for exercises and other daily life activities ! I have called to apple support and they told me that don't have enough complaints about this issue in their system yet ... can't believe ! so we have to be paciente for an update to get issue solved ! If some one has some tips about it please share with us .. Thanks

I paid far too much for the watch in order to have to solve such an important issue with trial an error. Reading all the complaints on 32 pages, I can't believe that this issue didn't occur during beta test.

Are 32 pages not enough complaints to urgently provide a fix??

I was considering to replace my current S4 with the S6, but looking at the support (and the reduced incremental benefit of two generations) I think I rather move out of the Apple Ecosystem and back to a real Sports Watch.

I had the same issue so I followed the instructions here. Watch Series 4, and I had to recharge the battery up to four times a day. I unpaired without doing an erase and it re-paired easily. Great, I thought. Until I noticed it had gone from 100% to 75 in less than half an hour. So I put it on the charger. No go. Green lightning bolt and charging circle appeared for a nano second and disappeared. Even though I had the watch turned off, it was draining about 1 per cent per minute. I tried a hard reset, as advised online. Nothing. Tried erasing and re-pairing. Same no charge issue. Spent an hour on the phone with Apple and there is nothing they can do. It is going back today for repair and a likely battery change. REALLY disappointing. The battery life was never fantastic but it wasn’t draining when it was off or not being used as more than a watch. So be careful doing this as you might also end up with a useless piece of tech that needs repair. Fortunately, my AppleCare warranty will cover it. But ... I’ll be without it for up to 15 business days and there goes my fitness streak. Makes me question having it at all - it’s a lot of fuss.

Yesterday evening I did the "unpair" "re-pair" process and restored from backup. Took longer than expected, but so far today the battery seems to be draining slower. I've had it on since 7am (3 1/2 hours) and sitting at 86%. Keeping my fingers crossed my watch (series 4) lasts all day.

Same issue - why have Apple not done a fix for this. My watch is useless until it returns to normal functionality. Turning off background app refresh has not made much difference. Did a 3 hour walk today and it was totally flat by the end.

Others have reported that the new watch faces could be the culprit.

As I noted waaaay above in this thread, when I unpaired > re-paired I actually got back a bunch of watchOS 6 faces that I had added and lost when I did my last unpair > re-pair, oddly.

I love GMT and Chrono Plus but am removing them for now. By doing so, my battery drain went from 40% in 6 hours to 9% over the same period.

I too have the apple watch 4 and have been experiencing these problems. I have turned off the battery management feature and have also unpaired and repaired from a backup today. So far the drain rate has not improved. It's so discouraging to essentially have a several hundred dollar paper weight on my wrist. Exercise definitely accelerates the drain.

Hi All....so I did the unpair/pair and restored from backup (series 4). No other changes or modifications. Battery is SOOOOOO much better. I've had it on all day (~8 hours) and am at 72% battery. This is very close (maybe "better") than what I had before the upgrade. Other than my time.....there has been very minimal impact to going through the process and would encourage anyone with this problem to try that for immediate resolution. :-)

I, too, did the unpair/pair from backup on Sept. 20th and it worked for my Series 4 with regard to battery drain. Unfortunately, a new problem cropped up as a result. My AW4 is no longer recognized by System Preferences Security and Privacy pane to unlock any of my Macs after sleep or to apply my logon PW when requested by double-clicking its side button. Several others have mentioned this bad outcome as well. I tried the steps of deleting certain files provided by samrog777--no joy for the AW4 although I was able to reconnect my Original Apple Watch running OS 4.3.2. I tried re-installing 10.15.6 Supplemental Update and no joy--AW4 doesn't work but AW0 does. What a pain!

After unpairing/pairing trick, the issue still persists. Still getting battery to 30% after 9 hours of wearing, not to include my 1 hour daily workout/exercise. I hope this gets fixed soon! Really annoying.