Watch OS 4.3.2 Chews up the battery life

I have the same problem with a Watch 2 -- mid afternoon, I'll check battery status and it's at 80%. Half an hour later, it's at 38%! Let it go, and in another hour or less I get a power reserve warning. Put it on a charger to get it back above 60% or so.

Prior to the watchOS update, I'd go all day long and when I put it on the charger at night, it would be between 60% and 70% charged.

This seems to happen to mine mid-afternoon; not sure what's going on, but it has happened a number of days in a row.

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I have the same issue. I have an AW3 with OS 4.3.2. I usually go on Power-Reserve late in the afternoon. My wife has an AW3 with OS 4.3.1. Hers lasts for two days. My watch now sits on my bureau after its nightly charge. I just checked and its charge is currently down to 33% at 3:45pm. My wife's shows 76% and it has been on her wrist all day. I really miss wearing the thing, but it no good to me this way. Anyone have an update?

Same here. I have almost no notifications pushed to my watch as I use it mostly to track sleep and get call/text notifications during the day. I had it on do not disturb/sleep after fully charging last night before bed. Was down to 86% when I woke up - which is about twice as fast of a drain. By noon, was down below 60% and still set to DND.

I have it set not to light up for any reason aside from a touch. Brightness is as low as possible (which I often find it is strangely bright and have to go back, switch to brighten, then lower again).

After having this thing well over a year and never having issues, this seems like a terrible change. Using it so little, I've always been able to go 2 nights before charging. Hope this is a bug they fix over a foreshadowing of future performance.

WOW, you’re getting a whole 15 hours. I’m lucky to get 8. I changed nothing after the upgrade and like you was getting about 2 days. I’ve turned a number of apps off but if I use anything at all the battery life is awful. What can be done to fix this problem??

Same issue. Apps seem to be opening on their own and battery running down much quicker than before. Also, when touching the dial once to view all app icons, they zoom in and out randomly. Updated about 2 weeks ago and it continues to get worse. Have an apt with Genius Bar today. Watch a couple of months over 2 years old. Gen 2.

My problem with the battery draining seems to be resolved. I am back to getting over a day on one charge. This is even after my bike ride in the morning!

The watch seemed to be hung up on an app. The app was "Remote S" for Tesla cars. I had gone out to unlock my car. I attempted to unlock it with my watch which is normally very quick, but it refused to respond. When I got on the Tesla app on my phone, it was also hung up. I removed the app from the watch and all else came to life. That is when my battery life when back to normal.

Now I know not everyone has a Tesla, but you may have another hung up app. You might check to see if you have a corresponding watch app on your phone and see if it is functioning. That will most likely be the culprit.

Hope this helps!

Same here. Never had battery drain like this before!

Same issue here and it’s become the typical with Apple on all their updates. Wish I could go back to previous. Apple wake up and fix issues with no battery drain it’s getting old!

I am definitely having this issue as well. Mine is a first gen watch but have never had this kind of drain, not even close.

I certainly don't have a Tesla and wish that was the issue, lol. I don't use many apps on my watch, thus making the battery drain that much more of a shock. Hope we all find a fix, soon!