Apple Watch Battery Draining suddenly after Software Update

After the last update everyone’s watches unpaired, even though they were still paired. Now, this updated kills batteries?!

Same thing happening with my watch 7. It gets stuck about 2/3 of the way into “preparing”.

Having the same issue with my watch and Oura ring after the update last night.

The same thing happened to myself, my coworker, and her husband! Clearly there’s an issue. Does anyone know if Apple knows about this or is working to address it?

My watch battery died within an hour after the iOS 17.4 update, then phone is stuck in preparing in watch app.

Having the exact same issue — so is a colleague at work. They set it to airplane mode and had success — will try that until there is a fix.

Same here! I have had to charge my watch 3 times today! Before the iPhone update I could go 24 hours. Fix it!

Someone on here said to toggle off “background app refresh” on the Apple Watch app. My watch is holding a charge. Thank you to whomever that was!

UPDATE:

After getting home and charging my watch on the fast charger, once at 50% I was able to install the 10.4 update. It definitely seems to have stopped the fast watch draining.

Same problem here!!!! Asked the Apple support, they just told me go fix my new watch (just bought it at February)😑

I was able to fix the update issue with updating via watch…. Not the phone. I’m not sure if it resolved the drain issue yet.

Today my iPhone was updated to 17.4.1 and now my Apple Watch draining every two hours

Same happened here! I did the update yesterday morning and wore my watch all day and night without a problem. Charged it Friday morning to 100% and within 3 hours it was completely dead. I was at the salon when it died and my stylist said her watch died too! Knew it couldn’t have been a coincidence.

My temporary fix: keeping it in low power mode and theatre mode. So far it hasn’t drained as dramatically.

Hopefully they patch it soon!

I’ve tried this but there’s no option to touch the watchOS and delete. Any other suggestions? Thanks

This worked for me too. I deleted the 10.4 update from my storage, then turned auto update off and on from my watch. I then selected to download and install directly from my watch and it worked!