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WatchOS 8.4.2 battery drain

Just updated to latest watchOS last night on my series 6. Went to bed with 50% battery life. Woke up with 14%. Charged again to 50% and now in an hour watch is down to 47% and I haven’t used it for anything. This is not normal.


I don’t have cellular hooked up. And it’s always near my phone or good Wi-Fi signal. Something happened with this update. It was fine before the update.

Apple Watch Series 6, watchOS 8

Posted on Feb 11, 2022 4:33 AM

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Posted on Feb 11, 2022 7:13 AM

I'm experiencing the complete opposite since 8.4.2 was released yesterday. I've had my watch on my wrist now over 2 hours and while I've not really done much on my watch, except read a couple text messages, I'm still at 100%. Prior to this newest update, I would have typically lost about 7%, which wasn't excessive to begin with, but I'm seeing better battery life thus far.


I would recommend unpairing the watch from your iPhone and setting it up again. That can often fix something which could have gone awry in an update.

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WatchOS 8.4.2 battery drain

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