I updated my series 4 Apple Watch to WatchOS 7 today. I use my watch all day and usually have about 30% battery left when I go to bed and start changing. Today my phone got to 10% by 2:30 pm! Why is this drawing so quickly?
I had the same issue on my Apple Watch Series 4 after updating to iOS7. I tried shutting down background app refresh, and ensured sleep app and hand washing apps were off.
This didn't fix issue so I read on some other forums about repairing to your iPhone. So I did a reset on my watch. I restored using the same backup I just reset and today the problem seems to be gone. After a 2hour walk I have only went down 13% which is normal level. When I was running out of battery my watch was showing a 35% drop after my walk.
if restoring from the backup didn't work I was going to try setting up as new watch but obviously I didn't have to go that far.
Same problem with iwatch 5. I choose to disable always on display.
I did it and it’s working fine now. By the way I don’t work for apple. Regular user like you guys are. I did it because saw many comments from others doing unpair and repair and for them it worked.
I had this problem withy series 4 I I reinitialize it and stop all my background app it seems ok now on battery fast draining... BUT I cannot open my Macbook on Catalina anymore....
I’m so happy I have a normal battery life back on my watch!!
you have to try the up-pair / re-pair method. It totally worked for me. Instant fix!!
I also turned off hand washing, raise to speak and hey Siri.
ive been going for 15 hours and have over 50% left after 1hr workout.
Bro, stop the hand washing and see the difference. Also better to stop the noise hearing app. It will be even better
Stop the hand washing and see the difference. Also better to stop the noise hearing app. It will be even better
New update out as of yesterday! 7.0.2 hopefully this will help.
Updated my iWatch to 7.0.2 and the battery is doing much better. It lasted all night last night and after a charge this morning i am still at 90%..... so i am a happy camper! Thanks Apple!
I reported earlier that my new replacement AW5 had the same problem as the old one. Since upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2 and iOS 14.3 the problem has not recurred on 5 workouts to date.
Mine problem was the map app in the background, once closed the watch works perfectly, I also bought a Fenix 6, but I have to say that Apple Watch ⌚️ I prefer.....
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.
Me too on 4G series 4. I charge in the evening and unless I hammer it, the charge will last to the next evening, even using it to record exercise. Yesterday my battery didn’t even last till lunchtime!
I’ve seen people who beta tested say to turn of the hand washing timer in the watch settings on your phone. Mine was already turned off though, so this isn’t going to help me.
Both my wife and I have S4 Apple Watches, until WatchOS 7 we'd end each day on around 40% battery left but neither of us now get through a full day (and that's without any workouts, etc.).
Really disappointed it's so badly broken. I've seen posts on disabling the hand washing feature, but that was already disabled on both our watches. I've also seen the new Battery Health option, mine is showing 90% and my wife's 85% - but again that's pretty irrelevant as only 2 days ago back on Watch OS 6 neither of us had a problem.
Something is badly broken and a fix needs issuing urgently. Never mind sleep tracking, I can't even get through a full normal day.
Also - it's taking longer to charge than previous as well, I haven't done any scientific tests on this yet but it seems to take roughly double the time to charge (although the battery has never drained to such a low level before so maybe this is just because of that?).
Only just started the day and gone from 100% to 92% in 25 minutes.
It's broken. Badly broken.
Really disappointed as I thought the public testing that Watch OS 7 got (which I didn't try) would mean higher quality updates - but sadly some really basic errors have been made it would seem.
Please fix this Apple - or allow a rollback to a working version?
Possible solution... I say this because it worked for me... First make sure you have your watch back-up... then unpair... then pair it as you would a new watch...
At the 12hr mark I have 57% looking good (fingers crossed)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204568
watchOS 7 Battery Drain
