Insane battery drain – but on watchOS 9

[Elektronenhirn]

Hello,

I am a little desperate. I did not upgrade to watchOS 10 because I read in advance about the horrible battery life. In the last couple of months, I noticed the battery life of my watch degrading more and more, but the last couple of days, it got really bad.

For example, yesterday. I charged it twice, once at 2pm and then again at 10pm. This morning, I woke up with 6%, and the watch was a little bit warm. The battery life chart is completely broken.



I repaired the watch a few days ago, but I have the feeling that it made things even worse. I removed the watch from all of my Macs for auto-unlock, and also blocked it in Xcode so that it wouldn't get used for debugging. However, nothing helps.

Hardware: iPhone XR is running 17.1 RC, AW S7 is running 9.6.1 with 85% about 1.5 years after purchase.

Anyone else have this kind of experience?

 

[mk313]

I had a similar thing happen a few years ago, and the culprit ended up being a corrupt app (audible) that was killing the battery. Removing the app, then reinstalling fixed it.

I'd recommend removing all third party apps to see if that fixes the problem, if it does, you can reinstall them all (or do them one at a time)

 

[Jackbequickly]

Something has to be running in the background to make your watch warm. Like the above poster said, do a fresh install with no added apps.