Apple Watch battery drain after watchOS 11 Update

Yep can confirm with my Ultra 2 from last year. I am no power-user so i had roughly between two and a half and three days of use. After the WatchOS 11 update it lowered to under two days. It is still good but in comparison to before it is annoying.

I had no issues with battery drain until updating to 11.0.1 last night. My battery was at 95% at 11pm and dropped to 17% by 7am. Prior to the update I would have got at least 20 hours from that charge. This is terrible

"Unfortunately no press/media sites are writing about this issue :("

No surprise there. It's no wonder most of us have moved on from the legacy Apple product media in 2024. I personally find the majority of them to be a waste of space and not worth my time.

I'm a diabetic and use my Apple Watch Series 9 to directly monitor my Blood Sugar numbers from my Dexcom G7 CGM sensor. I don't have the luxury of being able to "Turn Off" previously used features and settings in order to return what for me is a "medical device" back to it's previously "normal" performance values as a result of a Ham Fisted WatchOS update! 😵‍💫

And according to my most reliable sources like Zollotech and others on YouTube, we won't be seeing the next scheduled iOS/WatchOS update until October 24th and possibly later than that!

And at the end of the day... What is this current battery stress going to do to our Watch battery's long term health? I just noticed that my 1 year old Series 9 has recently dropped to 94% battery health from what had been a solid 100% as recently as last month! 🙄

Just spent close to an hour troubleshooting with Apple support. No resolution.

Ive had all notifications disabled, no Bluetooth accessories, live activities disabled, always on disabled, and my ultra 2 is dying in under 18 hours with no usage.

Pretty amazing… I unpaired the watch, reinstalled everything as a “new” watch…‘and it worked flawlessly for about a week. Then one day I took it off the charger at 100%, went for a short run (about 5 miles) and when I got home it was at 60%?!

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Series 9 GPS - I used to get about two days on one charge. Now, I don’t get one day and that’s with practically all the features shut off.

* Updated to 11.0.1

* Erased all content and setup as new

* All turned off: Live Activities, Handoff, Always on, Hey Siri, Background app updates

* Battery health 100%

Didn’t exercise, listen to music through it, or anything else and I watched yesterday while it dropped a percent every 5-10 minutes. WTF could it possibly have left to do to burn that much battery? This is how Apple’s software treats customers of a device that’s a year old?! Is this another iPhone 6 batterygate? What is the point of adding these new features if the watch is dead all the time?!

I turned off live activities and rebooted watch and phone. For a few days it looked like the watch was better BUT as soon as I actually had a very active day cycling the battery drained really fast much faster than it had in the past.

It is like APPLE is destroying Apple watch not unlike Google destroyed Fitbit.

I am really disappointed and have not seen any real solution from APPLE.

I also have a Series 9 Apple watch which is a year old and 3 months.

Lately all I do is disable features. Unfortunately, the same battery drain persists.

I spoke with Apple Support they ran their diagnostics and found nothing.

Up until the updates I was fine with the Apple watch.

Now I am wondering if it is worth it at all.

The big drains show if you exercise so telling people not to use their phone, or not to do this and not to do that means you bought an overpaid watch only and even a Timex would have a battery that lasts longer if all you get to use this for is a watch!

So turning off features and not using your phone or not using it for distance walking or distance cycling seems kind of silly or is an admission that Apple has destroyed the value of an Apple watch and its time to find an alternative to Apple?

Seems Apple owes us better and a real solution instead of just selling updates and features that are useless in light of batteries which cannot support them.

I am pleading with Apple to respond.

I have yes used the feedback form with no response.

As indicated I called Apple Support and have no solutions. They act like they are surprised by the issue which says they are not hearing any of us.

And so have I and not experienced the same issues. Look to third party apps you have installed.

The watch drain is across the board with the Ultra 2 draining by mid morning after charging all night as well as my spouses watch 6 and daughters watch 8

Apple Watch Ultra, Watch OS 11.0. Went to bed with a fully charged watch and by 11 am this morning it was down to 10%. I was getting a solid 2 days prior to the update.

Yep. Same. I was always getting a full 24 hours and then some. Not now.

i don’t have any 3rd party apps.

I’ve turned off live activities.

I don’t store music or photos.

it’s not the beta

I’ve rebooted.

come on Apple!

I tried the smart stacks.

It worked for one day and my battery seemed to be normal but now today after charging it overnight, I just put on my watch and it’s down to 75% after just being off the charger for 10 minutes..

Guess I’ll go back to Low Power Mode and wait for the update

Update - Apple Watch Ultra - Used to get 2 days. Went to sleep with watch on at 100% - Woke up 6 hours later it was 89, 2 hours after being awake - 85 - same pattern as yesterday. Awake it is using roughly 2-4 percent per hour. Overall a full day using 70+ percent. A far cry form the 2 says my Ultra got before the update