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WatchOS 9.3 Battery problems

saltxd

saltxd

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Hey guys I upgraded to watchOS 9.3 yesterday and noticed a lot worse battery life I’m already at 79% after about 15 hours and only used it for sleep tracking and light use, usually I’d be around 85-90% is anyone else noticing the same?

On an AWU for reference

Thanks!
 

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I’ve noticed the same since installing it last week. I have an Ultra and before I could run 90min and still have “plenty” of battery.
Since 9.3 I’ve been in the red almost every evening when I place it on the charger. Yesterday it went from 80% to 70% for an hour of doing nothing, then to 35% after an hour run and an hour of gym. Definitely something is going on.

I’ve let it charge to 100% last night and did a couple re-boot to see if that helps.
 
Yep. Mine recharged overnight and updated itself. Today, ran out of juice at 2PM. That's crazy. It's on the charger now, I rebooted, hoping it gets better. Mine's an AW8.
 
Pre 9.3 my Ultra lived happily between 85% and 30%. This included 1 training set daily (with GPS) of between 60 and 90 minutes daily (I sometimes used headphones as well for a podcast). I wear the watch for sleep tracking as well. I was never worried and tested the watch for a 36 hour stretch (battery went down to 24% from around 80% also included the mentioned training and headphones test).

I usually charge the watch when I have a shower to about 80-85%.

I updated my watch to WatchOS 9.3 yesterday and, post update, the battery was at 78%. When I woke up this morning the watch was down to 5%. Fully recharged the watch to 100% and in 1.5 hours the watch dropped by 3%. this is while sitting at my desk, so no training session or headphone use. I bought the Ultra as the watch 7 and 8 battery life wasn't that great and now this.
 
pieman.sa said:
Pre 9.3 my Ultra lived happily between 85% and 30%. This included 1 training set daily (with GPS) of between 60 and 90 minutes daily (I sometimes used headphones as well for a podcast). I wear the watch for sleep tracking as well. I was never worried and tested the watch for a 36 hour stretch (battery went down to 24% from around 80% also included the mentioned training and headphones test).

I usually charge the watch when I have a shower to about 80-85%.

I updated my watch to WatchOS 9.3 yesterday and, post update, the battery was at 78%. When I woke up this morning the watch was down to 5%. Fully recharged the watch to 100% and in 1.5 hours the watch dropped by 3%. this is while sitting at my desk, so no training session or headphone use. I bought the Ultra as the watch 7 and 8 battery life wasn't that great and now this.
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Yesterday my ultra os 9.2 drain battery in around 70% to dead battery in one night , i see on battery report its drain level is stable , i dont know why , i turn off monitor sleep and testing again , everything normal again , no more drain battery dead .I upgrade 9.3 , and i feel battery so good more than 9.2 , maybe you need take a time for watch index every data
 
****. this is happening to me too. down to 13% after charging all night at 2pm. usually i have 60-70% left at this point.
 
Last time I had a battery issue after an update, I did a restore from back up and that solved the problem. Not saying it would here but it might be worth the time to do a restore.
 
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Mine seems to be back to more or less normal after a restart and full charge. I’m almost at 5pm and I’m at 81 percent. Took the watch off the charger at 7 this morning.
 
Mine is the same today after a reboot and a full charge yesterday. Went from 80 to 50 in 6 hours of mostly doing nothing at home.… ugh 😩
 
My aw ultra battery was charged to 100 last night but its now 9am and it’s at 50%, Apple just gets worse and worse and worse.
 
After a simple restart of the watch (series 6) i seem to be ok as well. 100% at 6:45am when i put it on. Now i'm still at 75% after using the watch the last 7.5 hours including 45min on gps for a hike. Yesterday it had worn down to 13% with the exact same usage! Actually seems maybe a little better than usual today... hopefully smooth sailing from here.
 
It seems to have fixed itself! It must’ve just been indexing or something I’m at 69% after charging it 24 hours ago, used it for sleep tracking and just regular notifications today
 

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I had the same problem. Usually, my ultra needs 5-6 % during sleep. With 9.3 I had 11%.
Hopefully, it's only indexing or what ever...
 
if anything 9.3 has improved battery life slightly for my Ultra.
There have been posts with every OS update nd I've experienced this a few times myself, wait a few days, reboot both watch and phone and that has resolved it for me in the past.
 
Anyone seeing charging taking longer? It seems that 9.3 has killed quick charging for me.
 
I have massive battery drain too. I don‘t know if it has started with 9.3 beta or 9.2 but I switched off EVERYTHING you can switch off on a series 7 and the battery drain is ridiculous. My watch is pretty much a second display for my iphone, I don‘t do sports or any kind of activity tracking, sleep tracking etc. The watch is pretty much a notification display in my use case, nothing else happening on the watch. I‘ve pinned it down to the sleep focus. When I enable that focus the battery drain is crazy. Overnight I lose like 35%
 
Yup. Mines been dead every evening. Used to last til i went to bed or longer. I thought my aging series 5 was dying or some thing so good to see this post…. Now if only apple was quick to fix it cus its super annoying when going out at night
 
Ahh I see why I’ve been having charging issues, I missed the new optimised charging, which seemed to enable itself when 9.3 installed.
 
I usually get about 30h on a charge. I unplug the watch at 7am at 100% and can make it slightly past noon the next day.

Since 9.3.1, the watch is dead by dinner. This is the second update that does this to me. Last time I had to setup the watch again from scratch.

I tried restoring from a backup after wiping it, it lasted one day of normal (to me) battery life and the next day it went back to going down 7-8% per hour or more.

Someone’s not doing a proper testing job at Apple.
 
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