Apple Ultra Watch 9.3 update battery drain (bleeding out)

Did you take it in? I have a brand new watch and battery as per everyone else. Ie if no update soon I will request a new watch

A long drawn process, but this appeared to do the trick so far:

Force reset both watch and phone

Unpair/re-pair watch

Charge to 100 and use it all the way till is dies

Charge to 100 and that should do it.

I was averaging 1.7% per hour before, which is 2.5 days.

Now it's 1.2% per hour - 3+ days

I had no idea about this forum but have noticed a lot of negative effects from the 9.3 update. Not only does the battery drain like crazy, but my health info doesn’t sync anymore. So I had been troubleshooting the health thing, I noticed it first. Then I notice I am charging twice a day. Before bedtime “10am” and then again before the work day is even over. I have to throw it on the charger around 4pm. It’s notifying me it’s at 10%. Same usage and I am a person of routine. I don’t get many notifications. This is a real issue.

And what happened after you tried any of the solutions people have posted in this thread, which has worked for them?

Don't just respond to the first post in a thread. Read the thread to see if anyone has any suggestions, which work. Which they did and have worked.

It seems like a restore/ erase and re -pair worked for me. Watch is at 47% since 10 hours. Hopefully tomorrow is good as well. I did notice my Sleep++ tracking changed in appearance. I used to see AWAKE, REM, CORE, DEEP. Now it only shows AWAKE, RESTLESS,RESTFUL.... wonder why this changed?

Exactly the same problem here, upgraded to 9.3 and went from 3 days battery life to less than one day. Very frustrating. Now have to charge daily to be able to use sleep tracking. Clearly something is wrong.

I unpaired my watch and re -paired. It seems ok now.

I bought the watch series 7 a year ago as new. Never have done some special battery saving settings on it, and charged the battery every morning when it was around 60-50 percent.

With this new update it did not last a working day anymore, had to charge it in the morning and again around 8pm to reach the next morning.

I have now tried just about everything listed as a solution in this topic, but nothing brings me back to the previous battery life. The only thing that helps me is to put the switch 'background app refresh' to off and now the watch gets me back to the next morning. It helps and leaves me with about 20 percent battery life.

Apple brought me a real bad update.

Hi. Same here with Watch 8 on 9.3 in sleep mode. Previously after 8h sleep, battery was about 85%. Now it is about 30-35%... No apps running, sleep enabled.

Hello. So I had the same issue as everyone and I am using an Apple Watch Series 4, nike version (if that is even a thing, hehe). Went for a swim yesterday, wore my watch at 1030am after showering. Battery was dead at 1500hrs after my swim (which was an hour long). So I tried charging it but it never charges more than 80%. So went to settings checked the battery integrity, it was 87% so still pretty good, doesn't require a change of battery yet.

• Did the hard reset - Did not work
• Unpaired and erased the settings and re-paired it as a brand new did not work as well
• So I furthered my research turns out my face watch was the issue, I changed it to the Nike compact face. Battery started charging back to 100% and back to the 18 hrs usage.

Hope this helps.

Apple Watch Ultra

Tried the hard reset, un-pair, and re-pair. No change.

Just did a 40 minute walk, tracked as a workout, with streaming radio to Powerbeats Pro with line of sight to 4G tower. Dropped about 18 percent. Normally this would knock off only a few percent.

It was fine up until the recent software update (9.3)

Apple.... help!

Just received today update 9.3.1 for the watch. Lets see if this brings a boost on the battery drain.

Update the iphone first

Well I don't want to speak too soon but my battery life is vastly improved. It's still used 41% in 24hrs, but that's a great deal better than it was.

I have series 7 GPS& cellular/ with out using the cellular- I updated to 9.3.1 and battery dropped from 20hrs of charge to under 4 hrs. I soft reset and even reset the entire watch like it was new - and I am still having quick drain issues. Not sure why some are having issues and others not - but any insight on a work around would be GREATLY Apreciated!