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Finding very heavy battery drain with this update. From 9am to 10am lost 10% battery. Usually at 7pm I would have 65-70% battery left. Sitting at 50% right now.
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Apple Watch Series 7, watchOS 11
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Terrible battery drain after updating watchOS 11 on apple watch series 7. The apple watch goes from 100% to 84% in less than 1 hours. In 8 hours, the apple watch is running out of charge. Worst of all, this is using it as normal watch, not playing music, not tracking any sports or activity from workout app, just putting in my wrist to use it as a normal watch.
Series 7 v 11.0.1, battery is draining too fast after updates, I removed all the apps from watch, also didn’t used that much….
If I only could update my watch, as the battery was draining so fast that the Apple Store (not) geniuses were not able to charge it enough in order to update the OS
Is there any update from Apple about this problem????
My series 8 is dying from a full charge in 5 hours after the update and it’s unacceptable
By the time I got to work at 8am I was sitting at 78% it’s now 10:36am and I’m at 5%
this didn’t start until the new update came out 🙄
Update 11.1 the same problem don’t install this ****
Yeah, I tried everything. Unpaired and erased the watch. What a waste of time that was. Nothing improved. Have to charge twice a day now. Guess is the old regular planned obsolescence with software upgrades. I did shut off live activities, which gave me a slight improvement. Other than that I’m quite disappointed.
Nothing I tired worked. Shutdown and restarted both phone and watch many times, since unpairing and reinstalling software on the watch. Only thing that helped reduce the drain was shutting off live activities. I never had the always on display on, also have reduce motion on. Other than that, I have to charge twice a day or I’ll run out of battery during the night or in the middle of the day.
I would like to add to my comment as well. I did buy a Series 10 Black 45mm watch. The battery life is better than the other watches right now. However, Apple states 18 hours of battery life. On the new one, more like 12-14 hours. Defiantly a software issue. It also has been almost 3 weeks. Since IOS 18 and Watch OS 11 has come out. Apple needs to stop focusing on IOS 18.1 and the AI, and focus on the existing bug issue at hand!!!!
Yeah, I feel your pain. I have the following settings, Always on Display - off, Live Activities - off, Siri - off, Reduce Motion - On, Display Brightness @50%, Wake on Crown Up - Off, Auto Launch Activities - Off, Background App Refresh - On (but only apps that I need), Haptics On (because I press buttons as I move around and want to notice it). Other than that it’s charge twice a day.
I'm fully charged at 100% at 5:30am on my series 9 watch. Walk 4 mins to work at 7, walk 4 mins home at 5, walk 2 miles at 5:30 and am at 3% at 7:35pm. I used to do all of this and more and still have 30% or more at 9pm. Irritating to say the least!
Update: my watch 6 is back to normal after about 4 days. It holds charge normally now. That’s the longest it’s taken to get back to normal after an update, but for those of you who just did the update, it gets better. 👍
Happening to me as well.
I have an Apple Watch 7 (GPS) and after a two-three hour run (using Podcast and Runna) my watch dropped to 10% after charging all night.
This was not the case until the recent update.
Try to unpair and pair it again.
My battery life on the Ultra 2 is back to were it was in watchOS 10.6.1.
After 67hours still 19%, every day at least 30min workout, Live Activities switched off, Always On Display disabled. Tracking sleep uses less or around 1% per hour.
Exactly. I’ve tried everything. Even unpaired twice. Zero improvement. I used to be able to do 3-4 walking exercises for 30-60 mins at a time and still wake up with 35-40% battery. The other day I wanted to see how far I could take it without charging twice in a day. I woke up with 5% battery. Battery health on the Watch is 87%. Other complaint I have are the updates to Timers and Weather apps also stink. They went backwards on the update and did not improve it.
Apple Watch battery draining fast after watchOS 11 Update
