Apple Watch 6 battery draining in Watch OS 7.6.2

I'll add my voice to the conversation. I've noticed battery issues for a while (maybe 2-3 months?). My battery health is just over 90%, but it seems like I have to charge it a few times a day for continued use. Upgrading to WatchOS 8 didn't help.

Today I completely reset the watch and re-paired it to my iPhone. I have fewer apps installed, but still noticing that with almost no use the battery went from 100% to 90% in less than an hour. Perhaps it will settle down after a few hours of being setup again, but I'm thinking the battery will need replacing after just 13 months of use. Not good.

Hi if you don’t do anything at all it fixes itself in 3 to 4 days.

My apple watch series 6 has the latest update which is 7.6.1. My battery doesn't even last the whole day like it used to and it dies faster than ever. I had no issues with my battery before this update and how can I improve my battery life? Please help and let me know what I can do. Thank you!

My wife and I are both having the same problem, series 5 and series 6. Not sure when they upped it over today we both have the 10% battery remaining around the same time only about 12 hours since the watch was fully charged. Each with a 1.5 hour work out otherwise no excess of use.

Same issue here. Apple Watch 6. Upgraded to 7.6.1 from 7.5 about a week ago. Went to Apple Store and they had me unpair, set up as new watch. That did nothing other than lose all my data.

Tried to tell me it was one of the apps that was corrupted or something. He basically shrugged his shoulders when I said 8 hours for my watch that lasted 18 last week was unacceptable.

I agree, Apple needs to address or they need to provide a method of downgrading software when these things happen

The problem is that not all the watches are affected, I think for that apple do not release a fast update. For example I have a AW 4 gps with the last 7.6.1 and iphone xs max with 14.7.1 and I have a terrible battey drain on my watch. My wife has the same iphone and a AW -se, the software is the same but she do not have any battery drain issue..... it is very strange!!!

Sorry but for my watch the update of 7.6.2 did not fix the issue, now I updated the watch twoday ago with also an initializing of it, but the problem of the excessive draining battery remain the same. Yesterday I had a chat with the support of apple (with the app support) they checked my watch via remote and they told me that the battery is ok and it did not have also problem related to the software. The support gave me an appointment for today at the apple store near my house to verify the watch, sincerely I hope that it will be replaced under warranty for unknown problem of excessive battery drain.......

I have AW 4-44mm only gps with iphone XS max

P.S.: In the past I tried to: erase the watch many times, pair/unpair the watch, formatting also iphone.... nothing help!!!

What I’ve learned is that the update did fix the battery draining issue for my Series 3 GPS. I turned off WI-FI off and notice that the battery is holding steady. Also, once you update your watch with this new update, turn off your watch and wait a few minutes and turn it back on and it should take care of this problem.

After the software update( most recent), I have unpaired my watch and also powered it off and back on… Unfortunately, same issue my battery is still draining real fast. Within two hours, I removed it from the charger to step out the house and came back home within that time period and found the battery percentage was down to 66%. This is so disappointing that after all Apple does nothing to fix these issues. I continue to hope they will attempt to correct this issue and make us Apple users happy. I hold firm on my decision to not replace my watch for a new one because I’ve had my series 3 for over a year and still in excellent condition.

The issue started with watchOS 7.5 and they never fixed it as they did with watchOS 7.4 if I’m not wrong. Not sure about the version but it definitely happened before, and fixed with an update. I’m sorry you are spending 95 $ for nothing. People even got their watches replaced by new ones under warranty, just to have the same problem

I was advised I could get the battery replaced regardless if my battery life span was at 100%( battery is in good standing) and pay the fee but it won’t guarantee that it would fix the issue of the battery draining. This was told to me at the Apple store when went in for an appointment with the genius and also took it to the Geek Squad at Best Buy for a second opinion.

please do let us know how that turned out, Good luck!

it seems that this is a planned obsolescence, I have an AW 4-44mm GPS and my problems of battery draining started from watch OS 7.6

Now I updated to OS8, I did a full reset as new watch, as also the iphone I use (updated to IOS 15) but the problem is still the same, the life of my battery is about 10 hours without do anything, I see the hour just few time in the morning and the dispaly is always off.

I was in an apple store for a check but the operators told me that the battery has no problem, it has 86% of quality life and the watch did not have problem related to the software, but the life of it now is about 10 hours, it is very incredible!! The watch has 2 years and half, not so old.

It is not soo good to spend 470€ and after two years the watch is unusable, APPLE please.......

Mine was doing the same and I didn’t do anything with it, I thought I would wait a few days to see if it fixed itself and it did after 4 days cheers

I have noticed that the software is also trying to optimize the battery life. It lasts a little longer each day. in the beginning cask lasted 5-7 hours. Now 13-14. I hope to go back in 1-1.5 days.

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

WatchOS 7.5 battery drain - 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. (Simply unpairing and pairing again may not work.)

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Also, some people have found that simply waiting a few days after an update resolves the battery draining problem.