watchOS 7 Battery Drain

Same here! Before watchOS 7 I could get around 30+ hours of battery life with light use on my Series 4. But now, my battery is draining at about 10% an hour!

And that's with hand-washing turned off, Hey Siri turned off, and with Wake Screen on Crown Up only. Evidently, there are plenty of us with the same issue.

I hope Apple fixes this bug soon.

Same issue here. Updated yesterday morning and had to charge in the afternoon. Had a full charge before going to bed, awoke to 60%, back on the charger. Had a full charge again at 7:00 AM and went for a short 3 mile run, down to a 40% charge by noon. This is on a series 5 with LTE. Doing a long run tomorrow, I bet it doesn't make it....

I turned off the ones I don’t use and it didn’t help. My battery is at 50% and I haven’t done anything from my regular routine. My battery would last until 11pm and still only be at 40-50% so I hope this fix this quickly

I also updated to the latest Watch OS and the battery life is terrible. I have been wearing the watch for less than 7 hours and it just informed me that I have 10% battery life remaining. I have a series 5 watch that is about 1 year old.

Same here. Been getting though days for years with enough battery juice to last a full day and a half, even after running 4 miles. Since updating to WatchOS 7 on the Watch 5 battery life is so bad to make the watch nearly unusable. Yesterday I got 10 hours before the watch went into power save mode. Today I'm six hours in and already down to 50%. Doesn't apple test these things??

I have noticed excessive battery drain on both iPhone 8 after moving to iOS 14 and Watch 3 after installing 7. However when I turned on power save mode on the phone, effectively killing background tasks (and I normally only allow selected apps to have this privilege) the drain on both devices returned to more acceptable levels - even whilst doing a workout, the watch stopped losing power rapidly as did the phone.

As a workaround you may choose to try this and see if helps, if so this is pointing to errant background tasks / data transfer issues, which will either 'settle' or require an update. There is a separate issue with outdoor workouts not syncing / reading map data and as one of the larger databases on the phone is the health app, maybe this is cause of the issue.

I also have this issue. I have the Apple Watch Series 4 Nike edition and previously I would only charge it the night before, and when the day ended I would still have 20% to 30%. Since I’ve updated I found myself charging it 3 to 4 times throughout the day, it’s so frustrating.

After installing watchos7, the apple watch charges the battery very slowly. it helps to restart the device but it was not like that before, maybe it has to do with the battery widget on the phone? anyone has such a problem?

I had the same issue and I think in this update Apple introduce the battery health feature for the first time on Apple Watch. On your watch when you go to settings > battery > battery health - you can see your maximum capacity and there is an option for optimize battery charging. I have found it helps with the charging time when you turn it off, since it charges normaly to 80% and then slowly to 100%.

Same here, nothing new to report.

I'm on a Series 4. Since updating to WatchOS7, I've been consistently losing 7-10% of battery per hour. Disabled hand washing. Disabled sleep. Nothing is working. My battery capacity is 96%.

Very disappointed. I went from ending my days at around 40%, to needing to charge my watch mid-day. It's pretty clear this is not an isolated incident. I'm not sure how this passed QA.

Please help us, Apple.

Like everyone else, I’m on a series 4 and the battery drain on watchOS 7 has been ridiculous. Within 15 minutes the battery will suffer anywhere between a 10-14% drop. This is not an isolated incident and is an obvious issue judging from the number of posts here.

Normalerweise hält die Apple Watch Serie vier problemlos einen Tag durch. Mit Watch OS7 war heute bereits nach dem Schlafen 30 % weg und am Abend war sie leer. Das ist ganz schön schlecht und indiskutabel.

Same problem here, Series 5. I’ve never had this issue after an update before. Usually I can at least make it through the day after an overnight charge. I updated yesterday, today I was down to 15% by 11am. I hope this issue will work itself out, because this is unacceptable.

Same here. Series 4 running WatchOS 7. Depending on my workout, used to end the day at 50-60%. Since installing WatchOS 7, I am ending around 20-30%. The first day it actually went into power reserve which has never happened before.

I unpaired the watch and reset. Doesn't look like it solved anything.

I have series 5 GPS + cellular version. As soon as I updated to watchOS 7 the battery started to drain very quickly. Previously I had about 30-40% battery left and the end of day. It now drains fully in the same time interval. How could this have passed QA? Very annoying!