watchOS 7 Battery Drain
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?
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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?
Even worse. Starting the day with 95% battery it went down on a so far lazy day to 50% at 3pm. I then went bicyling and tracked the sport. At 5 pm the battery was empty and the watch turned off. I never had anything even close like that. Normally I get easily through one day + night even tracking several ours of sports.
This happened after upgrading my series 5 to watch OS 7. I turned of the sleeping and handwashing feature and hope this will help
First day of WatchOS 7 was fine (44mm Apple Watch Series 5), but last night & today have been a nightmare. My watch was at full charge when I put it on for bed. When I woke up, it was flat. (Was using the new sleep function which I thought turned off the always on display & used a low power watch face). I charged it up fully at about 9:30 AM, then by 6PM I was at 10%. I can't remember doing anything that taxing on the watch.
Hi All
just to confirm, I did the unpair and repair as new yesterday afternoon.
This morning, I have had my watch on for 4 hours and complete an hour outside walk. I have only used 13% battery, so all looks good.
Watch 5 no cellular, same issue here. The first time happened right after updating to WatchOS 7. Fully charged before sleep with tracking. The next morning woke up with a dead watch. Then a day later, 70% battery around noon but went dead by 5 pm with almost no active use.
I also tried unpairing and then pairing back up but unfortunately doesn’t seem to to solve the issue for me. I’m on cellular series 4 with an iPhone 11 Pro Max. Battery has lost almost 20% in 2 hours 😫😫😫
will keep looking and update
Same problem here. I've udpated my series 4 Apple Watch to WatchOS7. Since then, the battery usage is a nightmare! Today the battery level dropped by 45% in about 5 hours (8 a.m - 1 p.m.) Too bad we can't get back to watchOS 6...
The battery on my Apple Watch 5 is draining like crazy after updating to watchOS 7. Before I updated I would typically log a 2 hour workout in and wear it for about 14 hours and still have better than 30% of the battery remaining. After updating and doing the same routine I was shocked to get a low battery notification - about 8 % remaining. I’ve read all the posts in this discussion group and I hope Apple does too. This is obviously a software issue that needs immediate attention. I turned off the Background App Refresh toggle to see if it helps slow down the battery drain until Apple addresses the issue. I’ll post the results of my little trial.
I read somewhere else to disconnect and reconnect the watch from the phone, which you do from the watch settings>bluetooth by toggling Bluetooth off and on. I just did that. I’ll know if is helped in a couple of hours.
Same issie here. Series 5 losing 10-12% battery per hour. Deleted Walkietalkie, disabled sound recognition and handwash recognition. No changes. Disabled Wifi, bc I recognised the Watch connected to my router. No changes.
An Update : after multiple restarts I decided to impair and re-pair . There was no change yesterday but today after a full charge seems much better: I am now around 3% per hour (before was 7 to 10%)
fingers crossed!
note: I re-paired from backup (as existing watch)
I deleted the pairing and set it up again. That produced no change. I then powered off the iPhone, powered off the Watch, waited a little while then powered on the iPhone, waited until it was fully booted and tHen powered on the watch. That did not seem to improve things. I then did the same again, powered off the iPhone followed by powering off the Watch but then left the Watch off whilst I paired my original series 0 with the iPhone as it had been in a drawer for a long time unused. Sadly there is no update to the IOS for series 0. My thinking was that if I go out for a walk I can at least use the series 0 if power goes down on the series 4. It took quite some time to configure the series 0, ages, clearly things have improved since then. Once done I then powered up the series 4 again. It now seems to be Ok. battery power does not seem to be dropping like it did. Perhaps there is merit in leaving it off for a long time before switching on and letting it connect with the iPhone.
I’ve got a Series 5 and experienced exactly this issue after the watchOS upgrade. Unpairing the watch, setting it up as new and then letting it charge up to 100% seems to have resolved the issue for me
I have the same type of experience with my series 4 Appel Watch and WatchOS 7. Turned of the background app activity but my normal watch face has a lot of complications and thus still drain the battery. If I use a watch face with no complication then the battery will not drain.
I am facing the same issue. Updated my Series 5 cellular Apple Watch to watchOS 7 2 days ago and I need to recharge my watch in the evening. The previous watchOS 6 would allow me to exercise 45-60 min, mirrored my iPhone notifications and it would still be left with 30% battery or sometimes even more when I went to bed. Is Apple gonna fix this? I guess many users need help on this.
Same problem here. Watch 5 44mm stainless cellular (not used), updated Sept 17. No apparent significant improvement with background notifications turned off, always-on turned off, reducing brightness and hand-washing timer turned off (loosing approx 8% per hr, even w/o activity).
I would prefer to revert to 6.1.1 to make watch useable again and also reduce unnecessary battery wear.
watchOS 7 Battery Drain