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This past week, particularly the past 3-4 days I’ve noticed that my Apple Watch’s battery runs low after I’ve worn it for 10-11 hours. I’ve not had that issue before with this model watch (A2774, series 8, 45 mm, stainless with GPS + cellular). What’s going on?
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Why do we have to go thru all that?? Apple software should solve the issue themselves.
I have tried unpairing and wiping (resetting and deleting) my watch. It had no impact. Battery going from 100 to 4 in 2 hours. I went to Apple Store and was told the diagnostic showed nothing wrong, so the technician could not help. He did tell me that when the max battery life gets to 79 (mine is at 86) Apple will offer a new watch for $100.
I have done this 3 times now with no change in battery drain. Apple Store says they can do nothing. Apparently the watch is dead to them at 79% max battery and so I’m almost there, so there’s nothing we can do, said the Apple Store rep. He did offer to send my current model 8 to Apple service for $349. They wouldn’t fox mine but they would send me a new 8.
My series 5 A2095 only received the 10.6.1 update two days ago (Canada). My battery was rapidly decreasing to under 50% from 100% charge after wearing for 3 hours and tracking a fitness workout. The software was slow and unresponsive as well. I began to think this was apples typical way of forcing you to buy their new product. I tried what was suggested here, unpairing and erasing/ restoring to factoring settings. After about 12 hours my watch has retuned to normal. Thank you for the recommendation.
I have the Apple Watch 5 and my watch USED to last two days and now I have to charge it every day. People will say "Well, Apple Watch 5 is very old, so maybe your battery health is affecting it." Nope. This is a replaced watch with a new battery that is at 100% health.
I have most things turned off like: wifi, location, screen dimmed to last notch, none of the health features turned on, none of the exercise features turned on, no apps running in background except messages and phone calls, I have no apps installed, handwashing off, heartbeat off. I have everything on bare minimum.
I am hoping that Apple will take notice and release a patch for this. Sadly, the Apple Watch series 5 is no longer supported when it comes to WatchOS 11, but they should still update it because of the bad battery life. I hope.
5 hour battery life after update
Thank you to those who suggested a complete erasure and reset, repair (the terminology may not be correct, but basically starting all over). The battery life issue seems to be addressed.
Is there a fix for this? I’ve tried everything except resetting my phone. I have series 8, 45mm with GPS and cellular and an iPhone 15 ProMax
watchOS 10.6.1 battery draining fast
