Watch os3 series 1 dead battery by afternoon

I have the same issue. My Apple Watch's (original version) battery used to last all day, no problem. I'd have 20-30% battery left at the end of the day.

Since watchOS 3, it's been getting insanely worse. Some days the watch is dead by 5 PM, even with me doing nothing on it other than checking messages as they come in and the time occasionally.

I've Googled and tried the suggestions I've found:

- removed watch faces that I don't use. (I've only ever used one, not sure why so many were active.)

- removed as many apps as possible from the dock.

- turn off background syncing.

That only made a small difference. My watch still doesn't last the day on watchOS 3.

Apple, are you listening?

I have/had the same issue

- After upgrading to OS3 and getting an iPhone 7+, my watch would lose 15% per hour. Start the day at 100%, and be dead by lunch

- Spoke to Apple, and we unpaired/repaired the watch. No help

- Apple sent me a new watch (thank you Apple Care!) and set it up as a new watch (no backup restore). No good, and it got worse. The watch started shutting down and freezing on the Apple logo after 2 days

- Had a Genius Bar appointment this afternoon, and they were limited on what they can do. They recommended that I leave the watch to be sent back to Apple to diagnose (3 to 5 days)

- In the meantime, I sent a error log from a back-up (as a zip file) to Apple so that the Engineers can take a long look at the data. I will know more on this next week

- The Genius Bar associates (yea, 2 were working on it) had a recommendation

- Unpair the watch

- Completely erase the watch

- Restore the phone to factory settings and redownload all of the firmware

- Restore the phone from a back-up (alternate is a complete reinstall, which was my last resort)

- Repair the watch as a "new watch" and do not load any apps besides what comes with it

- Do not load any phone apps until the watch has tested out as "good" for a few days

I am happy to report that the watch is now only using 1% per hour with minimal use (no exercise)

Entire process took less than 2 hours

The theory is that since the watch gets the firmware from the phone, my OS3 download/update on the phone was bad. That was transferred to the watch and caused all of the problems. It could have been my process, or Apple could have had a bad file out there

I hope this works, and post if you try it with success yourself?

Day 2 after the "fix" = NO good. The watch drains 8-10% per hour

Still looking for a fix that will last

I wonder if the issue is caused by specific apps? I'm completely speculating here, but perhaps certain apps that were designed for watchOS 2 are causing battery issues with watchOS 3 and that's why some of us are having these problems but others aren't?

I sure wish someone from Apple would reply to this thread.

Doubtful, since I wipe and reloaded the watch with only the factory apps

Ah, right.

What's Apple telling you now?

Sent them an error log from the computer a few days ago, and was finally able to send one from the watch a few hours ago. They sent me an app to put on the watch, but it would not load. The engineers are looking into this, and watching our comments. No news yet, but they are aware and want to fix it quickly

I will talk with them tomorrow (spoke for a while this evening)

Thanks for the update. Hopefully they figure it out soon. Please post back with any progress.

Did you ever figure this out? My watch lasts about 8 hours, sometimes more (if its not connected to my phone at all and is searching for it) mostly less (around 6 hours). Very frustrating. I updated it as soon as the new OS3 came out, and all of a sudden, in the last week, without changing anything, it lasts as long as a remote control car did back in the day. 😟

Yeah, I've had to remove, essentially, all functionality from my watch, in order to gain an hour or two to my watch's battery life, which makes it 8 hours.. at most. Ever figure this out?

For starters: I have a 42mm original Apple watch sport- Watch OS3 (about one month old);

iPhone 6S Plus- iOS 10

My apple watch lasts about 6-8 hours.. It really depends.

I actually find that it lasts longer if I turn bluetooth off on my phone, and the watch merely searches for my phone all day. This makes me think that the problem may lie with iOS10, rather than WatchOS3.

Here's a list of things I've done.

1. I unpaired it, and booted it as new

2. I added zero apps to it

3. I get no notifications from anything

4. No functions are enabled, at all.

5. No complications on it

6. No background app refresh

7. Nothing on the memory that I can delete

8. Zero docks

9. Brightness is lowest

10. Wake screen settings on minimum.

11. Basically, name a function, I made it as small as possible or just turned it off or deleted it if I could.

12. Even had an apple chat person do a diagnostics thingy with me to determine whether the battery is just f***ed, but they said its A.O.K. after doing all of this, I figured this might by the one area

Essentially, my watch is a useless hunk of metal on my wrist, is able to last about 6-8 hours when connected to my phone, doing nothing. It lasts about ~10 hours with it doing nothing at all.

Anyone have any idea on what the **** I should do?

Are the Beta updates any good?

Try temporarily turning off location services on your iPhone. My iPhone 7 was having issues with location services and made my 32mm Watch drain it's battery at a rate of more than 10% per hour.

One thing that I noticed when troubleshooting the Watch was my Usage time and Standby time were nearly the same. It was essentially telling me that my Watch was constantly in use, even though I was barely using it. Once I got the iPhone 7 issue resolved, the Watch battery life (and usage time) was back to normal.

Spoke yesterday, and no help

On the phone again right now running more diagnostics

More to come

Hey guys! I have a fix! Its different than I expected!

So, I've been on the phone with apple engineers, in chat with engineers, and met with a couple of genies and an engineer at the apple store in Chicago. After multiple people all looking at my diagnostics and to no avail what the drainage of my battery is, this one kinda random guy working there, and interested in the problem suggested a new idea after we all agreed that it seemed like the actual iPhone was the source of the problem:

FIX: On my iPhone, running iOS10 > Settings > General > Reset > 1. Reset All Settings (this will cause you to have to tweak all of the settings and lose your wallpaper, kinda annoying) 2. Reset Network Settings (wifi and other stuff will be lost).

DO A BACK-UP BEFORE YOU DO THIS.

Of course, they had me do it all on my own, because they couldn't tell me that I had to do it, but, it worked. My watch was blowing through 8-12% of my battery life every hour, but since I did this, 3 hours ago, I've lost 6% of my battery. 🙂 This is also after installing a bunch of apps, and re-enabling background app refresh and notifications too!!