Apple Watch battery draining fast after watchOS 11 Update

I wish there was just a way to downgrade to the latest previous version...

I would never have upgraded to 11, if I knew my watch would become so useless.

Well that could be a solution.

You cannot expect every user to search the internet for a solution. A user just needs to know what to look for. Perhaps they are looking for something else and come across like-minded people who then completely criticize an Apple watch.

Apple should just prevent this. Such a large company and you pay significantly more for their products that you should not expect. And if there is a problem, they have to solve it without a user having to look something up on the internet.

Unfortunately, this was also the case with iOS 10. You can assume that a watch will last for years without these kinds of problems. Or do they do this on purpose? This was also the case with the iPhone a few years ago?

But now I'm also speculating...

Same thing happened to my watch. Day before the update, battery health was 85%. Day after the update, battery health is now 76% and Apple has suggested I spend $99 to repair the battery. When speaking with Apple support, I said it sure seems like there is more than mere correlation here. It seems like the update had a causal effect on my current poor battery performance. Apple support said it was mere coincidence. LOL

Same with my Apple Watch 8. And with my iPhone with the most recent update to that. Please issue a fix asap. My devices aren’t lasting more than 10-12 hours even with modest use and no apps running in the background.

Unless Apple starts paying attention to the numerous posts on this subject, we are all screwed and are wearing bricks on our wrists. I asked for a Christmas upgrade, but now, reading that even the newest watches are experiencing this drain after the update, I will consider bringing it right back to the store. So unacceptable that we as consumers are faced with this scam. Not like they are cheap. More than frustrated.

I had the same problem with my watch losing up to 20% of charge in an hour for no apparent reason. Tried unpairing and setting up as new watch but no change. It became apparent that it was the iPhone that was causing the problem. I did a “reset all settings” on the iPhone and after the initial watch syncing process which will drain battery, everything now appears to be back to normal. Hope this might help others.

I had the same problem.

after 2-3 days the battery drain is now back to normal though.

the only thing I did I activated “low power mode“ once over night. The next day I fully charged my watch and went back to normal power mode. Since then the battery is working better. Don’t know if it was just the time that went by (2-3 days) or the low power mode. You could try this.

I think it is absolutely ridiculous that we keep jumping through Apple hoops to make our devices functional again after these last product updates. These updates have thrown my phone, iPad and watch into limited functionality. Instead of acknowledging and apologizing for all the issues, issuing correction updates, or even warning people about them, they stonewalled. These updates were absolutely not fully tested before issuing. They could and should have issued them in smaller updates rather than trying to make a big splash in the tech world. They made a big splash alright with one huge belly flop.

If you mean going to Smart Stack and disabling “allow live activities”, as it’s the only option there, then yeah, it doesn’t solve anything unfortunately. Maybe there’s something else that’s affecting it in 11

After testing for more days, I can confirm that the solution suggested by @Watchmybattery does work. Disabling Live Activities in Smart Stack settings section restores battery usage to almost as it used to be before watchOS 11.

My AW7 (at 88% capacity) can once again exist for almost 24 hours without prompting me to enable Low Power Mode or dying altogether.

Let Apple know about your findings by using the Feedback link, to make them aware of the watchOS issue.

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Unpairing and connecting my Ultra 2 stopped the battery drain after watchOS 11.0.1 for me, still hesitating to update to watchOS 11.1, since my battery life is at the level of 10.6.1 again.

Another users switched off Bluetooth on the watch and iPhone, which brought the battery life back to normal in his case:

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Same here. S8. It used to lose 10-15% of the battery overnight. Now it loses 75% over 6-7 hours - in sleep mode, for crying out loud!

Same issue after 11.0.1 of my ultra 2. Worst is overnight while sleeping and it goes from over 70% to 20%. I’m having to reeharfe almost daily where it would last 4 days usually with heavy use.