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
After an OS update, it's common to experience an increased battery drain as certain tasks related to the update continue in the background including indexing, you should only experience this increased battery drain for a few days before it goes back to normal.
If after a couple days, your battery is not back to normal, I would recommend unpair and repairing your Apple Watch with your iPhone ⇢ Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support
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!!!!
I have a series 8 and same thing... I use the watch only as a watch but a track my runs 4-5 times a week, the battery lasts from early morning to late night normally, but after the update, it was dry as the Gobi Desert by 2pm..
I have an Apple Watch 9, and have been losing battery power since the 11.0 update horribly. I charged it this morning, to 100% at 10:30 am. I haven’t even really used it today, and at 3:06 pm it is at 35%!!!!!! I have closed the background app refresh, and hope that helps. But what else can I do???
This is actually wild, as the Ultra 2 is supposed to have the longest battery life of all the Apple Watches and I was looking at buying it for that sole reason.
Apple dropped the ball big time on this one and it started with WatchOS 9 I think and they refuse to address the issue.
I had issues with my stainless steel 8 from the first year after an update and they kept dismissing me. Now after they said that the battery still has 85% capacity, they wanted $400 in order to replace my battery. How convenient
yep, Apple Watch 6 is useless after updating to 11.0.1. Only thing it did all day was alarm once and sit on my wrist where I periodically checked the time and it was dead before 3/4 of the day was gone.
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.
You cannot have actually read what people are experiencing here and written this answer. Massive battery drains in less than an hour. This is not at all normal or acceptable, and users should never have to factory reset your device to get an update to not kill the battery.
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.
I have updated my watch with this fix, but still find my battery is draining much sooner than it did before. I have to charge it every 16 hours, whereas before I installed OS 11 I could go almost 24 hours on a charge. Is there another fix coming?
This update is awful. I always got 30 hours minimum, sometimes 40. Now I’m lucky to get 14…
is there any word from apple on a bug fix. To me this is a bug …. Going this far backwards !!! I dread to think it might get worse with their AI update.
No fix. Not better at all. Watch is off warranty and next step would be to get a new battery, but the battery is still at 87% life. I’m very disappointed in the update, because it’s been terrible and less user friendly and the awful battery drain. Still charge twice a day, for now. Also what’s the point of having any of the features (always on display, live activities, regular notifications) if you have to shut everything off to make the watch last more than 6 hours.
With the last update, now my watch battery lasts another hour (7 hours instead of 6). Also, my watch no longer gets severely hot like it has been whenever I charge it since the OS 11 update.
Since the 11 update, I also cannot change the brightness on my watch. I move the slider and it has no effect. My display also periodically twitches, so I have trouble changing any alarms.
I turned off most of my notifications. (Already tried all resets.)
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
Apple Watch battery draining fast after watchOS 11 Update
