Apple Watch Series 5 - Battery Issue

What is the Battery Health on your watch? On your watch, open the Settings App and swipe up till you see Battery. Tap Battery and then Battery Health. If Battery Health is near or below 80%, the battery in your watch is failing. Which for a 3 year old watch, wouldn't be all that unusual.

it isn't leaking internally but may be its way out certainly. - sick battery syndrome, stepwise charging.

You may need to wait until it is 79% before Apple will replace it unless you go via Apple Support and explain your predicament. Even though you are willing to pay the $80 they often refuse (heaven knows why)

Try this overnight powered-off, off-charge test

How to check your Apple Watch battery fo… - Apple Community

Glad our hijack didn't bother you! Do be advised that Apple won't Actually replace the battery in your watch, if you choose to go that route. For a fee, they'll take your watch and give you a refurbished, but like new watch of the same model and color.

ballaratsteve wrote:

Battery health is 81%. Perhaps it is failing.

Yes, you're close to the end of the useful life of the battery. I'd speak with Apple about your issues. Or maybe consider trading the watch in and moving up to a newer model.

According to 9to5Mac its the same pseudo-shutdown that keeps iphones etc sending out find-my signals when powered down. iOS16? maybe added in OS9 too.

Anyway not enough power to use more than the odd % overnight. Maybe enough to worry when stored for weeks.

I would imagine, though I'm not going to test my suspicion, after enough time, the push in the crown will reveal a dark screen without the time to help preserve the battery. I do wonder if a powered off watch is now findable? There's nothing Apple has out there which suggests it can be tracked powered off. And people come here daily asking why they can't find a dead watch?

lobsterghost1 - I noticed when my Watch was powered off it was still able to put out a feint digital time when touched. Never noticed that before

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I've never seen mine do that, but honestly haven't even tried. Next time I restart my watch, I'll check.

It doesn't react every time, I think it only allows one view every minute when you press the crown

It would not show again til 16:49

Well I'll be darned. I checked on my Ultra, powered it off, waited a minute, then pushed the digital crown in and low and behold, the time was displayed. I had no idea it did that!

I just turned the SE off and iphone Find My did not update the status til I turned it back on.