Apple Watch Battery Drain Issues after Update

UPDATE: I unpaired and repaired my Watch from my phone. BAD NEWS! My fully charged battery was completely drained within two hours. 😡

I may just go b ack to a previous WatchOS until this ****-show is resolved. Disappointed.

My SE 2 started only getting 6-8 hours on a charge. I was told to reset to new by support and it didn't work. So I took it to Apple to be sent back. Support had told me they would return the watch to the previous version. I just got a message that they couldn't duplicate the problem so they were returning it? They didn't have it long enough to test it. It was 2 days out of warranty if that means anything.

@ Engilaird:

Maybe that worked for you, in which case you’re lucky.

I’ve rebooted both my Apple watch 7 (OS 10.0.1) and my iPhone 12 (OS 17.0.3).

I’ve unpaired and re-paired them.

My watch still won’t charge more than 75%.

By mid-day my watch is down to 15% charged. I then put it on the charger for an hour or so to get it back up to 75%.

By about 8:00 PM it is back down to about 15% charged, and I have to put it back on the charger.

It’s almost like it spends more time on the charger than it does on my wrist. This behavior started when I “upgraded” my watch OS to 10.0.1. (I had already updated my phone to OS 17.0.3.)

Or did you mean an actual hard reset, as in “reset to factory settings,” rather than a reboot, which is what you described?

@dadilus, there’s an update since 10.0.1? Where did you find that? Mine says that it’s “up to date with all the latest bug fixes and security enhancements” at 10.0.1 and doesn’t provide any option(s) to install anything newer.

@Engiland that’s exactly what I did. And more than once, on different days. I’m an IT person (but not Apple) and the industry folk wisdom is always “Turn it off, wait at least 30 seconds, then turn it back on.” Made no difference, so maybe you were just lucky.

My case is more extreme. I go from 100% to 10% in 3 hours. Today, it’s worse. Took off charger at 100% at 6 AM and it’s now 8:20. I’m not even wearing it, and just got the notification that it’s at 25%. Apple better fix this soon or they’re going to lose me as a customer, and I’ve been with them for years.

Same issue here and now I'm having an issue with it going into bedtime mode, but it doesn't give me the option to turn it off. I disabled sleep tracking for now as a workaround. I also tried to disable the extra mirroring to my phone to see if that would help save some battery. Hope there is an update to fix soon!

After chatting for two days with apple technical support, they deemed the best course of action is to send it in for evaluation where techs will inspect the battery. I assume it's to downgrade the software however, they were unable to send me a packing slip to send my watch in for repair. They claim the reason being their "sending service is under any damage... like hardware issues only" Since my battery issue is due to a software issue he was unable to find a packing slip for me to ship at no charge. I went to the apple store yesterday and the technician who helped me said that is incorrect and it could have easily been handled online by Tech Support. So now my watch is with Apple and they will be in touch with their findings. I am hoping they downgrade the software and fix my issue.

This is exactly what my Watch was doing: from 100% to 0 within 3 hours, without working, music, no extra activities.

Yesterday I unpaired and repaired the Watch with my phone. Deleted and reinstalled latest iOS 17 version, then powered BOTH off and charged them each to full.

Happy to report that this morning I tracked a workout for over 90 mins and several hours later my Watch is now at 80%!

I hope this helps some of you! 🤞🏼 👊🏼

The most useful advice I have seen so far is to turn off the Noise app in the Watch settings. It hasn't taken me back to where I was before watchOS 10, but having done this, I am now getting around 20 hours of battery life in my Series 5. Enough to get through a typical day, at least. Hope this helps someone else, at least until Apple acknowledges this issue and fixes it.

This is my exact scenario! Watch (series 5) stayed charged all day long & I only ever had to charge it at bedtime. Now since the update I have to charge it 3 times a day. I put it on at 7:30am and it’s completely dead by noon. Now my battery health is suddenly 79% and saying it needs support. This was not the case the day before the update. I’m so frustrated.

I finally had success today by unpairing my watch, then re-pairing. Then I powered down both and left off for a while. Then when fully charged, I uninstalled and reinstalled the latest OS on my iPhone.

Before, my battery died within 3 hrs, without any workouts, music, etc that I typically do. Today, it is still at 51% at 4:20 pm, after being 100% at 4:00 this morning.

i hot you get the same result! 🤞🏼

Apple Watch 7 series and iPhone 14 Pro Max both suffering ridiculous drain rate since the last few updates.

I used to get about 15-16 hours’ use before I charged the watch and there would be more than 20% remaining, but today I had it on for less than 6 hours, and I’ve just had to put it on the charger because it was in the red.

This needs to be fixed.

Turning off all the extra apps that were mirrored to my phone and turning off the sleep tracking (can’t wear my watch at night anyway) seems to have resolved the issue. I think the update turned on a bunch of background apps that are draining the battery 🤷🏼‍♀️

After watch is 10.1 RC update, my batch battery became crazy. Loosing power at high speed, over heating while charging and even losing battery while charging ! It became unusable. I restarted it, restored it, nothing changed… hope apple will release a RC2 soon !