I have the AW Series 5. During my runs, I would stream music and track my workout and the battery would drain about 12% an hour. After upgrading to WatchOS 9, my battery is draining 20-25% an hour now. Is this a known issue? Anyone else experiencing this?
Apple Watch Series 5
I can confirm now, I disabled cellular on my watch and have given it over a week to test. Disabling cellular resolved the battery drain and high temperature issues on my watch. Hopefully Apple is quick to fix the issue with cellular, having cellular capabilities was a large part of why I decided to buy my Apple Watch.
Try disabling cellular, disabling cellular has corrected the issue for me so far (have had it disabled for over a week now and battery life has been back to normal).
I have the same issue with my battery draining on my Apple Watch Series 6 with no cellular. The update is what is causing our problem. I hope they come out with an update that will fix this.
Yeah I have an se2 and the same is happeniywith me
Same issue here. Apple watch 4 with iPhone SE 2020. Wish I could go back to IOS 8! 🥲
Just updating here, with my Series 6 cellular+gps, after turn off cellular, the battery consumption is normal again.
As per my previous post, change the watch face. I changed from Unity Lights to a Chronograph Pro version and I am all ok now 🤗
Change your watch face. I used Unity Lights at the time of OS9 upgrade and got poor battery as well as watch freezing. Changed to a Chronograph Pro and now everything is fine again.
WatchOS 9 Battery Drain on Cellular/GPS
