Watch OS 4.3.1 battery drain

This might help a lot of peoples in here. I accidentally restart my Apple Watch 3 and my battery last 2 days now, before that only 12 hours. Just restart your watch nothing else. Good luck guys. Eric

Same here. I have series 2 and after the last OS update my battery barely makes it through half the day. I have restarted and rebooted the watch nothing works. Hw can I go back to the last version? I used to get almost a full 2 days out this battery.

Same here. Spend all this **** money with Apple (3 phones and 3 watches in the family) and Apple is silent on the watch battery issue that all of a sudden has affected 3 watches after the most recent softupdate.

4.3.1 has about destroyed my watch. Initially was getting 6-7 hours of battery when the only think turned on what step and heart tracking. Doing anything else took it down to less than 5. I wiped the watch and restored from backup. Battery is still not as good, but I can get 12 hours with some other usage and only be down to about 25# remaining.

HOWEVER, I have never been able to get contacts to sync correctly I get just numbers and over for favs). And it loses WiFi constantly so that it’s is worthless for getting text message or making calls unless phone is nearby and then why wouldn’t I just use phone. AVOID 4.3.1 at all cost.

I have a series 3 apple watch and having the same issue after the latest update. My battery would last at least 2 1/2 days before and now it barely lasts 12 hours. What a piece of crap! Come Apple give us a fix soon!

Hey there:

I'm experiencing this issue as well. Hopefully others will decide to follow or post a reply in this thread to give apple support a good idea of the impact this is having on their Apple Watch product and customers. I have a 1st Gen watch, and the battery lasted for a full 20 hours, but now is down to 8 hours or less before hitting 10%. I've reconfigured everything to work at the minimum level possible, but haven't found a good solution.

As a software developer, I understand the need to prioritize help requests depending on the level of urgency and impact, so I'm hoping this is one on which they are working. It would be great if you (Apple Support) could acknowledge whether or not it is on your radar, that we are valued customers, and that there is a plan to resolve the problem soon.

Thanks in advance!

Ah this is ridiculous. I'd found settings that allowed my battery to last until the end of the work day (so 100% discharge from 6am through to 5.30pm) and now Apple have pushed out another update which means the battery runs out even earlier.

This is appalling from Apple. No acknowledgement of our issues on this forum and pushing out updates to silently migrate us all towards newer versions of the watch. Really poor.

Had this EXACT same issue, in fact got to the point where a 38mm series 3 wouldn't take a charge at all anymore, but it did begin with the "Flipping back and forth" you describe. Watch was < 30 days old, apple replaced it. However, battery life on the replacement watch is now doing the exact same thing (1 day ok, next day only lasts 2 hours).

So I am having the same problem. I have done a hard reset and set all settings to save power where possible. I was wondering if anyone else here having this problem is running the beta iOS on my iPhone like I am. Don’t know if this would have anything to do with it. At this point I’m so frustrated I’m looking at any possibilities. Hoping that Apple will come up with a fix. Basically making it not worth having the watch if I can’t use any of the features.

I'm running watchOS 4.3.2 (15U70) on the original 42mm Apple Watch and I'm getting this issue. I could go from 7am to 10pm with 20% remaining on average but in the last week I've been at 0% at 5pm. I didn't notice the issue on 4.3.1. Are the people with battery drain issues on 4.3.1 still having problems on watchOS version 4.3.2?

It appears, from reports on this thread, that resetting the watch isn't helping the battery drain issue. Has anyone tried factory resetting the iPhone? Perhaps the iPhone is asking for too many updates from the watch or something.

I might try that and report back.

Same issue with Series 1. Apple tech ran remote diagnostics and had me return watch for a new one. Same problem with new watch. Obviously not a battery problem. Battery seems to discharge faster as day goes on.

Interestingly, I woke up last night/this morning and noticed my watch rebooting. From what I can tell it hasn’t done an update but my battery is lasted three hours longer today.......still not the all day plus I got before I put this update on.

After seven days of ridiculously short battery life my watch battery suddenly went back to normal.

From battery going to zero from 6am to 5pm, it now can go for a day and a half (still has 25% even well into the night eg. 3am).

It may have been some app interacting with the last watchOS. Can't say which app (or confirm an app was even the culprit) but I deleted a bunch of apps on the iPhone the day before battery life suddenly came back. Hope that helps others.

I have a series 2 and have the same battery issue after the latest update. I even turned off the raise to wake option and still have the battery issue. What’s even more a mystery to me is that after it is charged to 100% and is removed from the charger and laid flat on the dresser overnight (7 hours) it is at 55% when I wake up in the morning. I have to put it back on charger while I get ready for the day. I don’t have any heart rate or those kind of apps active. My watch dies within 13 hours from a full charge.

No beta, running 11.4.1 on phone and 4.3.2 on watch. I haven’t had a single issue with the watch until upgrading my 7+ to a X. It made me erase my watch and pair to new phone. I lost 20% in 4hrs sleeping last night. Force touch is gone, even after resets.