Apple Watch 6 battery drain

moondoggy02116 wrote:

...It would take zero effort for them to create an app equivalent to this message board to broadcast mea culpas over known issues...

Apple does not read this user-to-user technical support forum for feedback.

But you can send Apple feedback via:

Feedback - Watch - Apple

If enough users send feedback, it is more likely a decision maker will see it, and maybe take action.

I am having the same problem, and had it this summer too. Had to take it to the store and it was eventually resolved but I don’t remember how. Very annoying. The first step was making sure that the phone it was paired to is software updated. I don’t remember what came next because I don’t think that alone resolved it. Clearly not since my phone is up to date.

I had this happen 2 months ago and magically it went back to normal in a week after talking to support. Now it is happening again for the last week. 100% to 36% in 3 hours.... no physical use of watch.

Afraid to buy another watch to upgrade from 4, issue seems to be all over the board.

The most annoying thing about this is that Apple has adopted a culture of frequent but bug-prone updates joined with a lack of transparency. It would take zero effort for them to create an app equivalent to this message board to broadcast mea culpas over known issues (which should be rare but aren’t). Instead the pattern is that the company issues an update to fix a cluster of issues, but the update itself sometimes generates a collateral issue. Then users one by one have the “wait a minute, is this normal or broken?” moment, then have the burden of doing research and repair.

But for the record, my watch is operating normally after I recently restarted it. I even had to google that because to my surprise, the power off button was not responding no matter how many times I tapped it.

That's very good advice, but I just don't have any confidence anymore that they listen to their consumers. And I literally JUST posted this message about finally having resolved my battery problem three days ago, and guess what, they issued another update. This is a company in decline, honestly. Maybe they are too big to fail at this point (I hope so because I'm a stockholder), but many of the qualities that we used to associate with them have vanished.

Actually, restarting my watch just helped. Hold both buttons down until you see the screen go black and the Apple logo gradually appear. Then charge fully.