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
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.
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.
As I mentioned earlier I changed my series 5 watch face from Unity Lights to Chronograph Pro and it is now fine and doesn't freeze now and battery life is back to where it was pre OS9.
I could roughly get 2 to 2 1/2 days out of my new ultra Apple Watch. Now I can barely go a day after updating to watchOS 9. Fix it Apple
Hi,
try changing your watch face. I changed from Unity Lights to Chronograph Pro and my battery life returned to normal levels 🤗
That’s not a solution. This is happening to everyone who has updated.
It is a solution as the problem no longer exists on a different face. At least I now have my battery life back and I can wait to see if a fix comes out longer term.
I am going to try your suggestion, I’ll keep you posted. 👍🏻 although i have changed my faces previously with the drain. Did you delete all your faces and remake them?
What version watch are you using? Ultra?
Nope, just switched. Found a post that said particular faces caused the battery drain, especially Unity Lights that I had been using. Just switched to in my case a Chronograph Pro one.
Ok. Thanks. Mine is still having issues 😩
Interesting… I have not experienced that. But i appreciate your input. 👍🏻
Yes I agree changing to another watch face isn't a fix, it's the upgrade.
Agreed….
Just to be clear this is 9.1 watchOS 🫤
watchOS 9 battery drain
