Apple Watch update 10.3 battery now lasted two hrs?

Moetmoet wrote:

I have the se2 and despite two complete hard restarts and reinstalling the whole OS twice from a factory reset, with no additional apps or music etc, battery still drains in approx 4-5 hrs. Basically can’t use it any more. It’s like bricking the watch. Apple, sort this out.

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More recently now with the 10.3.1 update seemed to make it even worse on my Ultra 2, purchased not even a week ago. It was running 10.3, and the battery was 'fine' with the software, but since the 10.3.1 update was installed, I've been watching the battery percentage tick down by the half hour.

THE ULTRA 2. Absolutely insane that it's this bad now.

Davidbiz0303 wrote:

I believe it allows the watch to drain all the way down before it does recharge in the hope that that prolongs the life of the battery.

That's not actually the way Optimized Battery Charging works. It never lets the battery drain all the way as that would, in fact, decrease the life of the battery. What it does, is stop charging at 80% until it thinks you're going to take the watch off the charge in a while, then it charges it the rest of the way.

Charing the battery to full has no adverse effect on the battery life. What Optimized Charging is trying to avoid is the battery getting hot which can decrease the life if the battery. How

Have you tried any of the suggestions? From what I have seen this is most likely linked to third party apps and not the watch or watchOS itself.

My issue appears to have resolved itself today. After 14 hours of wearing the watch (even to the gym at 5AM for an hour), I still have 75% battery left. Hoping everyone else’s issues are also being resolved.

Hi, so yesterday at 22.00 - 100% - weared with sleep mode - today 05.30 - 84% - 08.00 - 72%- only weared¨with no fuction on. Sleep mode - no data in health>sleep !!!! (till this sunday normal function, from monday no sleep data)

Whatś wrong Apple?????

Have same problem. Apple Watch SE 2022. Trying soft reset, factory reset many times - nothing help. My watch live only 6-7 hours no matter what (power economy mode, training mode - drain battery equally).

Hi Everybody,

My old apple watch 4 - after 5 years - 83% capacity of battery

Now apple watch 8 GPS+Cellular - 1 year and 1 month - 90% capacity - in last 2 days minus 2% !!!!

Today i contacted Apple support - they send me online analysis - nothing wrong with my 8 series......

Is comic - one of questions was if i swim with my watches - they are waterresistant 50 m !!!!!

So we will see what will apple do with this issue.

And not to mention that my ecg and bpm sensors don’t work anymore since last september

tgat being said, the watch became an actual watch (not some cool device) that lasts 2h on full charge.

in that case I could probably purchase some watch for 20$ and it would still show me the time for 1 year lasting on one small battery.

great job guys 👏🏻

Update:- after a reset I was no longer able to verify the update. Restored from an old backup and then it wouldn’t charge at all despite saying my battery is at 100% health. It has now completely broken and only gets hot when I charge. It’s just over a year old so warranty isn’t valid and I’ve had to bin it. I guess all the resets and charging killed the battery for good and the 100% health was just a load of rubbish. Is this just an aggressive tactic to force people to buy apple care? So disappointed with Apple’s contempt for its customers.

That’s maybe good for you, but it’s not related to the context here.

if we’ve paid 400$ for a device we don’t want to upgrade to next model even if that means reasonably small fee. Especially when the battery itself is not an issue but the software they’re serving us . Software that’s unreliable, useless, annoying.

adding 100$ and getting 5th gen instead of 4th may sound like a solution but this is not something everyone would want. Especially not here.

I have am Apple watch 8 and it has been fine up until april and all of a sudden it can drain the battery in 8 hours or like last night it drained in 5 hours and the the other day it lasted 20 hours as normal.

Mine lasts 20 hour now and the and all of a sudden it only lasts 5 hours The soft reset doesn’t work and I don’t see how it would since it’s a hard reset every time it dies from the battery running out?

I always charge mine to full before sleep since i use it for sleep tracking and the other day I worked as usual and and few nights it dies during the night within 3-5 hours ( i can see when the sleep tracking stops).

Mine barely lasted 8 hours since update