Apple Watch has serious battery drain problem

The latest stable watchOS 10.4 has serious battery drain problem. It has been nearly one month but no fix. Could anybody help to escalate?


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Apple Watch Series 5, watchOS 10

Posted on Apr 1, 2024 07:33 AM

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Apr 17, 2024 10:54 PM in response to imWildCat

Same here.

S9 showing severe battery drain since a few days now. The graph shows a slightly different pattern during the day than at night but it’s abnormally high either way..

Doesn’t even show the charging process in the graph anymore. When charging in the morning the watch gets very warm and charging is slower than usual.


Have not unpaired and repaired yet, will try that next. Any other advice?

May 12, 2024 09:04 AM in response to imWildCat

Yes, me too on this. I have a Series 4 and a Series 6 watch. I use very few 3rd party apps, nor do I use cellular, and until recently the Series 6 was great - would last over 24 hours. Now, even with light usage it's lasting about 8 hours. I've rebooted the watch and that hasn't helped, so I've reduced brightness and disabled the 'always on' elements (which is annoying, because I liked that about the Series 6). Interesting the newer watches aren't affected and I do wonder if Apple make much effort to align new OSs with older models (after the update I can't put any music on the watch itself). Was thinking I might upgrade to an Ultra, but since I'll probably go through this all again in 18 months am wondering if I might not be better with a cheaper non-Apple alternative.

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