My Apple Watch has started losing battery so fast on its own even when I don’t raise my wrist or use it. I left the house with 99% and after just 2 hours it had reached 32%! I tried uninstalling most apps and turning off the notifications but it still drains the same amount, what else can be done?
Apple Watch SE, watchOS 10
I ended doing the Apple Support chat and then the phone call BUT my watch seems back to normal and I was finally able to finish the watch update. Some of the things they had me do:
1.) Reset the Network Settings on my phone to refresh the wifi
2.) Hard factory reset my phone and my watch (holding the buttons until the apple appears, turning on the watch first so it was awake when the phone turned on)
3.) Open the update screen on both my phone and watch
4.) And sadly just sit and wait
In total it took about 2-2 1/2 hours for the whole thing once I started talking to the support chat and probably 3 or so hours from what I tried before contacting support. But eventually the bar moved after leaving the phone awake on the update screen.
I did the same but restored from the backup and I’ve not had any issues since.
I did this, including disabling automatic app install, but set it up as new instead of restoring.
appears to have worked.
thanks!
I unpaired and repaired my watch a week ago and it seems to have resolved the issue for now. Worth a try. I did not erase anything.
Same as everyone else with the update managed to update watch to 10.4 still same issues dropped 9% battery in about 30 minutes Someone on here said to toggle off “background app refresh” on the Apple Watch app Im trying this and so far it’s holding charge not dropped below 91% in the last 10 minutes or so so this could be a work around until Apple pull there fingers out and sort it 🙄 will update with how I get on next few hours
Same here: battery draining as like the rest of us. Read that update might help so looked to see if there was one waiting. 10.4 was available. Update was fairly quick. Now running for over an hour and still at 100%. Fingers crossed!
Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) 44mm case (Model: A2723)
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 had the same problem with my SE 2022, but i then opend my iPhone and in the Watch app, turn off
notifications , and dimm the light , that helped me, now it loses 5 % in about 4 to 5 hours. Again it also depends
on how often you turn your whist
Last night I turned off optimized battery charging and in 8 hours it only lost 18%. Have always had that on before.
try that and see how it goes for you all
So far so good. 10:44 was at 96%. Now at 3:02 89%, so much better than it has been! Just un-paired and re-paired.....Both devices have to most recent updates.....
Guys try resetting the OS… I did the same via service center guys and now there is no battery draining issue. They also said there was a glitch which they resolved by resetting the OS.
FYI in case helpful; I downloaded 10.4 which took longer than usual, but does seem to have addressed the issue for now; it’s dropped around 15% over the course of 5/6 hours. Will keep an eye to ensure the ‘fix’ has worked
I’m not the only one. This has happened several times over the past few months. When I notice it’s draining, I reset the watch holding the two same side buttons down. It reboots and seems fine for a few weeks. One time, that didn’t help and the battery drained to 0. A few minutes later, while on the charger, the apple appeared, and it rebooted and charged.
Hopefully, it’s an OS error that will be corrected soon.
It seems that the problem is that the update to watchOS 10.4 literally eats up the watch's battery.
Once updated, the battery drain returns to normal.
Be careful! because updating to watchOS 10.4 is also tedious and gives problems (it freezes and you have to delete the update and update again after resetting iPhone and Apple watch).
Hope this help
Best wishes to all
Tried factory reset to no avail. Battery status is 91% so it can’t be the battery. Next move is to remove the app on my iPhone completely, reset the Apple Watch and try it one last time before consigning to a drawer to await the next update.
apple support non existent, lots of customers have this fault but Apple simply does not respond. Difficult to believe that with diagnostics indicating no problem with the hardware that they are incapable of rolling out a fix to a widespread problem.
If Apple has offered to replace your device I’d suggest moving forward with returning it. No point in delaying getting a replacement Watch.
Most community members though are having a different issue which is very easy to resolve. There no point in confusing your issue with theirs
Apple Watch battery draining fast
