Apple Watch battery draining fast

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

Since doing the erase option but keeping the watch paired to the iPhone I can confirm that it does seem to have fixed the issue. Battery use is back to normal.

I had the same issue, only thing that worked for me was unpairing the watch from my phone and retrying it. I have been having issues all day with the battery draining from 100% to 0% in 3 hours and am told by support that this will solve the issue. Currently have 2 minutes remaining of the update so fingers crossed this works but I recommend unpairing the watch and repairing

I thought it was only me, since I’ve gotten my watch in October, I’ve never even seen it go past 45%. So today when it was at 38% I was surprised, I figured it must be because i was receiving a lot of texts even though I don’t normally use it, but it’s almost 7pm, I left the house at 5:30 and it was on 90% there’s no reason it should be on 22% now and draining. What’s going on?? This is why I don’t like to jump on updates. Can they give an update to fix this issue, this is very problematic.

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

I bought the Apple Watch 9 three days ago and on the second day the battery drained from 100% to 10% in 4 hours. The updates got stuck in the preparation phase. Last night I did a hard reset, updated to version 10.4 and today everything is working fine.

I have had an Ultra for 9 months and had the same problem a few days ago. Yesterday it seemed to have trouble identifying an update. Then I read this thread (thanks) and tried unpairing and re-pairing, and update to watchOS 10.4 happened. Then today everything is fine. 100 % this morning and full day of use and now 12 hours later 70%.

This is my first Apple Watch, 2-3-24. I purchased mainly for the sleep tracking & Health, and have occasionally used Siri to text. That’s it! My charging schedule has been to charge while I’m winding down for bedtime, and it’s fully charged as I go to sleep. Battery has never been an issue until this past week, suddenly 3x I have been warned of low battery before I could get home. Once prelunch, yesterday in the early evening, and this morning after onky the night’s sleep, and making a pot of coffee and reading. I’ve done nothing different, and as a still learning owner, very frustrated. (The only other issue is it occasionally vibrating while I’m asleep, waking me up, which I got the thing to help me document my sleep issues, not cause more).

Any official word from Apple on how to fix this? I just had an absolutely useless chat with Apple support, unbelievably embarrassing how they have no idea what’s going on. Just tips on how to optimize battery life. Seriously Apple!

I’m down 6% in 30 minutes after doing this twice. At that rate it’s 8 hours to die rather than minimum 3 days prior. Not entirely sure it’s the lock of a fix you’re convinced it is. Happy yours works though. Agree that Apple needs to do better. Every update struggles to go through and then there’s often something to battle through after. Kind of a joke Apple.

I was already on all the latest updates before this started. Since then I’ve experienced it happening intermittently. So I suspect there’s something else going on here that’s periodically causing the burn through. Incidentally, my watch’s battery health is now 98% after, what, four months?! I’m wondering if that has been caused by excessive battery drain and associated heat?…

I'm pretty sure the problem is with whatever software reads the level of the battery, not the actual level of the battery itself. A hard restart (holding both side buttons) and recharging to 100% has worked for me, with the recharge taking only minutes to return to 100%. With so many people experiencing the same problem, you can be sure they're scrambling to release a fix for this in a new release soon. (It's not the age of your watch or the quality of your battery or the apps suddenly draining it. I wouldn't recommend the big erase-your-watch fixes being suggested here.)

I think there is a clue there. This was the same case with my Apple Watch Series 9 in my wife’s Apple Watch Series 3. My Settings had automatic software updates and Hertz did not and she has not had this problem at all. This is one more reason why I think the battery draining problem has to do with the automatic software updates and any files that downloads onto your devices.