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!
Same issue with 1 year old SE. Apple Store had no clue..100% at 8:30 this morning, now at 3:15 pm, 10% doing literally nothing on the watch. They didn’t seem too concerned because their watches weren’t having issues. It’s driving me crazy! I’ve tried all the suggested fixes: unpair and repair, completely reset the watch. Nothing has helped with the exception on one day this week, it held charge all day. Then the next day, right back to the same problem!
I may have to give up on my Apple Watch 9. I can’t get more than 10-11 hours of battery out of it since I switched to OS11. That makes it totally useless to me. I turned off live activities, but that didn’t help. I am going on a trip in 7 days so I will need a different — non-Apple — watch.
My Watch8 and wife’s Watch9 battery have been getting OBLITERATED since the warchOS11 update. Doesn’t make it through 18 hours without dying. Used to get to 48+ hours before. Hopefully Apple addresses this ASAP.
Upgraded to a cellular watch this year to be reachable on outdoor runs. I don’t even think the watch will last on a “long” run. A half hour run kills nearly 30% of the charge. I’ve resorted to downloading the music, run plan, and turning the always on screen off. Still burning 25-30% battery in a half hour. Hopefully this is a software issue and not a cellular watch issue…
received a new Apple Watch 10 today
charged it
on my wrist for 15minutes and the battery drained 10%!
contacted support; they then explained to me that batteries are suppose to drain when in use
like, seriously?!
this is the worst experience I’ve have with apple
Think I’m ready to leave the Apple ecosystem
they’re so obsessed with AI they can’t even fix the software issues they have
worst customer service ever
Sadly my watch doesn’t power on anymore, it keeps draining battery and now after the battery is on 0% the watch doesn’t turn on, even keeping on charge for a day.
If someone know how to solve. Keeps on the charge screen when I connect to the adapter, but doesn’t boot up.
Series 9 Celullar.
Yes I have noticed this too on my Apple Watch Se 2 cellular I have gotten it in November of 2023 and i have lost alot of battery before it could survive the entire day and night but now it can't it dies before i sleep and my battery capacity is at 85% maybe Apple when they give the new update will fix this
I didn't even notice a battery drain problem until 11.01. I always charge my series 9 around 5:30 PM every night. It's one of my reminders.
That evening charge would normally get me through the next 24 hours where I would charge it again the following day at 5: 30 PM where the remaining charge was usually between 15% and 20% remaining.
I just happened to glance at my watch battery status this morning at around 10:15 AM and it was down to 12%! 😳 I don't know what the heck is going on but I haven't changed anything on my watch and that is some serious battery drainage going on right there! 🙁 😠 👎
I updated my AW9 to 11.0.1 and turned off Live Activities but my watch is still draining power like never before. To add insult to injury it’s repeatedly asking for permission to use Location for Weather and Maps.
I’ve updated, restarted both watch and iPhone multiple times, turned off live activities, used multiple chargers… still draining at least 2-3x faster than the previous version.
this is a big problem now, I can’t even get a full day with an Apple Watch Ultra 2.. used to get 2.5 days easy
Well. Has anyone come up with the actual cause yet? My watch usually shuts down in the afternoon now after charging all night. NEVER used to do that before I upgraded the OS’s on the watch and phone. My Apple Watch 8 is about ready to hit the junk pile.
I've been seeing the same battery drain from apple watchOS 11 and 11.0.1, I have a series 6 AW. Today was especially bizarre, I noticed this morning around 10am it was at 10%, it was charged the previous evening around 6 to 8 pm. The screenshot shows a drain dump probably close to 9am. Really strange. Maybe I now have a battery issue?
Have a series 6 with great battery life until recently. I thought it was some odd app or something else. Even unpaired and reset and started from scratch but still same issue - a 5-6% discharge per hour overnight!
Until I stumbled upon this discussion. Glad its not just “my issue” but also disappointing to see apple’s QA processes and general quality going down the drain. Battery drain test is one of the most obvious meta QA tests to be conducted for every watch update!
Personnellement je déteste watchos 10 et 11.2 AAPLE remets la personnalisations de nos applications j’en ais marre de votre système bloquer depuis 2023 vos montres pue la demer vous avait toujours pas compris qu’ont veux WatchOS 9 nous !!!
It seems that we’re back at it regarding battery drain. The current OS version 11.1 is failing, and battery life has returned to the same patterns. This is unacceptable. They should have found a lasting solution for this issue way back.
Apple Watch battery drain after watchOS 11 Update
