Apple Watch Battery Drain and WatchOS 7.5

If the battery drains too fast after an update, see all the replies to:

Update 6.2.1 Battery Draining Too Quickly… - Apple Community

Battery Drain since watchos 7.4 - Apple Community

FWIW, in some cases, unpairing the watch, completely erasing it, then pairing and restoring the backup will resolve the battery draining issue after an update. Also, some people have found that simply waiting a few days after an update resolves the battery draining problem.

I agree it is very ridiculous. I spent time on the phone with Apple Support on Friday and they had no idea or really believed it had to do with the update. I told them just look at your community support. So far this is what has helped me. I tried the unpairing and repairing, it helped for a day maybe then back to the same old drain. I have since stopped using the bedtime app, that seems to drain it big time over night and I removed all non apple watch standard apps. I also make sure all apps are closed on not sitting in the dock. Apple wants me to send my watch in for diagnostics, it is obviously the update not the battery. There is no way everyone all of a sudden has bad batteries in their watches. I am thinking about sending mine in so they can see it is NOT my battery.

Going through this now. June 17th exercised in morning for 1 1/2 hours GPS and music. 2:00 PM, afternoon, I was getting low battery warning. Had to put it on a charger for awhile. Normally by around 10:00pm I would be around 20% or a little less. The last few weeks I have been in the red, below 10%. Something with this last update is causing a battery drain. Setting it up as new did not help. Hoping the next update will fix this.

I am also having the same issue starting a week ago on my Apple Watch 4. Normally the battery lets all day. I charge it to 100% at night and wear them for the sleep app overnight. Then wear them all day. The battery was lasting that long. However starting last week, it would drain in the morning itself. I reset the wAtch and restored from backup and it did not get fixed. Figuring it might have been something in the backup, I set it up as a new watch and it fixed itself. Or so I thought. This morning it is at 10% and it was at 100% 5 hours ago when I put it on before going to sleep. Yikes.

My fiance and I also have this problem... We both have Series 4.. Battery issues started for both of us around the same time maybe a month ago? I've unpaired twice, no luck. I even went as far as wiping my phone and watch together, set both up as new (no backup)... The issue persists. Super annoying that I have to bring a watch charger to work with me now.

They surely are aware of this issue since it already happened with past updates. What is frustating is that they take too long time to fix it with a new update and even more frustating that the support only reply that with pre-filled answers and/or point to an hardware issue, while is obvious that when so many people suddendly have the same issue it cannot be an hardware issue!

Mine is going the same thing. I’ve followed the recommendations on this thread as well as other links. It’s still dying so fast all of a sudden after my last software update. I now have to charge it about 6-7 times a day which defeats the purpose of trying to track fitness goals.

FWIW - I have a 2 month old Apple watch 6 - this just started happening the last 2 days. I did a hard reset (hold the crown and the side button) and it fixed my problem. Easiest solution of most listed here so it's worth a try if nothing else is working for everyone.

if you can, try pairing the watch with a different iphone. The battery will most likely last longer. The problem is possibly in the iphone, not the watch. Which would also explain why apple are incapable of fixing it by adjusting the watch firmware.

My 6 has been find since I reset. But randomly my 3 sat unused on Saturday and was 100% dead after less than 24 hours (it is not cellular and didn't have any apps running). It's just random...very weird...

My iWatch 5 is doing it also. Lasts maybe an hour after fully charging. I tried a different charger and also unpaired the watch and re-paired and it didn’t make a difference. So now I have an iWatch 5 that’s a paperweight. Thank you Apple!