Tell me it isn't so. Just go the watch. Battery life the first two days was under 6 hours. Seriously? I can't walk around with a charger in my pocket. Is this a defective watch or something I have to deal with?
Watch Sport 38mm
My wife's watch had this issue after a couple of days. One day it was at 15% halfway through. The second day she made sure it charged and took an hour workout walk. Ten hours later, it was low battery.
We did a full reset, without restoring from backup (just in case the settings were the issue) and installed no apps. After two hours, it is at 98%.
She is not the debugging type, so I doubt she fill work to figure out what the issue was, but I assume some app was pushing a lot of updates to the watch or something like that.
Your Watch may be fetching too much information from your phone causing the battery to drain. Do you have a lot of apps downloaded? do you get a crazy amount of notifications?
Get a 42mm, larger battery or close open apps on the watch by: Opening the app in question on the Watch, press and hold the side button (below the Digital Crown) until you see the Power Off screen, and then press and hold it again to quit the app and return to the home screen.
Try a reset, restart (restart the phone too) and re-pair. When you pair, choose not to install all apps on the phone (that leaves you with only the Apple apps).
If that doesn't make any difference, call Apple support - you may have a defective watch
I experienced the same for few days, and reset and app uninstallation didn't help. For isolating the problem, I tried to turn off auto on/off function of the watch, and then I found the battery only dropped 2 to 3% per hour - so I guess the battery drain issue is due to my usage problem. After that I turned on the auto on/off function again, and magically the battery drain issue gone... I'm not sure why but you may also try.
MY Apple way battery life has been actually really really good to me and I'm a moderate to heavy user.
i Have the 38mm Apple watch to stainless steel
No solution to the problem, but only to share my experience with the 42mm version:
I've been draining 50% during a normal 12 hour day. That included a 7 mile hike without the iPhone where the steps, mileage, heart rate, etc all worked fine. Once it "found" my iPhone again, the Health Information all synced.
Even on the iPhone 6 Plus, I've gone through "battery saving tips" (e.g., I don't need my email checked every 5 seconds), which perhaps helps my Watch.
I'm still experimenting with the new Watch, but I haven't done anything "out of the box" and I'm using 50% battery per day.
Just FYI for comparison of another new Watch user.
try activate economy mode in settings, iphone watch application, exercise.
The why is that we are on Apple Watch 1.0. There are going to be bugs like this.
Watch battery is only lasting 5 or 6 hours. What can I do?
