Apple Watch battery draining fast after watchOS 11 Update

What I want to know is what is Apple doing about this? You’ve had enough problems with the 18.2 on iPhones, but draining the battery on your watch you rely on constantly? Apple got way out over its skis and trust me, I’m having to rethink using Apple products. So tell us Apple, what are you going to do?

Clearly there is still a problem. My Series 6 is at iOS 11.2 (22S101), and battery "health" is at 93%--well above the point where Apple says it should be replaced. I periodically get a notice that optimized charging limits the charge to 80%, and sometimes after sitting on the charger overnight, it is at 80%. Other times it's at 100% or some level of charge between 80% and 100%. I'm guessing that at some point, charging is cut off by the watch, and at that point, the battery begins to discharge, since the watch is still turned on. Today, I slept later than usual, and when I put the watch on it was at 76%. After I spent some time looking up the iOS version and battery health, it was down to 67%. I have low power mode turned off.

I am convinced there is still something wonky with power management with the Apple watch operating system beginning with iOS version 11. My wife's Series 5 stopped updating with iOS version 10, and she has no problems with the battery charge, even though the health is down to 88%. I had planned to get her a new watch for Christmas (which she would pick out, of course), but the battery issue got in the way, and she selected a new camera instead. (Too bad. The camera cost 8-10 times as much as the watch would have!)

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I have the same issue. Watch (Apple Watch Ultra Gen 1) a week ago would last for ~1 1/2 days on a single charge. Now, even after removing all apps, notifications, etc., basically making it a dumb watch, it is draining in 5-6 hours. I purchased the watch just over a year ago.

At this price point, this is beyond unacceptable and will likely be the final straw for me on Apple Watch. I have been a faithful brand loyal customer for more than a decade and the upgrade degradation is just infuriating.

This is just after I committed to move from PC to Mac… what a roller coaster of customer adoration and disappointment.

I think it is absolutely ridiculous that we keep jumping through Apple hoops to make our devices functional again after these last product updates. These updates have thrown my phone, iPad and watch into limited functionality. Instead of acknowledging and apologizing for all the issues, issuing correction updates, or even warning people about them, they stonewalled. These updates were absolutely not fully tested before issuing. They could and should have issued them in smaller updates rather than trying to make a big splash in the tech world. They made a big splash alright with one huge belly flop.

I think it is absolutely ridiculous that we keep jumping through Apple hoops to make our devices functional again after these last product updates. These updates have thrown my phone, iPad and watch into limited functionality. Instead of acknowledging and apologizing for all the issues, issuing correction updates, or even warning people about them, they stonewalled. These updates were absolutely not fully tested before issuing. They could and should have issued them in smaller updates rather than trying to make a big splash in the tech world. They made a big splash alright with one huge belly flop.

I’ve given up I won’t buy an Apple Watch till this is sorted. I’ve done the un pair wipe Bla Bla Bla once it worked but couple updates on my s7 basically charging it twice a day now but this is where it gets interesting my s3 with 80% or 78% battery not updating lasts longer than my s7 😂😂😂😂😂

I have done all the recommended procedures ( restarting and repairing the watch) to fix this problem but it seems it didn't fix it. After doing the restarting and repairing the watch I was at 85% from 95% battery power. In 3 minutes I went from 85% to 79% and all I did was sit. At this rate I will be at 0% in less than 2 hours. I want to know what apple is doing to resolve this problem. This had been going on far too long.

If you mean going to Smart Stack and disabling “allow live activities”, as it’s the only option there, then yeah, it doesn’t solve anything unfortunately. Maybe there’s something else that’s affecting it in 11

Same here. Nothing has fixed it. The watch is now unusable for me.

Could just be Apple trying to move (force) existing customers onto newer products! Surely there’s gotta be some ethical business practice guidelines Apple is breaching here….if the above is true.

As helpful as your reply is trying to be, we’ve ALL waited, then unpaired. Then reset. Then manually updated. Then re-paired. Then waited again.

We’ve all done all the things many times and the problems with the battery persist. All Apple does is look the other way and say “oh no have you turned it off and turned it back on again?!? Did you clear the cache and cookies?”

SOMETHING is causing this issue. It’s not a fever dream. It doesn’t help that there are NO diagnostic tools we can access to find out what’s going on.

“What’s using battery the most” on the watch should be a standard application for watchOS. Nope.

You are absolutely correct. Apple tells us to jump through hoops a mess of hops to unpair the watch and iPhone. I am not sure this is a solution. Furthermore, they did something in their massive update that caused the issue. If they still don’t know what they did they need to find out and correct it. What would prevent them from doing it again and again in updates? Are they just going to tell us to jump through hoops more hoops? They cost wayyyyy too much for this irresponsible inconvenience.

These kind of replies that pretend Apple support is listening to us, but nicely trying to say that we’re the problem do not help.

This is not a I updated last night problem. This is an every single day and after repairing and repairing and repairing several times, this is an ongoing problem.

dont just regurgitate an easy answer. Its belittling. Do better apple.

I agree @JustJC, why make a website and community for people who need help if you (the brand and product maker) does not read and help the customers with their problem. People are relying on the "community" for their answers, when they should be relying on the one making the product. I still will stay with Apple anyway despite what happens.

I've had my watch for about three weeks and after the update, my battery does the same thing. This morning I left my house (7 am) with 100% and by 9 am, I was at 25%. I've done all the steps and nothing is working. For the amount of money we pay for these watches, we shouldn't have to deal with these hassles.

I’ve recently tried turned off both options in live stacks (a fix I’ve seen for some on here) didn’t work for me.

on my s7 I’ve also tried mobile data off WiFi off. And battery still horrendously also noticed since the battthas gone thru 100’s more cycles I’m now at 79%battery health

I give up not buying a new battery for my stainless s7 if this battery drain continues and not buying a new one mate has a 8 and 9 and he has the same issue

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