Maybe yes and I am the first one who buys new Apple products if there is a good reason. But for AppleWatch there is no such reason, my Series 5 does everything I need well enough. Battery health is at 65% but it was still OK until last week. I wanted to use it until the battery finally dies and then upgrade to AppleWatch Series X next year.
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The watchOS 10 battery life thread [MERGED]
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If your battery health is 65%, it's almost dead and maybe watchos10 has finished the work ...
My S7’s battery life is appalling on the RC. Probably at least 50% higher consumption than normal.
I installed the official release last night (never had the beta versions installed). Battery went down rapidly. But after letting it sit on the charger all night, doing whatever it was doing, it seems to be 'normal' today thus far. Took it off the charger at 7:30am and it's currently at 85% at 10:30am, which is about normal for my watch presently (battery is at about "83%" health).
Nah, my glass is always half full and 65% is not almost dead, but almost as good as new 😂
Let's hope you're not right. I expect Series X to be a major upgrade, so I'd like to skip Series 9.
We know that when Apple devices are under 80%, battery is almost dead, it’s not like they have only lost 20% of their life
I have replaced my S5 battery at 80% because it was crashing with heavy usage (running )
Well at least that says I'm not the only one 
Series 5 here, since WatchOS 10 and battery drain is crazy. Battery lasted for a whole day on watchOS 9, I only charged it once a day right after I woke up. Now after the update, battery is down by 10% every single hour. I mean, the day before the update, battery was normal. So obviously it's a 10 thing, let's see what the next update would do. 🤞
Series 5 here, since WatchOS 10 and battery drain is crazy. Battery lasted for a whole day on watchOS 9, I only charged it once a day right after I woke up. Now after the update, battery is down by 10% every single hour. I mean, the day before the update, battery was normal. So obviously it's a 10 thing, let's see what the next update would do. 🤞
Series 7 here. As with others it looks to be dropping at about 10% per hour, which is twice as fast as before.
If it’s like this tomorrow I guess I’ll do a wipe and restore and see if that helps. Today is my first time ever seeing the 10% low battery warning!
If it’s like this tomorrow I guess I’ll do a wipe and restore and see if that helps. Today is my first time ever seeing the 10% low battery warning!
Series 8 here. My battery life has effectively been slashed by 50% or more? I could get two days in between charges which is now just barely one. And on the days I’m not using my watch (as in it’s idling in my backpack or desk), the battery just ticks away like crazy. So annoyed.
Edit: I should note that I’ve been using the RC since last Monday. Nothing has improved.
Edit: I should note that I’ve been using the RC since last Monday. Nothing has improved.
Series 8 here and experiencing the same issues with watchOS 10. I'm also seeing more drain on my phone since going to iOS 17. This has to be a bug of some sort. I think they'll have it patched with one of the .1 updates that always seem to follow a major release. I'd bet with a lot more devices running updated software they'll get more telemetry data and identify the issue quicker than when people were just running betas, I hope anyway. I'm not buying a new watch when the only thing that's changed recently is the software its running.
Same watch, same issue. Last Friday, I ordered Apple Watch series 9. I hope the new watch will perform better.
I have an iPad Pro 3rd generation that is also experiencing battery drain since I updated the iOS to 17.
Yeah, my series 6 is draining much faster. Hoping it's solved with an update.