Apple Watch battery draining fast

Mine started doing this same thing today. It was 100% when I woke up and I’m now on my second charge of the day at not even 3pm because I got the notification that it was down to 10% again. I haven’t received as many notifications today as usual either so that’s not the reason. I’m charging currently and the update won’t do anything until 50% so I’m going to try that. But very frustrating overall.

So I put my watch back on the charger since it was close to dying again for the 3rd time within a day. I went on my phone to the watch app>general>storage and deleted the watch os update. This resolved the preparing issue I was facing then I went to the software update in the watch app and installed the update, now it looks like my watch is back to a proper battery drain. Try it and see

My watch too, is suddenly draining ridiculously quickly. I’m glad I found this thread as it sounds the same as all of your issues. Fully charged when I went to bed last night, dead on waking this morning. Charged it twice yesterday. I’ve just checked for updates and 10.4 is there waiting but there had been no notification, which there usually is. Is anyone having the issues AFTER updating to 10.4 or does that fix it? I don’t want to exacerbate the problem. Thank you. BTW does Apple ever respond on these threads, as I don’t think I’ve seen any assistance from them?

This started happening to me before 10.4. After 10.4 it stopped for a few days/weeks. But it’s returned. The difference is night and day.

Normal day: 100% at 7 am and 56% at 10 pm bed time.

With this issue: 100% at 7 and out of battery around 6 pm.

No different apps. Less activity as less workouts etc. No changes to background settings. Hard reboot may fix but it returns. Also not a 10.4 issue. 10.3 maybe?

New watch as of October. Wife got same watch at same time having similar issues.

I just got done reaming out Apple support representative in the end. They admitted that they’ve acknowledged that this is a problem with the update and they’re working on it so the person you talk to who ponded off on being our fault is wrong and should have never done that, but they are working on it.

I did the reset a few days ago and so far the issue seems to have been resolved. Also noticed a few other glitches have been ironed out such as the calendar incorrectly showing the wrong (previous) colour. Fingers crossed…

I’ve just started experiencing the exact same issue. Battery was fine yesterday, but now drains in a matter of hours with no real use of the watch features at all.

I too tried updating my watch and it’s been ‘preparing’ the update for a couple hours now.

Same for me, bought my watch 6 days ago and today it was at 10% after 4 hours.

up, software preparing is taking ages

Same here. Mine has drained to 10% twice in 12 hours and I’ve been sitting on my butt for most of the day.

My watch has been in preparing update mode for over two hours and the battery drains quickly…..75% to 3% in less than two hours. This never happened up until today & I just got it for Christmas.

Just to confirm my earlier post: updating to 10.4 has cured the problem, I'm at 86% after 5 hours.

Me too! 730 am 100% charges 1238 pm 8% what’s up Apple?

Same issue started yesterday. I’m happy it is not me. I have the Ultra. Battery only last half the day

Thanks but we shouldn't be going to that extreme, this falls entirely on Apple. I spent a good deal of time with support and my conclusion is that they have no idea what's going on. Scary