I have an apple watch 5. After upgrading to watchOS 9, I am facing a serious battery drain, where a full recharge is not enough for 12h without workout and 1h with a workout? is that a OS issue? or my watchOS battery is not in a good shape? Before the upgrade I was recharging every 24h
Apple Watch Series 5
Hi here, I have been encountering the exact same problem for 2 weeks but have finally found a way that stops the battery drain for me.
I'm using Apple Watch Ultra but started encountering a serious battery drain issue starting from last week, battery evaporates at a 10% hourly rate on idle state even when my low power mode is on. Some solutions would suggest repairing or factory reset, but none of those actually worked for me. I had to use my AppleCare for an exchange, but the second watch suffers from the same nightmare.
After reading: apple.com/uk/batteries/maximizing-performance/
Disabling Bluetooth on your iPhone increases the battery drain on your Apple Watch. For more power-efficient communication between the devices, keep Bluetooth enabled on iPhone.
I noticed that as long as I keep the bluetooth of my iPhone on, the battery situation will be normal. (now at ~1% per hour instead of 10%)
Personally I feel that there is a problem with WatchOS 9.1 when dealing with the no-bluetooth situation, but I'd suggest to give this a try if you are suffering from the same issue & also have a habit to keep the iPhone bluetooth disabled.
Hope this helps somebody.
Hope this will help some of you fix the battery issue:
I constantly encounter battery drain, until I noticed a pattern. I always get fast battery depletion (at 1% every 5-10 minutes) after switching my apple account's region, then I realized once I have accepted the new T&C after a region change, the draining problem will stop immediately.
Not saying this is a guaranteed resolution, but worth giving it a try, especially on an Ultra model.
I have an Apple Watch SE (2020). Unpairing and setting up as a new watch worked for me. It’s annoying but give it a try….
Again as I have said on here many times. I had same issue with my Series 5. Changed the watch face from Unity Lights to Chronograph Pro and now everything is fine 🤗
My battery drain started with 9.3 download. I put the watch into Low Power Mode for a day. After that, battery performance back to normal. Don't know why that worked, but I'm not complaining.
No, this is an issue with the new watchOS or the iOS 16, it's happening to me with the battery health at 84%.
Last week the watch was working normally (charging it every night with around 45% of battery) now I have to charge it twice per day, the battery flies.
this battery drain has just started happening to both my wife's watch and mine, we both have series 4 watches and since the update to 9.0.2. I don't think both our batteries are bad at the exact same time. I think the new version has something running in the background that is draining the battery. also I have paired/unpaired my watch already. this didn't help.
So I’ve always had my Series 6 set to Display Always On, as I would always have at least 30% battery left when heading to bed.
However, since upgrading to os9, it’s always less than 10%. So today, I set the Display to Off, and the battery was at 62% at bedtime
Going to set it back to Always On for tomorrow and see how it goes, but looks like the display is using way more battery in os9, for whatever reason…
I have had the battery drain after installing 9.1 on my watch. I did the troubleshooting at home with Apple, and then took it to the genius bar. The Genius Bar did verify that the battery was draining at a rapid rate. My battery health is 100%. The watch is six months old. The watch was sent into Apple for repair, but they said they couldn’t find the issue and are sending me back a defective watch. I have filed a better business report, and will be returning to the Apple store to see if a manager might be able to do something more. It seems like they should replace the watch when it’s only six months old. Clearly it’s a software issue because everything was functioning fine before that. I had not installed any new apps. I have read that other people are having this issue. I am incredibly upset at Apple for not standing behind their warranty.
I set my watch to Low Power Mode. I still have the functionality that I normally use. See Use Low Power Mode on your Apple Watch - Apple Support. Battery drain could be less than before I installed 9.3.
I experienced something similar with My Watch 5 (OS 9.1 I think). Health state: 81%.
I used to end the day at 50%, then suddenly after OS 9.4 upgrade, It ended at 20%.
I tried Economy mode, it improved slightly (ended 35-40%).
I turned off developer mode, no change.
And then, after a few days, situation has returned to normal by itself.
Was the watch busy for a few days after upgrade for some background tasks ?
Even before watch OS 6 My S4 and S6 watch would have short battery life and unpairing and setting up again would return battery life to a satisfactory level.
My experience with earlier watchOS version is that I had to setup as new to cure short battery life.
Aside from not enabling bluetooth connection, not agreeing with the iCloud T&C seems to also result in a battery drain as the watch constantly attempts to sign in to iCloud in the background.
Same with an Apple Watch 6. Before watch os 9, last week, one charge per day was fine, now I need 4 or 5 with the same use. If I reboot the watch it works fine one day, and the next day goes back to need 4 or 5 charges per day.
I have had the same problem since OS9, but my watch is also freezing. First time I had to reboot it, but now it seems to burst back into life if I get up and walk around. Unpaired the watch and then re-paired. Asked which backup to use so I selected a pre OS9 version. However, after setting back up it was still at OS9. Not at all happy with the upgrade.
watchOS 9 battery drain
