Apple Watch battery draining fast after watch OS 11.5 update

So I found out how to find when the update was done. It was the 17th of May so it had 10 full days to

catch up with completing the update, synching and indexing. All of that talk is nonsense. It needed help to complete.

If you want to look back go to the health App on the iphone. I went into Steps and then right to the bottom

to show all data - When you view one of the many samples in a day it'll show what device and OS version captured the data. This way I could see at 2am I apparently took 16 steps (Toilet?) on Software version 11.3.1 and at 9:55am it was another sample of 312 steps taken on Software version 11.5 so it did the update at some stage of the morning (I might have forced it while doing its morning charge).

So to summarise - Anyone who says "Oh just wait a few days, it'll resolve itself" doesn't know what they are talking about. 10 days on modern hardware and it was still running like garbage.

Ouch - Just restarted - Noticed after restarting my battery from taking it off the charger at 9am is already down to 89% by 10:20am. Not used it at all for anything - Just worn. We'll see if the restart helps at all. Otherwise I'll unpair and repair it next.

It has been 2-3 weeks since the last update for iWatch and iPhones. My Ultra (2 years old) is on day 3. I have 63 hours of use, with 24% battery remaining. So, I could easily go another 12+ hours. I have had 2 workouts, plus other activities. I do keep the watch on low power. I wear it 24hours a day so, I love not having to charge so often. In the past I have experienced less than 24 hours of use. Crazy!!!

Yea same here! I have the AWU1 and the battery is bipolar, I can get two days for awhile and than the next 6 months I barely get a day and I have been using my watch minimal nowadays.. I still track sleep and listen to media like podcast(Apple podcast) and Apple Music and it runs down like normal but if I don’t mess with my watch and just have it on my wrist it’s crazy how the battery just rundown like that and I’ve even unpaired and re paired with iPhone and contacted Apple and of course they say my battery is functioning normally after a diagnostic test through the privacy section on iPhone.. It’s like I can clearly see there’s an issue here but of course Apple and their infinite wisdom lol. Sorry for the rant 🤪🕺

Coming back to this I had similar issues with the update to 26. Reading that maintenance is done while charging I gave it quite a few nights on the charger for 9 hours overnight rather than wearing to bed and my battery life since 26 is bad. Do a couple of tracked walks and it'll be too low to wear overnight where previously I wore it all day, did at least one tracked exercise and wore it to bed and it'd be around 20% when I woke and I'd charge it quickly.

After many many nights charging overnight I started trying to use it as I did and again its struggling to get through the night without going dead flat in the early hours so last night I again unpaired and repaired so we'll see if like 11.5 that fixes it or whether 26 has killed battery life. Its a not very old Series 9 and it shouldn't be unusable for sleep tracking already.

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Sometimes when I take my watch from the charger I notice that after about 20 minutes wear. The battery is draining from 100% to 94%!!!

In just 20 minutes!

The rest of the day is fine. But in the afternoon suddenly my watch is draining realy fast with the result that, when i go to bed, the wacth is almost empty. Maybe 14%!!

Sometimes less and sometimes more.

Realy crazy.....!!

I recently updated my Ultra 1 and just placed on the charger with 18% remaining. The last time I charged it was Saturday evening, 60 hours ago. I did 2 workouts and a couple of walks. I hope this is the new norm. Because, in the past I have had the battery drain in less than 24 hours

Mines is doing the same thing. Have all notifications turned off. Brightness down and even do low power mode. I can charge it to 100% and an hour later without doing anything it’s down to 50% and overnight it’s alot worse. I wake up to 20%. \

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I still have the same problem.

It's frustrating.

But it becomes more frustrating....

My 11 year old son found my Apple Watch "zero". About 10 years old that watch.

He asked if he could use it.

I thought that that watch wasn't able to work. But the opposite is true.

After installing the watch for him he could wear the watch a full day and still had 32% battery percentage left!!!

And my watch just 8%!!!

How is that possible you think!

Every day it has more battery left compared to my watch (6).

Maybe I have to consider that old watch again of by another brand....

I have also noticed a drop in battery life since applying 11.5 last week. I also have an Apple Watch SE.

my S9LTE got full recharged

i drain about 10-15% per hour

how could I survives?

Same problem since watchOS 11.5, i need to charge my Series 8 cellular twice times per day.

I already removed all unnecessary apps, and notifications.