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Watch os3 series 1 dead battery by afternoon

Hello,

I've updated my Apple Watch Series 1 to use watchOS 3, the process took a fair while, the Watch app on my iPhone 6 said it was downloading "20 minutes remaining" then "2 days remaining", then my watch died around 3pm (watchOS 2.x), I thought because it kept trying to poll it or something it just died.. fine no worries. Plugged it in when I got home, charged and started the update again, tried to add some apps to the watch while it was updating but they failed, os update eventually went through.

Then first day of using watchOS 3 my battery died again, roughly around the same time as when I tried to update it, baring in mind it usually lasts all day with around 40-50% depending on if I went to the gym that morning.

Now this morning, from full 100% charge its down to 90% within the first hour, and now 80% an hour and half later.

I've removed all the apps from the dock, restart etc to see if that helps, no luck.

Anyone getting the same issues?

Cheers,

Sam

Hey guys! I have a fix! Its different than I expected!

So, I've been on the phone with apple engineers, in chat with engineers, and met with a couple of genies and an engineer at the apple store in Chicago. After multiple people all looking at my diagnostics and to no avail what the drainage of my battery is, this one kinda random guy working there, and interested in the problem suggested a new idea after we all agreed that it seemed like the actual iPhone was the source of the problem:

FIX: On my iPhone, running iOS10 > Settings > General > Reset > 1. Reset All Settings (this will cause you to have to tweak all of the settings and lose your wallpaper, kinda annoying) 2. Reset Network Settings (wifi and other stuff will be lost).

DO A BACK-UP BEFORE YOU DO THIS.

Of course, they had me do it all on my own, because they couldn't tell me that I had to do it, but, it worked. My watch was blowing through 8-12% of my battery life every hour, but since I did this, 3 hours ago, I've lost 6% of my battery. This is also after installing  a bunch of apps, and re-enabling background app refresh and notifications too!!

I'm experiencing the same problem.  It took five hours for my watch to update.  Day one, battery completely drained by early evening.  Day two, and it's draining faster than normal.  I don't have many apps on it, and I used the fitness app once for about 30 seconds.

So I've spoken with the online team, and they ran diagnostics remotely on my watch, nothing out of the ordinary, so instructed me to go for hardware diagnostics in store.

I went to my local Apple and can't get an appointment until next Saturday, but they said to try and unpair the watch and phone, then resync as it worked for him in the past. I tried it and it didn't work for me, battery recharged at 3pm and now down to 30%.

I need to keep an eye on my phone tomorrow, it hit 20% by 3pm too, with little to no use. Something must be going on between the two. I might try and wipe my phone this weekend and install from iTunes.

I had the same issue with the watch, an original sports model.  It took nearly a half day to download the software. As soon as it updated, the battery starting draining rapidly.  The second day, on a full charge, the battery drained at about 5 percent an hour--although once I clocked it losing 2 percent in just 15 minutes, and with very little use or activity. So far I've paired and re-paired, reset to factory default and and restored as a new watch, pulled off all activity related apps, turned off background refresh, etc., and even running the watch in grey scale. I used to lose about 3 percent an hour -- now it's draining at twice the speed.  Had one call with a sr apple tech but he wasn't able to help much. So I have a genius bar appt tomorrow. Hopefully that will shed some light.

Good to know I'm not the only one who noticed this...

Today was my first full day with the Series 1 (38mm), and the subpar battery performance is disappointing.

I was previously wearing the original 38mm model, so the comparison is fresh. On average, that battery would last from 5:30a all the way until ~10p (including multiple walking/running exercises throughout the day) before needing a charge.

Back to the Series 1...strapped on around 8am this morning, down to less than 10% battery by 8pm. What gives? At this rate, when I head back to work Monday, I can pretty much expect it to be dead by 5-6pm. I've never had to worry about bringing its charger with me to work, but it looks like that's about to change...

I use my watch mainly for Activity/Exercise apps, and have almost zero apps installed. I also turn off / try to control all potentially battery-draining features: raise to wrist, screen brightness at 50% or less, minimal notifications, background app refresh, reduce motion/transparency, etc.

The only glaring difference between the original model I had and this one is watchOS3, so I'm not sure if they can curb this issue with an update.

Update: Yesterday I thought my watch had drained in five hours.  I was able to see the "low battery clock" on time.  I put the watch on the charger, and it showed the watch face and had plenty of charge left.  I took the watch off the charger, and then it froze again.  I had to use a pin to reset the watch.  Even after that, I had to try turning it off and on several times before it would work properly.  Ever since it has been working fine, and the battery is now draining normally.

I am getting the same issues, although mine started yesterday. It worked absolutely fine for 5 days with watchOS 3. I have no idea what changed yesterday to make it start draining so quickly. I have reset the Watch once and I am currently in the process of unpairing and pairing as a new Watch. Hopefully that will help.

I updated my watch on 9/16 and watch worked fine until 9/19. Battery is draining very rapidly. Today I watched my battery go from 100% to 79% in a matter of 30 minutes! all I did was drive to work! My watch was completely dead by 0930. I was able to go 2 days without having to charge my watch before the update. I turned off all the background refresh and my activity was the same as any normal day at work. This is a serious problem!

So the day the new Watch Update came out- I updated it (it took forever, but it eventually finished).  I've been using my watch fine- normal battery life of about 1.5 days- all was fine.  BUT YESTERDAY (9/20) it all changed.  Now I charge up my watch at 10am, its fine at 6pm- and then it crashes from 70% to the 10% warning by 10pm.  I'm not doing anything different or new- I've installed nothing new, but my battery just dies.  This is 2 days in a row so far.

Anyone know if there was some secret update that hit us watch people yesterday?

Several times my watch has indicated low power.  I just reset by holding the two buttons down until the Apple shows on the screen and the functions are back with a battery over 50%.

Waiting for an update to fix this silly problem.

I'm having the same issue though my update didn't take that long, in fact it went pretty fast. However before the update I could wear my watch for 24 hours, still have 30%, charge it while I got ready for work and repeat.  Now it's dying by 3:00pm.  Not happy about this.  I've closed the apps and all and it's still an issue. 

I had the same issue. I went to Watch App > General > Background App Refresh, then turned off a lot of the apps. Watch on at 7 am and 2 pm I am at 86%. Yesterday same times and I was at 30%. Seems to help me so far. Or it could be that I unpaired my watch from my iPhone 6 and and restored it to iPhone 7. Maybe something within the reinstall it worked better. But I would try the background app refresh.

Hope that helps!

I had similar experiences to what's listed here already - having as few apps as possible, only using the workout feature once a day, a battery life only at 40% by 5pm.

I've also unpaired my watch and reset it. No improvement.

I finally took my watch back to the store and the associate said that most people have been buying the series 2 watch so there's hasn't been much battery feedback on the series 1. He suggested I return, which I did,and wait a couple weeks and see what reviews are on series 2 and buy that one.

My return was easy, the suggestion to try to me upsell me on the more expensive model, I'm not so sure about. I don't feel I should spend  more on a watch that has all these bells and whistles that I don't need, with the hopes of a better battery.

Maybe all of us who posted on this forum got a bad egg with the series 1???

For now I'm gonna hold on a watch purchase.

i have the same problem. At the last day's i tested something.

1. Watch reset / Configured as new watch (no backup install)

2. The Battery works the first Day perfekt.

3. The second day, the Battery drains to about ~8% in one hour

4. The Third Day i take the watch at the morning with (100 % after load) AND do a hard reset on watch/iphone -

    THE Battery works this day perfect !

5. At the next day without a hard reboot at the morning.... same drain ~8% per hour .....

     on this day i made the airplane mode at the watch on ... but the drain go on ....

I think something in watchos3 is buggy ....

最後更新：2017-09-28 13:53:03

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