Battery charge plunges after watchOS 9.5

After trying all the things on this forum and the update to 9.5.1, I am still experiencing 3 to 4 times faster battery drain than what I was experiencing before 9.5. Has anyone had any luck with anything else? I’ve tried all the resets and made sure all the battery draining things are off. I am operating a 6 series, which obviously is a little older, but I literally had no issues making it 24-36 hrs before 9.5 and now I have to charge multiple times to keep it going in a day of normal use. I feel like my watch is spending more time on the charger than on my wrist.

If a restart nor a forced restart does the trick, the next step is exactly what you did and that is to unpair and set it up again, which usually resolves issues. I'm glad its now working as expected again.

Bradly82 wrote:

I am keen to know where I can get WebOS, I have never heard of this.

I think that poster meant watchOS. WebOS is not something that Apple uses and would certainly not run on an Apple Watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS

My watch is barely lasting 4 hours. It was fine just a week ago. Sure it wasn't lasting as long as it did when I bought it but I could at least make it through a work day. Now I can't even make it to lunch.

sdoutriaux wrote:

On my Apple Watch Utra, since the update to 9.5.2, the battery life has been cut in half! Battery health still shows at 100% but I have gone from 2 days to only 1 day between charges. Angry!

Don't be angry. Figure out what is using your battery. At a minimum, when you updated, did you restart your watch after updating it? If no, you should always restart your watch or any iOS based device after every update.

With WatchOS 9.5.2, battery life on my Ultra has been absolutely fantastic, so it's clearly not an issue with the update.

I have series 8. Ive updated to 9.5.2. I’ve unpaired and re-paired my watch several times. I’ve force restarted my iPhone and unpaired then re-paired the watch. Still no luck on my battery life. It’s still plunging and dead within 8 hours. My battery health is at 100%. I’m at a loss of what to do next. Apple support won’t help since battery life is at 100%. Is it possible there’s an app on my watch or phone that may be draining the battery??

newuser64 wrote:

I did restart it and it hasn't helped. Is this Apple trying to get us to upgrade?

Hardly. The vast majority of Apple Watch users are having no battery life issues at all. I'd recommend unpairing your watch from your iPhone and setting it up as a new watch (not from backup) and don't load any 3rd party apps on your watch and see how battery life is. Apps like Spotify, for example have been shown to eat up battery, even when they're not being used.

I have an Apple Watch 5 and after the update to 9.5, my battery barely makes it through a work day. Battery life prior was normal.

Same here. Hope there’s a fix soon

Yes, me too. Updated my Watch Ultra this morning, it was on about 60% charge at 8am and 13% charge by 11am. Battery definitely good - up to yesterday I was getting 2 days battery life.

same thing with a series 8. dropped 45% sleeping overnight. not good.

I turned my watch off and on again. Now it's fine. Went down from 69% to 54% in 9 hours.

I have an Apple Watch series 8 and I have the same issue with battery running down quickly after 9.5 update, so it’s not only the series 4

Work through these which contains an overnight test for "battery shot"

Apple Watch uses a LOT of battery - Apple Community

If it was then we would all have the same problem, most of us haven't .

Conflict of ios16.5 with something on the iphone maybe.

Apple Watch uses a LOT of battery - Apple Community