I installed WatchOS 8 on my Apple Watch Series 6 on Monday night. The battery is draining super quick now. For example in drained 20% while going out to dinner and back over 1.5 hours.
Apple Watch Series 6, watchOS 8
Have resolved the issue with Apple support .
Backed up the phone via iTunes > recovered the phone to factory default (while phone connected to iTunes ,volume up then volume down then long press on shutdown till cable connected an pc was shown > select recovery and follow the process ) > restore from iTunes backup > pair the watch again .
Just google watchos 8 battery drain and it will pour results from everywhere.
This is really shameful on apple to not fix this issue that’s been around for months.
Can you write this several settings?
thank you
You mean the step tracker? I’ve disabled that and it doesn’t seem to do anything for containing the battery drain.
Yes, I could not agree more. WatchOS 8.3 was a terrible update with poor battery performance. I wish I could switch to earler version at once if possible.
I am also having the same problem as well. It started just after I updated to watchOS 8.3 , and now I can have a full charge and in just a few hours it completely dead.
My Apple Watch doesn't hold a charge very long
I’ve recently noticed this exact same behavior after the latest update. My battery drains a lot faster. My watch use to last over a day and now it’s about 10 hours and it’s almost dead.
My watch series 3 is now draining after os8 update, too! I’m suddenly only getting 10 hours of daily battery life with a battery health of 85%. I’ve done unpair repair and restored from backup with no improvement. I also noticed every possible watch app was installed on my watch (about 50 apps) and i’ve never installed all those. These installs either occurred automatically during updates or when I got my new iphone 12. So I uninstalled all but 7 watch apps. With background refresh on, I was sure this was the culprit to draining battery. However, nothing has improved this brand new battery drain issue. This is an OS issue that needs fixed.
For me, I think email and messages stored on the watch were the culprit. I was out of storage and pictures in text messages and spam email constantly pushed to the watch were causing the battery drain.
Ok I see. Yeah I turned that off and nothing. Turned the step tracker off and nothing. Again, all of these features are turned on with my Series 3 LTE watch and it’s not draining. So idk if it’s only with the GPS model watches or if it’s because I wear the LTE watch on the weekends and on my days off and it’s really not being used like the GPS is as I wear that to work on the weekdays??
The unpair and repair solved it for me.
When water mode is on it seems to help that battery doesn’t drain so fast.
Hopefully, yesterday's update will have fixed this for those who still had the problem.
Wich update? I’m in Europe.
Did you got an update?
it’s beta?
I think they are referring to update 8.01. Everyone is useless hoping...
Battery drain in WatchOS 8 on Apple Watch 6
