Declining Battery life

[ksoze]

My Series 8 is lucky to get 7 or 8 hours after a full charge. Battery health is at 94%. OS 9.5.1 I have tried many of the tips - re-pairing, lowering or turning off most power stealing options (screen, notifications). Apple support (chat) was essentially useless. The watch is basically useless at this point as it cannot last a full day. On at 8:00am at 100% and hitting 25% by 2:00pm or so.

Anyone found any missing links to power drain issues. Short of a full erase and install, I am out of options and pine for the days when I got the watch when I could go a full day and still have a bit of battery left.

 

[jz0309]

My Series 8 is lucky to get 7 or 8 hours after a full charge. Battery health is at 94%. OS 9.5.1 I have tried many of the tips - re-pairing, lowering or turning off most power stealing options (screen, notifications). Apple support (chat) was essentially useless. The watch is basically useless at this point as it cannot last a full day. On at 8:00am at 100% and hitting 25% by 2:00pm or so.

Anyone found any missing links to power drain issues. Short of a full erase and install, I am out of options and pine for the days when I got the watch when I could go a full day and still have a bit of battery left.

disable background app refresh for a day and see what that does.
check all the apps that have background refresh enabled, there might be a rogue one ...

when you did the re-pair - did you setup as new or restore? restore might restore something funky ...

 

[russell_314]

My Series 8 is lucky to get 7 or 8 hours after a full charge. Battery health is at 94%. OS 9.5.1 I have tried many of the tips - re-pairing, lowering or turning off most power stealing options (screen, notifications). Apple support (chat) was essentially useless. The watch is basically useless at this point as it cannot last a full day. On at 8:00am at 100% and hitting 25% by 2:00pm or so.

Anyone found any missing links to power drain issues. Short of a full erase and install, I am out of options and pine for the days when I got the watch when I could go a full day and still have a bit of battery left.

That’s terrible! If it makes you feel any better, a full erase and install is pretty quick on the watch. It’s not as bad as doing it on the iPhone. I had to do it on one of mine because it wouldn’t accept a credit card I was trying to add.

 

[MacKid1983]

I picked up the AWU and Ive had it for about a week and charged to 100% at 10pm last night, woke up at 6:30am with 92% its 1pm now to 86%. I feel like thats a pretty big dip in the span of sleeping. I had cellular and wifi off as well as most notifications dont have a crazy watch face that uses up batter and raise to wake / AOD is always off.

 

[ksoze]

Did a full set up as new instead of a reset as a final resort. After erasing watch and re-pairing with phone, it keeps setting up with old content and settings, even though selecting "Set up as a New Watch" after re-pairing.

 

[xxBlack]

I picked up the AWU and Ive had it for about a week and charged to 100% at 10pm last night, woke up at 6:30am with 92% its 1pm now to 86%. I feel like thats a pretty big dip in the span of sleeping. I had cellular and wifi off as well as most notifications dont have a crazy watch face that uses up batter and raise to wake / AOD is always off.

I charge it right before bed and when I wake up (7h later) I have 98-99% battery.

 

[minimo3]

Try disabling AOD (always on display). I was getting about 10 hours usage and at least for me with AOD turned off I get almost double the usage - I can now end the day with about 50% left instead of dying by dinner