Watch OS 3 Draining Battery Very Quickly

Same problem. After 3 hours this morning my watch said it would be going into Power Reserve. Help!

Been having the same issue but with the Series 1. I bought the original watch on Saturday since Best Buy had a great promotion and was running Watch OS3. my battery was lasting all day pretty much running everything. I exchanged the watch for Series 1 and my batter by 5-6 Pm is 10-20%. I noticed this morning I left my house at 6:45 am with 100% got to work at 7:30am and my battery was already at 90%. it's 3'oclock now and is at 48% after resetting and unpairing the device. Looks like that's been working, I also removed workout from dock. At 11:45 I was at 64% so after 3 hours and 15 mins I went from 64-48% using it and playing around with trying to remove and fix the phone. Hopefully it gets better tomorrow.

I've been trying to troubleshoot this myself. I saw dramatic battery drain after buying and pairing with a new iPhone 7. Given that the high drain rate continues with the watch in airplane more, it doesn't seem like it is attributable to the iPhone, although it could be that the iPhone 7 somehow effects watchOS install.

But, here's a data point for the forum: i start off the day with a morning walk that I track with a workout. The high drain rate (~10-12%/hour) continues after I end the workout. I then tried simply taking the watch off and put it back on (entering the lock code) and it seems that the high drain rate is much abated (now about 3%/hour).

Since I've turned off all third party apps and complications, I am suspecting the workout app as the culprit. It makes sense, because that app uses the HRM, probably a big power user. Maybe someone at Apple can get this info to an engineer?

I'm not sure how to resolve it without a watchOS update. Maybe the 3.1 update will solve this. It could also be that I have a year and a half of workouts in the workout app, and it is burning a lot of CPU sorting it.

Is there any correlation to use of the workout app? (see my note below)

I Must say I had terrible problems with the battery. Yesterday it was draining about 1 percent every five minutes.

THe watch ended up shutting down. I have also had massive battery drain in my iPhone 6.

I had the workout app on background refresh and in the dock. I removed the workout app fro the dock and switched off background refresh. today my watch went through the entire day using only 55%, so massive improvement. My iPhone battery life has also been much better.

i Have just sent a load of data from the watch to Apple, having been asked to gather the data.

hopefully they will find some issue, but the workout app certainly seems implicated in my case!

Hi,

Turning off background update and clear dock apps, put me back on business again! The sunshine is brighter today!

So I went and changed my watch series 1 to Best buy yesterday since it was only 3 days old and my new phone has no issues at all and has everything on. Looks like it was a bad battery or something. I never had a watch before so I cannot say it was working fine with OS 2, I had the watch on me for 1.5 hours already and I'm still in 100%. Last two days just driving to work (30 mins) would drop my batter almost 10% . Good luck everyone and hopefully Apple fixes this battery issue.

How did you disable background update in the Watch? There is a panel for it foe iPhone apps, but unless those are installed on the Watch, I don't think it would affect them.

Glad to see it's not just me. I used to go from 7am to 8pm and have about 50% left, but ever since OS 3 it has dropped incredibly. It's almost 1pm and my battery is at 53%. I have only received two notifications today.

I followed the recommendations to unpair Watch from iPhone.

To be on the safe side, I powered my iPhone down and restarted.

I paired the watch to the iPhone. I adjusted notifications and background apps.

The first day it still seemed like I lost battery power quickly, but it was better. Today, my watch is acting normal again. I re-charged tonight and it still had 41% battery life.

Un-pairing and pairing again worked for me.

I'm still scratching my head as to why people are saying "wait a few days it gets better"? We are not talking about an engine that needs breaking in or software like that in a learning thermostat. I upgraded to ios10 with no issues.

I ended up exchanging my series 1 for the original apple watch running os2. I took it off the charger (at 100%) this morning at 8am. Its now 7:15pm and I just looked down to see 72%!

Clearly there is an issue with os3, hands down.

I'd like to add that I had nearly all battery consuming apps and settings turned off with my series 1 os3 and was recording about a 5% loss roughly every 45 minutes.

Again my os2 has lost 28% battery over 11 hours worth of regular use with ALL the features and settings running.

I am confident Apple will resolve this issue but till then I will be sticking with os2.

I'd like to add I got a call from an Apple rep and I thought that was amazing! At least it shows (to me anyway) that they are trying to keep customers happy and resolve the issue.

The issue is intermittent for sure, so it may seem to others that it is "getting better" because they've not triggered it.

I've been able to stop the user-drain a few ways. One was take it off my wrist, then put it back on. Another was to put to on the charger for just a few seconds. The workout app seems to be involved. For reasons I don't understand, the dock seems to be involved as well. For no reason I can tell, the watch put up "Now Playing" on the dock. I never use that app, and it is deleted from the dock on the iPhone companion app.

I contacted Apple support, and my rep claimed to have passed all the info along and responded "hopefully we will have a resolution in the form of a new watchOS update." Seems to me they rather know about this.

MMine had been causing grief a few days after the update with rapid loss of 7/8% percent an hour. After removing workout from dock and restarting watch it was back to its old self of only 2/3% an hour but this morning I wake up, take it off charge and its lost 8% in a single hour. This is not good and shows the watch cannot be relied upon. I have rebooted the watch and will see how it gets on. I am sure the workout app is the culprit somehow, apple QA once again questionable

Hi

Since os 3 my watch is fine still have 50% charge after 14 hours

Make an appointment at apple store to have battery check.

Cheers

Brian

Brian

It may be worth doing so, but given that it seems to be an intermittent occurrence for some, and in nearly all cases reported here, only occurred since os3, it is much more likely to be software related. It is quite a big coincidence that several users watch batteries suddenly develop a problem at exactly the time os3 was installed.

several users experience seem to point to the dock and the workout app. if I launch the workout app it definitely triggers a problem until I restart the watch.

APple are clearly thinking there is an issue, since they are gathering data from users to work out what has gone wrong.

HOpefully they will issue a fix soon, but imho workout app + doc = very short battery life!