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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
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!
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.
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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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!
Well well well...
I have been on the RC which is the same build for ‘about’ a week
And so have I and not experienced the same issues. Look to third party apps you have installed.
I don't run betas from Apple...
Jeff Donald wrote:
And so have I and not experienced the same issues. Look to third party apps you have installed.
Third-party apps OTEHR than Apple's approved app developers???
Only Apple TPA
Multiple posters are replying and reporting similar experiences. I was responding to another community member. Sorry for the confusion.
I have the same issue with my Apple Watch series 8. I was getting roughly a day and a half before hitting 10% and now it only takes about 12 hours.
Battery life on my Apple Watch series 8 since 11 update has been dying before 1pm and would last well over 15-16 hours.
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
🤔, 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!✌🏻
Unfortunately not for me :(
Apple Watch battery drain after watchOS 11 Update
