WatchOS 7.5 battery drain

The last two nights I have charged my watch to 100% before bed (and worn while sleeping as usual) but by the time I get up the next morning I had the 10% battery life warning. Certainly not normal and it has been months since I updated to watchOS 7.5

I posted a week or so ago that immediately following the latest update battery life dropped significantly.

The last two-three days it’s gotten worse.

Now I’m getting about 15-16!hours on a full charge. This is in spite of dumping all but a few Apple APPs. I don’t use the watch for exercise. Nor am I taking an EKG everyday.

I use the watch to tell time and to monitor for falls.

this is getting out of hand.

apple watch SE gets looked at for maybe 5 mins. Battery completely drained in 7 hours. Completely impossible to make a day out of 1 charge. I used to do a day and still have 60% left at night.

is this just a OS issue?

Ridiculous! After all the complaints from user across the board, and after several “recommended solutions” users still have severe battery drain at random.

Apple has severally impacted users productivity in every way possible! Time to make them pay by buying competitor products or showing courts how they have impacted users in every realm. Ugh

Sounds like you have y watch, this all happened after the the last update, I have a watch 5 7.5 used to loose about 10% over night not 30! Apple has done this before with a previous release, just escapes me what that was.

I have now tried just about every trick I’ve read in this thread and online (notifications, mask unlock, even turning off cellular) and although the battery life is somewhat improved, its still is far worse than before the updates.

Same here but I think its more to it then just the update as for me i just suddenly happend like over night. no the watch is fully drained ( 100% to 0%) in 2-4h depending if I did an activity or not. It's crazy one day only charging it over night ( not because I had too but so I have it full for the next day) and now I can barely walk out side and its completely drained.

Interesting information. I accidentally left my phone at home today. When I left work my watch was at 74% battery. 12 hrs of my watch being separated from my phone and the battery dropped 26%. Now after 4 hrs with them together the battery has dropped 22%. Notice the change in discharge rate just before 1800. The higher discharge rate is what I have been seeing everyday.

What is the watch doing when it’s connected to the phone? I have unlock with watch disabled and anything else I can disable.

2 horrible days last week. The first one was that I took the watch off the charger at 100% and it lasted till about lunch time. I was home and so I charged it again. Took it off at 2pm at 100% again and then it died again after dinner.

2 days ago I went to 6 Flags. Really wanted to count my steps. It died not even after 6 hours. Never found out how many steps I took.

this is my second Apple Watch 6. They replaced it and still happening all the time. I’m so sick of this.

Does Apple even know or care ? Are they doing something about this ?

Not sure why others are blaming Apple Card as the culprit. UK users don’t have Apple Card and are still suffering from battery drain. That said, I haven’t done anything different recently but the issue has settled. Battery is not draining as fast.

Same issue here. Its making me crazy. Charged it until 95% at 21H00, then i wake up at 07h00 and it has only 6%.

Apple Watch 6 (Nike Version). Only one month since i`ve bought it.

The issue starting 10 days ago. Don`t know what is causing it. I`ve tried to erase to factory default, but it didnt fix it.

It *****.

Today was the first day my fairly new 6 series watch has lasted all day since the previous update. It’s only been lasting about 4 hours. Today it’s 10:30 pm and I still have 38 percent like I used to. I didn’t do a thing different. We’ll see if it repeats tomorrow…

Yes mine did an auto update. Not sure when though. I assume last week when the update came out. I was expecting a change the next day and nothing until today. Fingers are crossed it’s not going to drain tomorrow.

Didn’t help me. I’m at 33% at 6:30 pm - no workouts, no cell radio, no streaming. I’m at a loss and about to throw my hands in the air.

And Apple was no help. When I called them it said my battery was at 88% capacity. Not bad enough to fix, just have to live with disappointment.

Many of these “solutions” are not fixes. They require an Apple Watch user to disable functionality.

I have no doubt that turning features off extends battery life. But:

1) I did not experience a battery issue prior to 7.5

2) the apps and configuration on my Watch hasn’t changed for close to a year

Wake up Apple!