WatchOS 9.4 is eating my battery alive

Thank you @Javaliga, however I did already do all these things as I mentioned. It's been ongoing for a few weeks now, and the past 2 days it's especially maddening. Charging it up when getting up in the morning, putting it on my wrist with 95% charge, 8 hours later it's 19%.

I'll dig through the topics, but I'm afraid it's the end of the line again for a Watch due to a 'too heavy' OS update. This time I'm done though, not getting another Watch.

OK, after a few days I can indeed report that it seems to be under control. In fact, I've been using Theater mode to keep the display off over the last 2 months (ever since 9.4 came out) and just today after close to 20 hours of not being charged, the watch is at 33%.

Another update, no real improvement. 9.5 is equally as bad. Has anybody else experienced these issues with an Apple Watch 4?

Thank you, I realised just now I had an iOS update waiting on my iPhone, so I didn't get the notification that watchOS was updated as well. I'll try it!