Battery drain in WatchOS 8 on Apple Watch 6

Mine’s on watchOS 8.3 and the drain is still there. I finished the day with 66% from that charge from 10am which is more than the usual for a proper full day (waking up and putting the watch ca. 7am).

So no, it’s not fixed with 8.3.

But it was a slight improvement compared to yesterday. Let’s see how it performs tomorrow.

I’m definitely not confident in reaching the end of a sedentary day with the watch battery at 63%. Not with a 1-month old series 7. And I had to turn off several settings that were never an issue with the battery in all watches I had since the 1: generation.

Not the step tracker alone (which, by the way, is something I always had on since 2015 and if I also turn that off, you can add to the list I started to mention above). The entire workout tracking (that makes up the lime green middle ring of the 3 activity rings by measuring, yes, steps among other things). It bizarrely goes full circle multiple times a day when the calories ring don’t follow that. Yes, I became a lot lazier in 2021. I still keep the goals under control. But even when I had a very disciplined daily workout routine, the rings followed what was expected and the battery never drained like this. The fact the red ring behaves as expected when the green doesn’t is a sign something is not quit right . I can only speculate that I need to recalibrate everything by going out more and doing more activities.

I’m not sure what happened. It’s been roughly a week, and the battery has been performing as it should be. I get about 1-3% drain per hour. Most importantly, I don’t need to bring the charger to the office. Only difference I can recall is I took it out from the plastic case I used. I don’t see how that relates though, so it must be a behind-the-scenes software update. Initially, when I updated 8.3, there still was battery drain on and off.

Hey Apple this really isnt good enough. This is expensive kit and Apple really need to check updates before realeasing them. I have reverted to a previous IOS. I'll leave it until this update is more robust.

This is getting old: as a consumer, I’m not buying a new watch every year, so I have an Apple series 6, and it didn’t take a ton of analysis to notice the recent updates seemed to knock about 1/3 off my battery life.

I have Apple Care, and don’t want some genius telling me how to unpair and erase / restore data. I want it fixed for me, while I play golf or do other “not IT” work. IT was my career, I’m retired.

OK, I have a MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and an iPhone 13 waiting for me to decide if I want to purchase Apple Care. Does anyone here feel like Apples premiere “protection” program should “just handle this” and ship my watch back when my battery life returns ?

What ever happened to customer care ? I’m hooked on tech, but not if I have to fix everything Apple cripples. Maybe a Timex and a Flip Phone ?

I purchased Apple Watch 6 SE on 1st March 2021. Battery is draining very fast. Os 8.5 updated. I unpaired the watch and paired it again but no improvement seen. Battery Health shows 91%.

Within 12 hours it comes 100% to 0 %.

Now have done what advised suggested by other such as stopping background apps refresh etc. users but nothing positive.

Please suggest what should I do ?

As per your suggestion I unpaired and paired again but issue is same . No improvement.

It's surprising that my watch is getting charged quickly as well. Quick charge and quick discharge.

After full charge it takes around 10 hours to become dead.

Please advice if any suggestion.

After 8.6 update my Apple Watch 6 is draining 90% of charge over 7 hours of sleep! With me NOT using any apps and on theater mode.

come on Apple, fix is asap! I can’t be buying new watches and iPhones every year!

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Re-pairing doesn't work for me. I try with erase

all same here but restore did not help

It’s completely resolved issues for me. And I’m also getting much improved battery life over WatchOS7. Fantastic!

Yes sounds like it’s the workout. Hopefully they get enough reports to put out a fix.

Same problem for me...my series 6 had excellent battery life before os8 and now it's draining much faster. Please address this, Apple.