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Apple Watch drains iPhone?

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jakja83

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After getting an Apple Watch SE2 to accompany an iPhone 14 Pro the battery life on the phone has become very poor. Around 60% midday when I used to have 85-90%.

I am guessing the Watch is to blame, but is there any way to amend this?

I have turned off notifications I do not need.

My watch is a cellular version, but currently only using Wifi/BT. Would a cellular connection take "load off the iphone"?

Any help is appreciated!
 
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jakja83 said:
After getting an Apple Watch SE2 to accompany an iPhone 14 Pro the battery life on the phone has become very poor. Around 60% midday when I used to have 85-90%.

I am guessing the Watch is to blame, but is there any way to amend this?
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Is it the watch or maybe the watch is causing you to interact more with the iPhone. With me it does because I don’t miss notifications. I can’t say about battery life because I’ve never tested with and without my watch but I might do that.

jakja83 said:
I have turned off notifications I do not need.

My watch is a cellular version, but currently only using Wifi/BT. Would a cellular connection take "load off the iphone"?
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Maybe but I doubt your watch battery would last all day on cellular only.
 
Did you try to reboot the phone and the watch? Maybe there is a stuck process.
 
In your iPhone battery settings which apps are using the most battery?
 
I noticed something similar. As soon as I have my Apple Watch Ultra on, my iPhone's battery is draining faster. The top app draining the battery is the calendar app. I assume that this is due to the calendar complication ("your schedule") on my watch face, that increases the update frequency, not only on my watch but also on my phone.
I also noticed that my watch is draining faster when having a calendar complication on my watch face.
 
So, we adjusted notifications and rebooted both units - seems to have done the trick. Thank you all for helping!
 
arqtiq said:
I noticed something similar. As soon as I have my Apple Watch Ultra on, my iPhone's battery is draining faster. The top app draining the battery is the calendar app. I assume that this is due to the calendar complication ("your schedule") on my watch face, that increases the update frequency, not only on my watch but also on my phone.
I also noticed that my watch is draining faster when having a calendar complication on my watch face.
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Same here. Did you find a fix ?
 
arqtiq said:
I noticed something similar. As soon as I have my Apple Watch Ultra on, my iPhone's battery is draining faster. The top app draining the battery is the calendar app. I assume that this is due to the calendar complication ("your schedule") on my watch face, that increases the update frequency, not only on my watch but also on my phone.
I also noticed that my watch is draining faster when having a calendar complication on my watch face.
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I've personally not seen this happen and I've been wearing an Apple Watch since the very first one. Reboot everything and make sure you're up to date with the OS versions. If you're on watchOS 10, I personally think it's full of major bugs, so hopefully 10.1 will be released this coming week as the rumors say.
 
For me I would think my Ultra 2 makes my iPhone use less power as I seldom have to take it out and have the screen power up. My watch saves a lot of that.
 
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