HomePod Anyone got battery problems on the Apple Watch after the got the HomePod? My watch have 3x higher battery drain than before installing the HomePod

[Phat^Trance]

This is a tricky one, the same day I got my Apple HomePod generation 2, I noticed that my battery drainage on my Apple Watch s6 is like two or three times higher than usual. Usually when I charge my battery to 80% it holds for around 24 hours. But after I got the HomePods, I am not able to even reach 8 hours with 80% battery charge.

I haven’t installed any new apps or done any changes on either my iPhone, or my Apple Watch. The only difference is that I connected the HomePods.

Rebooting the phone or the watch doesn’t help

Does anyone have the same experience?


Update:

So i disconnected my 2x homepods (gen 2) from the wall and charged my apple watch s6 to 80%, the battery lasted from 7am to 10am the next day (total of 27h). Then the next day i connected the homepods back to the wall socket and had them activated, but didnt play any songs at all, and guess what, the apple watch battery went down to 7h before it died. so theres definetly something going on with the homepods draining the apple watch (series 6) battery, even while not in use.

Ive already reseted my apple watch twice, also also tried with set it as a new watch (without restoring backups). None of the options helped.

Note that i have most of the battery saving options activated on my watch, stuff like wifi, background apps, noice recognitions (loud sound), washing hands etc are turned off

 

[malcky77]

I do not have any new HomePods, but are you getting any more notifications on your watch than before?

Have you done any recent IOS/Watch updates?

 

[pup]

I don’t think I’ve seen that one before. I’d try unplugging the HomePod for a day to see if your watch returns to normal. My bet though is that it’s a watch issue and the HomePod is just coincidence.

 

[waw74]

are you sure it didn't start with an OS update? there was one about a week before the new HomePods shipped, If you've got auto updates turned on, it might have happened without you noticing, and those sometimes take a few days after release before they auto-install. and just coincidentally been around the time you got the HomePods.

I've had an OS update cause my battery to last under 4 hours, I guess something got scrambled in the background.

Try un-pairing and re-pairing the watch, you can restore from backup, so you shouldn't loose any data, but it might take a bit of time, up to 2 hours (probably much less). Make sure to manually backup before you start, so you don't loose any health data

If that doesn't clear it up, try it again without the restore from backup. BUT... give it a couple days before trying it without the restore, from my experience battery life is lower than normal for a few days after OS updates.

 

[Phat^Trance]

I don’t think I’ve seen that one before. I’d try unplugging the HomePod for a day to see if your watch returns to normal. My bet though is that it’s a watch issue and the HomePod is just coincidence.

I did that and battery on my watch went back to normal, so its defiently something with the HomePods causing this. Ive updated all my devices to latest OS 2 days ago, but still no luck.

 

[pup]

Interesting. I wish I had some additional suggestions for you. Just add it to the list of Weird Things the HomePod will Screw With.

If your watch is cellular, maybe disabling wifi could be a workaround?

 

[Phat^Trance]

Update:

So i disconnected my 2x homepods (gen 2) from the wall and charged my apple watch s6 to 80%, the battery lasted from 7am to 10am the next day (total of 27h). Then the next day i connected the homepods back to the wall socket and had them activated, but didnt play any songs at all, and guess what, the apple watch battery went down to 7h before it died. so theres definetly something going on with the homepods draining the apple watch (series 6) battery, even while not in use.

Ive already reseted my apple watch twice, also also tried with set it as a new watch (without restoring backups). None of the options helped.

Note that i have most of the battery saving options activated on my watch, stuff like wifi, background apps, noice recognitions (load sound), washing hands etc are turned off