Battery drain with watches 9.2

so I just unpaired my watch and left it unpaired for a while to see whether the issue is still there or not, I fully charged it at night and in the morning i put it back on the charger (the only way to know the battery indicator when it is unpaired) and Im shocked that only about 50% left, so the watch used 50% of battery overnight doing basically NOTHING as it is still unpaired. I can say in my case that it is not the watch settings or background tasks that causing the issue, Apple you need to FIX this asap!

Morning, did you re-boot your phone then watch after the unpairing?

I’ve found that’s the only thing that fix’s that issue.

mine still drains when I use Instagram on my phone for some strange reason (even though it’s not shown as an app in my watch app!!).

Apple need to look at this bug, and I definitely wouldn’t give them any money to look at your watch

I agree with @Stephan8888 and not spend the money. After all my restores, and talking with the Genius Bar, the final thing that seemed to work for me was a dual forced restart of both watch and iPhone. Holding both knobs on watch until Apple Logo appears and doing the Volume Up, Volume Down and the Power Button on iPhone until Apple logo appears. That seemed to be the final item that worked for me. It solved it but then 9.3 installed so I did the dual reboot right away and did not have any battery issues.

I've faced the battery drain for several weeks and hit on a solution that may help others (thanks also to Apple support for helping find this solution).

When the Watch OS updated to 9.3.1, my phone was on 9.1.1 and for some reason the phone OS update got downloaded but did not get installed. I realize now that the battery draining manifested just around that time.

After resetting the watch one thousand times and doing everything else suggested on this forum ... including removing all apps, disabling all active listenening/monitoring features and swiching off ALL notifications, I still had a dead watch within 3 hours of a full charge.

Updating the phone OS to 9.3.1 to be in sync with the watch fixed the battery drain automagically for me. I did unpair and pair it agin just to play safe. And now 7 hours after a full charge my watch battery is at 48% so I'm a very happy and contented person at this moment.

I've also recommended to Apple support to make the updates intelligent such that the watch OS is never ahead of the phone OS unless its absolutely essential - in case that helps prevent such glitches in the future. Or else to make sure these differences don't cause such unexpected outcomes.

No such problem here. Still on 72% after 8 hours. SE2022

I've re-booted my phone, watch, unpaired and it's still draining ridiculously fast.

I don't have that many apps running, and very few notifications.

Any ideas?

I normally have around 8 watch faces which I select according to activity or mood. I discovered that they were triplicated up to 24. After I deleted the excess ones my battery is back to normal

Thank you for clarifying - take nothing for granted when responding in here. Forced restart will reset many glitches as you will find out if you stick around.

Great. Thx Stephan for the helpful suggestion. I'm going to try it...fingers crossed this trick does it!