watchOS 7 Battery Drain

Anyone else having major problems trying to install 7.0.2?

I keep getting an error sayin I’m not connected to the internet but I am. Tried all sorts, unpaired watch several times, reset iPhone network, reset router and still no dice. It downloads in about 2mins, gets 50% through preparing and then quits with the message below.

Ive tried updating from the watch, same thing.......

Here's my experience as previously noted. The first graph shows average battery readings by time of day before 7.0 (blue), after 7.0 (red), after unpairing and pairing again (orange), after updating to 7.0.1 (green) and after 7.0.2. The second graph is a screen shot last night after the third day on v.7.0.2. I'm getting slightly better performance under v.7.0.2 but YMMV....

This is still happening to me after all the troubleshooting steps. Called Apple and worked with an engineer who wasn’t much help either. Battery usage at 88% of its full charge on my Series 4 from a little under two years ago. Before the update to iOS7, I would go on an hour run playing music from data and still have over 80%. After updating, it dies when I’m 3/4 of the way home.

I upgraded again to 7.0.2 just to see if that would fix it. It didn’t. Also, when restoring from backup after unpairing, I get this message:

Why is Apple taking so long to fix this? How was this a defect (among all the others occurring) that wasn’t caught before release? So disappointed. I want to throw this stupid watch off a cliff. The battery would probably die on the way down.

The watch is unreliable. See attached screenshot. No drainage all day and then when some activity the watch draining like heck. Sometimes is good working and sometime not. Should I carry charger and cable with me to have a working watch?

Yes, it is something very strange. See attached screenshots. How is it possible that the battery drops so fast? I was having activities, first drop here 1 hour swimming and the battery is down to 30% or and then after recharging up to 65% it drops again within 1 hour down to 15%.

Yeah, this watch is only usable by switching off all apps. Maybe we should turn the watch off at all, then the battery keeps alive for 24 hours? After only 1 hour swimming the battery dropped down rapidly, looks like the activity app is sucking now a lot? But that's what the watch is for, monitoring activities. It was never happen before that drop af capacity due to activities. I'm soon changing to other manufacturer, its not to have more precise results but reliability

Its a tragedy with the devices, I figured out during the recent days that the activities are responsible for draining the battery much more than ever before. I used the acivities about 250 to 300 min everyday, at midnight it was still at 8 to 15%, now after 1,5 hours activities it dropped from nearly 100% to 40% and I have to recharge in the middle of the day. Never happen before.

I have a lucky day today. After more than 12 hours and exercising (2 hours swimming, 1,5 hours walking) a lot, I have still 27% remaining. I did not change anything in settings because I have no idea what I could try out more there. Tomorrow I will have same sequence and see what will be the result in the evening same time.

The last update for my AW4.

It is gone after 20 months in operation.

Last night, before to go to bed, I tapped on the screen to check the battery and felt something unusual.

Soon I realized that the screen was detached from the watch.

It looks that the battery finally started to perform better.

The battery health is done by 1% (from 91 to 90) in a last month, after the problem has appeared.

I assume that the screen detaching is caused by over internal pressure, caused by battery, caused by too many frequent charges in the last month.

Well done Apple!

I updated my Apple Watch 4 to 7.1 this week and since I did that it has been losing25% battery every two hours. Absolutely ridiculous!

I’ve always worn it from about 6:30am until 10pm, and it was would always have around 30% left. Since the update I now have to recharge it in the afternoon. Sort it out Apple!!!

This photo was taken after wearing the watch for just over 2 hours and not using it for anything other than to check the time.

Background app updates are switched off.

I don't know what to say. After 12 hours and 3000 cal activities, 2 hours swimming, 1,5 hours jogging, my battery is on 46%. I can't believe that. Usually I would expect the outcry from my watch to go into battery saving mode, here I have capacity left for next 12 hours???? AW 4

I was having the battery draining problem with Series 5 Apple Watch so I bought the Series 6 Apple Watch and its having the same issue. I’m frustrated BEYOND believe. A fully charged watch goes down to 10% in about 3 hours. What’s going on??? What’s the use of upgrading the software when it just stalls your watch!!!!!!! DO SOMETHING Apple‼️

Same here unfortunately - Series 4. Never used to drop below 45% before the end of the day, but yesterday it was on 17% by 5pm, then died around 10pm.

Maybe I'm washing my hands too much! :)

Will try unpairing and pairing again later on this evening and report back.

I have a Cellular Series 3 Apple Watch. Since updating the OS to watch OS7 my battery life has fallen from a reasonable 18 hours a day to an unfortunate 12 hours for the last two days (I run or walk for at least an hour each day). I'm hoping this drain a bedding-in thing (indexing ... whatever) or something that a soon to come supplemental update will fix.

I have the same problem. I have a series 4 and a charge used to last me the whole day (usually around 17 hours). Since installing Watch OS 7 yesterday day, I'm having to charge twice a day. I tried switching off the heart monitoring (low, high or irregular beats), but that didn't help. I've unpaired and re-paired (restored backup) my watch to my iPhone and I'm going to see how it goes now.