Apple Watch 11 is charging slowly and requires a restart
My 2-month-old Apple Watch 11 46mm charges slowly (20-25% in an hour). If I power it off/on it returns to charging normally (80-100% in an hour). This behavior began about a week ago. I bought it in early Nov and had to replace it in early Dec when it exhibited the same behavior. At that time Apple support advised me to take it in for repair after reviewing the activity log and performing some other remote actions. Best Buy merely exchanged the watch (good for them!) and everything was fine until a few days ago when the watch began acting up again. AI (Claude) reports no known issues of this nature and advised the restart fix, which worked but only for a few days. I’m not too keen on having to restart my watch every couple of days, nor have I ever had to do it before with earlier watch versions. If anyone has some info about this as a known or emerging problem, I’d love to hear about it. The behavior suggests maybe a SW issue, but then again …
PS. As a point of reference, I charged watch tonight for about an hour and it went from 41% to 63%. I restarted it about 20 minutes ago and put it back on the charger and it is now past 90%. So, barely 20% in an hour, then over 30% in around 15 minutes.
PPS. I’m using the original cable and a 20W Apple USB-C charger. No 3rd party components. Everything is clean.
