After installing watchOS 11 on my Series 8 watch the battery life has been very poor. Hasn't been 12 hours yet since I did it and I can already tell that there's an issue. Overnight the watch will use about 10% of battery. Last night it used over 30% and used another 5% while I was up for about 45 minutes.
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Apple Watch Series 8, watchOS 11
I think I have a solution for this:
I have a Series 8. Battery health reports 80% capacity (after about 2 years).
Following my upgrade to watchOS 11.01, I was running out of power around 12-13 hours into the day. This was even worse if I had a workout (I sometimes train for 3 hours in a single day.) On any regular day, my battery was down to 50% by lunch.
I did the following this week,
which has improved things a lot:
I have done this in the past and it seems to clear up a lot of issues, particularly with power management.
Yesterday, with no workouts, I finished the day with about 25% left (at 14-15 hours). So far today, I am at 50% after 8 hours and one workout. I have another workout for two hours this evening, but I should make it to 16 hours without going to low power mode, if I’m not mistaken.
So - unpair and re-pair, loading from the backup!
I have AW6 Cellular and faced issue of battery draining by 50% since installation of watchOS 11.
After disabling “Smart Stack” the issue seem to have resolved.
This might be helpful,
I was experiencing the same battery drain. Until I turned off music recognition.
Go to settings -> privacy -> microphone -> turn off ‘music detection’.
P.S. I just tried this and I’ll keep you alle updated Incase the battery drain returns.
SOLVED!!!
You need to COMPLETLY UNPAIR your watch and set it up AS NEW!!
NOT FROM BACKUP!!
I've also disabled the Live Stack... Battery back to normal
@EmmaTheFireman,
Did you already force restart your watch? This helped in my case, since I also had the feeling that the battery drain came back. Did this yesterday before charging the Ultra2 again, now 1.1percent/hour instead of 1.4% with the same usage pattern.
You have updated not long ago that means that the update is still indexing in the background and this can cause a temporary worsening in battery life . See if the issue subsides in a few days
I’ve been experiencing the same problem with my AW7.
Disabling Live Activities seems to have solved it.
After two weeks of trying different solutions, the only automatic updates disabling on watch and on phone (watch app) + hard restart both fixed the issue. Solution taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrNT6scgAXo
Turning off "Allow live activities" completely fixed it.
My issue seems to have been fixed after I disabled live activities and restarted the watch. Also Watch Ultra.
WheelieNick wrote:
You have updated not long ago that means that the update is still indexing in the background and this can cause a temporary worsening in battery life . See if the issue subsides in a few days
How long does it take it index??? Over 24 hours for an itty bitty tiny watch?
Yeah, I noticed the same with my watch I came across while researching the issue 15 Apple Watch Battery Saving Tips on another thread, and it mentioned low power mode too. I tried the low power mode and the battery drain has improved for me as well. Worth sticking with it until the next update comes through. It’s been super frustrating, though!
Any third party app. Apps need to be updated to comply with the new Watch OS. You might have old apps not updated in months or years by their developer. This apps may be less efficient in regard to battery consumption.
so I got up at 6:45 with 80% charge, now it's 18:55 at 50%. Turning off Live Activities did the trick
Turning off live activities didn’t seem to help my battery drain since the update but I read on another thread turning off photo syncing under settings/photos might help and it seems to be helping right now. I never look at photos on my watch anyway.
🤔, my go-to solutions is often a force restart……Once with an Apple watch 3 completely restoring the watch fixed a similar issue.
Best of luck!✌🏻
Apple Watch battery drain after watchOS 11 Update
