Ive owned my Ultra 1 watch a bit over 1 year. Love the watch, absolutely has been awesome. Recently after the update I’ve noticed my watch not keeping a charge and barely lasting a day. Now battery won’t charge past 76%, and life is listed at 89%. Last time it charged to 100% was 9/15/2024.
I would put the recent battery issues 100% on the update. Never an issue before that.
Apple Watch Ultra, watchOS 11
Any chance you have Optimized Charging or Charing Limit enabled on your watch?
About Optimized Battery Charging on your Apple Watch - Apple Support
If you want the watch to charge completely up to 100%, you will have to disable the Optimized Charging Limit which will then charge your watch up to 80% as a first step, and then up to 100% if the usage pattern signals that you need the watch to be at 100% at a certain point.
Otherwise the battery will only be charged up to 80%
My iPhone charges up to 80% during the night and up to 100% just before I usually get up.
As I wear the watch during the night, I charge it if needed before I go to bed up to 100%, so the watch gets never charged up to 80% automatically, although this option is enabled.
My Apple Watch Ultra 2 uses more battery life if I enable the Live Activities during workouts in the settings for the Smart Stack. Yesterday I lost approx. 3% battery, during my 30min Cycling Outdoors workout.
Today, without Live Activities enabled during the day and 30min workout cycling, the usage is back to normal, 18hours after a full charge, 78% battery left, 1.2percent/hour.
I didn’t… went through and changed a ton of settings to get more life. Toggled the optimized charging button and now it’s on.
just finished the last charge and went to 80%. The last charge lasted about 20 hours. The last update is sucking charge!
Apple Watch Ultra only charging to 76% after update
