Battery Drain since watchos 7.4

for me 7.4.1 hasn't change. I am well beyond 48 hours mark and still drains very quickly. full at 10pm but down to 20% when i wake up from sleep at 7am. it would normally only drop 10-15% in that time.

This update is horrible!

Two weeks ago, when I talked to the support, the result of their diagnostics was battery health of 98% (after 1 year still pretty good). Last sunday, when I checked it again, I was more than surprised, because now the health status is just 91%. 7% in less than a week. I really can‘t imagine, that this is normal… But I‘m sure that this Update is going to kill my S3 from inside out.

Sadly my warranty ran out in February 21 and I missed it to get Apple Care for my watch, so I won‘t get a replacement.

Next time I‘ll don‘t do updates before doing Research about the update…

This is so annoying and time consuming 😑

I’m having the same issue with my Series 6. I’ve reset, unpaired and re-paired, follow steps in troubleshooting docs, nothing has helped. I go from 100% to 0 in 6-10 hours and often the most usage is when I’m sitting at my desk not using the watch at all. I’ve contacted Apple support multiple times and they say everything is normal. This all started with the update to 7.4 and there was no improvement with 7.4.1.

Yes suddenly during the day the battery is running out of juice

I have never experience this before with my Apple Watch 3 you should think tha a new watch is a improvement

i adjust the screen to always of and stil he is bugging me with the drain experience

They did give me a new watch and it worked for several weeks. Now the same intermittent issue exists. This morning I have had it on for two hours and its still at 100%; some days after two hours is down to 50%. Apple refuses to admit they have an issue.

Are you running the beta software of the regular ios version??

YES!!!!! I have tried everything I have read online and it does not work. Mine will be at zero by 4:00 p.m. each day.

after another week. Battery drains 70% in sleep mode and basically no activity would drain 60-70% in 5 hrs sitting at my desk. Need to charge watch 3 times a day

Hi Hornet9988

I don’t use the ability to unlock my phone with a mask. In my case, it’s really the wifi that cause the problem.

Im Installing now watchos7.5, hope it helps.

I use mine while running and it won’t even make it through a 45 minute run before dying…. First thing in the morning on a 100% charge when I start. Didn’t have this problem until a few days ago.

In fact idk y a watch needs security updates but anyway. My series 6 is on watchOS 7.4 and it was at 62% before sleep last night. Juz picked it up and it dropped to a low of 28% but I didn’t use it overnight…

I’m tired of seeing this cycle happening again and again every other update. Apple could u please improve the quality of your updates. It takes me forever to ponder before updating.

When you say deactivate wifi, you mean put on airplane mode? In Airplane mode i'm still getting my updates from the phone via BT so I guess that's turning off wifi. I started to try that this morning. Hoping that might help. If you have another option to disable wifi only, please share the steps

Will keep you all posted with airplane mode.

I don’t use this feature, too (iPhone SE 2020). I also turned off WiFi, but this didn’t fix the Problem. Battery of my S3 is still draining fast 100-0% in 13 hrs (before updating to 7.3/7.4/7.4.1 the battery made it up to 48hrs and more. Also the battery health decreased in 1 week from 98% to 91%. It lost 2% in a year, now 7% in a week… this can’t meant to be normal. Still waiting for apple support (Germany) calling back.

full at 6.01 a.m.

empty at 8.28 p.m.

I am also encountering the same issue with my series 4 watch. I think it started after the last update. Battery would last all day prior to that, would still have about 40% at bedtime. Now by 5-6 PM it is already on reserve. I hope they fix this with another software update.