watchOS 7 Battery Drain

Sounds like some people believe the excessive battery drain is tied to handwashing reminders. Maybe it's constantly turning on the GPS. I'm going to toggle mine off and see if the atrocious battery life improves.

https://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-fix-watchos-7-battery-life-drain-on-your-apple-watch/

The battery issue, pertaining to Apple Watches which have recently updated to OS7, has been escalated to Apple; so they are aware of the many cases of people having issues.

If you were to bug a brand new Watch, series 6 or SE, it would have OS7 pre-installed and been extensively tested.

As previously said, following an OS update, there are many background processes which need to be run, and these may have a temporary adverse reaction on expected battery life.

The actions I have been presented with, so far, are to wait a day or two, and see if it improves.

I saw on another thread from someone who tested the beta and they said turning off the hand washing timer helped. I’m going to give that a try and hope they fix it in an update soon. It’s disappointing that the problem existed with the beta and they didn’t fix it at that time.

Every time I workout I’m at half battery life at the end and I’m having to charge twice a day. I’ll keep singing my **** hand washing song for now. 😂

I’ve done a bit to resolve this to no end. After upgrading to 7 I’ve had huge battery drain on my watch the same as everyone else.

So far turned off all the usual suspects:

• background updates
• wash hands app
• location services for some apps such as weather and clock

What I have noticed is that overnight it barely discharge compared to during the day.

A normal day for me is the following:

• charge to 100% each night before bed
• start sleep app when I turn the light out
• put into airplane mode
• when I wake up battery is about 85%
• turn off airplane mode and sleep app
• lose 7-8% battery per hour. 4 hrs after I woke up this morning and it’s now 54%

It seems the only thing I can do if I want a decent day of life is to put into airplane mode for most of the day and turn it off when I do a workout.

i chatted with someone on the Apple

Support app. He said we need to bombard Apple Support with this issue to get a fix issued immediately. Without this might not get their attention. Here are steps:

1. Download the Apple Support (not Apple

Store) iOS app

2. Select your Apple Watch.

3. Click on Battery

4. Request a chat

5. iMessage window opens immediately with Apple support. In the chat explain precisely what happened and demand a fix.

I'm having this issue as well; having to charge 2x per day at minimum. One thing that I've noted is that the location services indicator is on virtually all the time (swipe up on Watch. solid purple arrow is present upper right above WiFi button) I'm not working out or even moving much and something is constantly hitting loc services. i can ;literally watch the power %age drop.

Series 4 Nike. no [power drain issues noted prior to update to OS7. Battery health is rated at 100% by the Watch app. Not sure how long that'll hold up with this constant charging requirement.

I have carried out the unpair & pair fix and thus far it seems okay. However, as many other posts have indicated it is a jolly poor show by Apple. I feel as if they are trying to surreptitiously dip their hand into my wallet in an attempt to force an upgrade. Well - there are other alternatives to Apple and I will not hesitate taking my patronage elsewhere.

I was having the same issue with my Series 5. An apple agent (via Twitter) said it is normal for a few days after an update for the battery to drain faster. Its been about 5 days and I THINK my battery is doing better. I've been wearing it for 7 hours and at 68%. fingers crossed!

Series 5 WatchOS 7.0.1

Battery drain issues seem better with pairing and unpairing.

It was almost unusable with about 8% drain every hour before the pair-unpair process...

But battery still doesn't last as long as WatchOS 6

I had this battery drain problem and it was driving me nuts. I tried many fixes without any luck. Then watchOS 7.01 came out. After installing it, my battery is back to completely like it used to be. THANK YOU APPLE!

Thanks Dgraugh. This was first posted here by Gerard Leeb. I also reposted it as it worked for me but I also had to toggle Bluetooth off and on. Then it just stopped working after awhile. I may go through the steps again or just wait for Apple since the critical part was getting the battery performance back to normal which it has been since September 20th with the Unpair/Pair procedure from a Backup.

Steviejones133 you have more patience than I. Your watch appears to be "stuck" so I would have long ago shut down my watch, also an S4, by holding down the side button and then turned it back on again to see if it finishes booting. Depending on what was actually done to "reset" it, you may need to pair it again to your iPhone once it completes booting.

I was having issues with my randomly shutting down when it though it was out of battery when I was using it for running and using the Strava app on the watch. I bought a Garmin Forerunner 935 and gave up on the Apple watch for running. There is one park I run in that is the death zone for the Apple watch with Strava. It dies before even 3 miles. So this week I went to this park for a run and my Garmin watch died (my fault for not charging it). I tried using the Activity/running app on the Apple watch and no problems. So maybe my problem all along was a bug in the Strava app. I am going to keep using the Activity app and see if it is reliable.

I confirm: unpairing the Watch solved my battery problem

I paired my Apple Watch 4 again and it seems now a bit better. Only 2% per hour so far. Fingers crossed.