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Watch OS 8 Severe Battery Drain
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I have noticed about a 10% reduction in battery life on my Series 6. But since this is a beta, I didn’t think too much of it.
Most of the time, the watch beta is going to cause the battery to drain faster than normal. If it gets too excessive for you, try turning off things like background app refresh and AOD to mitigate the drain.
I’m not on OS8 but have 7.5 and it’s started draining my battery terrible. I’ve gone from have 30-35% a day to it warning me at 9pm it’s going into power saving mode. I hope Apple recognise this as it’s probably the same issue on the beta too.
No uncommon for the watch. Sometimes apps or services get stuck and can't be fixed any other way. Good to see you got things running again.
That looks to be on par with typical beta behavior. I remember times when we would see 25% loss before the day was done.
try an unpair and re-pair, it should get a bit better, and then improve over a few days.
sometimes things get off during upgrades
you'd be surprised, they broke atmos on the appleTV, and that was a public beta, so fairly far along in the process.
BUMP THIS! Series 6 on watchOS 8.0 severe battery drain. Left for a run on 100%, and watch died midway.
Charged it up, lost 20% in one hour just wearing it. Something is wrong.
Charged it up, lost 20% in one hour just wearing it. Something is wrong.
Series 6 here too. Haven’t noticed any issues with battery draining. Maybe unpair and repair will help.
It has been a little over 24hrs since I installed WatchOS 8, and battery life is the same as WatchOS 7.
I have a AW 6 on OS 8 since I upgraded battery has been awful. Yesterday dropped from 60% to 38 within 1hr 1/2 and Watch is 2 weeks old was great on previous OS.
having the exact same issue since updating. i have a pretty much brand new SE that had no problems w battery at all until OS8. it will go from 100% to 80% in literally 20 minutes while not being in use whatsoever. i have unpaired/repaired, restarted, etc. nothing has fixed this so it's obviously a software issue that apple needs to be made aware of quickly so this doesnt take 68 years to get resolved.
Same issue with my 4. Filed a complaint with Apple hopefully more people do the same.
After rebooting my phone and watch, the drain has improved a lot. In the
After rebooting my phone and watch things were a lot better. For instance this morning it went from 100% to 30% in a few hours. After the reboots I had 86% after 12 hours.