Watch draining my iPhone battery

[hypertc13]

I just received my watch yesterday. I took my watch and phone off the charger at 6 a.m. I started work at 7 and had my phone in my pocket or at my desk most. When I got to work at 7 my phone had 98% battery left. I went to look at my phone at 11 a.m and battery was all the way down to 2% so I looked at the battery usage to see what was killing my battery and it showed "messages" using 60% of the battery. I replied to one text in that time period. Didn't even use my phone during that 4 hour span.

Anyone have any idea why this is killing my phone battery? Thanks in advance

 

[scholls22]

I just received my watch yesterday. I took my watch and phone off the charger at 6 a.m. I started work at 7 and had my phone in my pocket or at my desk most. When I got to work at 7 my phone had 98% battery left. I went to look at my phone at 11 a.m and battery was all the way down to 2% so I looked at the battery usage to see what was killing my battery and it showed "messages" using 60% of the battery. I replied to one text in that time period. Didn't even use my phone during that 4 hour span.

Anyone have any idea why this is killing my phone battery? Thanks in advance

Similar issues with me. Its in numerous threads today with people having battery issues. I took my watch and phone to apple yesterday. They can't figure it out.

 

[hypertc13]

Similar issues with me. Its in numerous threads today with people having battery issues. I took my watch and phone to apple yesterday. They can't figure it out.

Strange. Hopefully its a simple fix. I was quite irritated by it. Whats the point of having the watch if my phone dies within 5 hours without even using it. Making the apple watch a very expensive dumb watch

 

[papbot]

It won't hurt anything to do a hard shut down using both buttons on both the phone and the watch. If you just got the watch I would wait a few days, it takes a little while for all the syncing to complete. After about 4 days I had no noticeable phone battery drain, and the watch battery life improved as well.

 

[HippieMagic]

I'm at 40% after 11 hours of heavy use on my phone with the watch connected. Watch is at 66%.

Make sure the only apps you have on the watch are apple ones and make sure your phone isn't using location services. It shouldn't hurt your battery much at all.

 

[BillyTrimble]

I'm at 40% after 11 hours of heavy use on my phone with the watch connected. Watch is at 66%.

Make sure the only apps you have on the watch are apple ones and make sure your phone isn't using location services. It shouldn't hurt your battery much at all.

I have 3rd party apps on the watch and I used location services on the phone. The watch has NOT impacted by iPhone 6+ battery usage in any way.

 

[scholls22]

Okay, I think I have found a fix somewhat. I did several things and not sure which one worked 100%. I did a system restore of both devices and then re-paired. What I think did the trick was the following. I went into the watch settings and then to notifications..Every single app on my iPhone 6 was checked to send notifications to the iPhone which I think was constantly interacting with the phone. I would guess that the more apps you have on your phone, the quicker the battery dies. I unchecked about 95% of the apps and I have been getting way better battery life.

Also, my standby and usage times are starting to have a better spread than I did yesterday. My phone has been off of the charger for an hour and I am still at 100%, which for the last few days I would have been down to 90 already.

Try disabling the notifications and see if that helps!!!!

 

[HippieMagic]

I have 3rd party apps on the watch and I used location services on the phone. The watch has NOT impacted by iPhone 6+ battery usage in any way.

I'm not saying not to use them. It's the easiest way to find the culprit. I had to do this to prevent bad drain. One of the apps caused my battery to drop 10% in 20 minutes of not doing anything at all. There was also a certain app that was trying to use my phones gps 100% of the time which kills a battery.