Today I've had my Apple watch on for 16 hours and my battery now shows 56%. Only two days ago, the watch was dead off after 12 hours. I wouldn't be shocked by a variation from day to day of 5 or 10%, but his is closer to 100%. What could be causing that? (Yes, I've got all the usual batter hogs turned off: aways on display, background app refresh, etc.)
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If cellular, and you leave your iiPhone at home, and you are in an area with weak cellular signals, the cellular radio has to expend more power to keep in touch with the cell towers.
If other times you are in areas with stronger cellular signals, the cellular radio does not need to work as hard.
If your iPhone is near, then the cellular radio is not used, and the Apple Watch uses the iPhone's radios.
As others have mentioned, doing things that involve activating the GPS radio more frequently, such as using a walking, running, bicycle exercise app.
If cellular, and you leave your iiPhone at home, and you are in an area with weak cellular signals, the cellular radio has to expend more power to keep in touch with the cell towers.
If other times you are in areas with stronger cellular signals, the cellular radio does not need to work as hard.
If your iPhone is near, then the cellular radio is not used, and the Apple Watch uses the iPhone's radios.
As others have mentioned, doing things that involve activating the GPS radio more frequently, such as using a walking, running, bicycle exercise app.
Which Apple Watch do you use?
Did you check the Battery Health in Settings/Battery?
I found, that longer workouts drain the battery more than in previous watchOS versions.
My watch updated to watchOS 11.5 yesterday, maybe Apple did improve the battery life, compared to watchOS 11.4
RcktGrl wrote:
My watch was charged and updated to 18.5 when I went to sleep. Woke up and it was down to 40%. Normally I can make it 22 hours before needing to charge. Why is the battery draining so fast after the update?
If your watch updated overnight, you may see decreased battery life the next day. That's normal. It's doing stuff behind the scenes. It should settle down in a day or so.
The current version of watchOS is 11.5. 18.5 is the current version of iOS.
My watch was charged and updated to 18.5 when I went to sleep. Woke up and it was down to 40%. Normally I can make it 22 hours before needing to charge. Why is the battery draining so fast after the update?
RcktGrl wrote:
My watch was charged and updated to 18.5 when I went to sleep. Woke up and it was down to 40%. Normally I can make it 22 hours before needing to charge. Why is the battery draining so fast after the update?
Read the post above yours from Rudegar.
you are aware that you are not speaking to apple or people in any way affiliated with apple right?
these forums are user helping other users like yourself, it's sort of going
to a physical apple store and asking other customers there advice
if you wish to get more than other users experiences or the likes then you should likely
reach out to their official support channels
And or
Contact - Official Apple Support
And or
Contact - How to Contact Us - Apple
Or
Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple
or provide them with feedback using their feedback channels
the batt time depend on the activities it has to record, it's sensors and gps and all such things the more it has to do the less time the batt last
Complications on the watch face are at a minimum. There was zero change in the watch face or settings from before the upgrade. All I did was go to sleep. This should not drain the watch battery.
Battery is not listed under setting in the Watch App on my phone nor in the Watch itself. More information is required to find this setting. Search does not find it.
Why is my Apple Watch battery life varying so drastically day to day?
