Just had it happen to me for the first time ever. Freaked me out til I read this thread so it's kinda reassuring I'm not the only one experiencing it. Ever since WatchOS2, I can usually go through a whole day and have about 60% left before I go to sleep. Today though it was already down to 40% by the time I got off work and only 5% left before I even ate dinner.
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Why did my Apple Watch battery tank hard today?
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No way yet, not like the Usage screen in iPhone's Settings.
Try restarting the watch first since it's easiest. If it's still running amok, try un-pairing and re-pairing with your phone.
3rd party apps are total jokes. They will kill your Watch battery. The only one which works nice is Sky Guide (the rest about 10 other apps like SoundCloud, instagram etc. does not work or even if they works a little, they eats battery like crazy worms).
The solution to the battery drain issue is nothing to do with pairing and unpairing. A few weeks back my Watch did the same thing. At 10% battery it notifies me, and even after rebooting it immediately it still died within an hour of reboot. Same thing happened to my wife a few days ago while we were watching a movie. 10% battery and then dead soon after.
Both of us usually have 50-60% every day before we go to sleep.
The solution is not to reboot but to put the Watch on the charger. You don't even need to reboot. I don't know why this is happening, but I'd be more inclined to believe it's an OS or Apple app but because neither my wife or I have any third party apps that we use except Uber, and that hasn't been used in a while anyway.
Anyway, this is just our experience. There's no need to unpair the Watch when this happens. It'll just happen every now and then and there's not much any of us can do about it.
Both of us usually have 50-60% every day before we go to sleep.
The solution is not to reboot but to put the Watch on the charger. You don't even need to reboot. I don't know why this is happening, but I'd be more inclined to believe it's an OS or Apple app but because neither my wife or I have any third party apps that we use except Uber, and that hasn't been used in a while anyway.
Anyway, this is just our experience. There's no need to unpair the Watch when this happens. It'll just happen every now and then and there's not much any of us can do about it.
Hmm I wonder if it's a range issue, i.e. Gets on borderline BT range with the phone in some condition we can't yet fathom and gets itself in a knot about attempting to reconnect or not.
I've had Garmins with this issue before. When it happened to mine the phone and it refused to acknowledge each other's existence until I rebooted both (after charging the watch).
No it's not a range issue. My phone is always in my pocket. And my wife's never leaves her side, either. Plus, it's so sporadic as to just be peculiar.
Happened to me for the second time today. Put watch on at 7 am and was at 10% battery by 2 pm. The first time it happened I assumed it was the heart rate monitor getting stuck on because I tracked my walk to work, but this time I did nothing of the sort. The only thing I notice is that sometimes it has a very hard time getting my location (Maps, Weather, etc) and that seems to make it "hang". That's been my guess on the battery life issue. Usually a reboot and a recharge fixes it.
Same here happened to me about a week ago for the first time and again today for no apparent reason. I charged it and now wearing it again to check if the same rate of battery drain continues. If it's an OS flaw they it needs to be addressed.
8 day with Apple Watch. Since yesterday I have the battery issue. It goes worse today. After 1 hour and 5 min. it is 90% (from 100) now.
Update: I removed Facebook Messenger, turned off the Watch for a few minutes, re-enabled Bluetooth on iPhone (6), and turned on the Watch. Seems to be OK back now (about 3% per hour battery usage). I switched back also Watch face to modular.
Update: I removed Facebook Messenger, turned off the Watch for a few minutes, re-enabled Bluetooth on iPhone (6), and turned on the Watch. Seems to be OK back now (about 3% per hour battery usage). I switched back also Watch face to modular.
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They say 2.0.1 should fix issues that were impacting battery performance, so maybe this is the issue that will be fixed.
I've had two individual days, months apart, since I got the watch on April 29th, where the battery died by midday. Both times, it charged normally overnight and was back to normal the next day. Strange.
I hope 2.0.1 fixes that issue. Cause I had this happened to me a few times as well. Random battery drain. Verry annoying having to watch my battery level all the time to make sure it's not draining. I don't want to have to carry around a charger with me all the time. It's a watch...really hope Apple has fixed this with the update.
Today my watch tanked hard. Did nothing which it special. I only get text message notifications...died in about 6 hours. Just updated to 2.0.1 hopefully that fixes it.
I had the exact same experience as others in this thread. About two weeks ago my battery life started tanking. Wouldn't even last a day even though I used to end the day with like 50% battery. I did install 2.0.1 and it actually didn't help. Today my battery was dead by 4 pm. How have the rest of you fared with the new update?
One day with the update and I'm fine. Doesn't say much. Mine was tanking 1 day every 3 weeks on average.
Started draining pretty quickly this morning -- the second time since owning it, once on 2.0 and today on 2.0.1 -- draining about 10% per hour. The only non-Apple app I ran was News360, although I checked email and weather, plus I used it (as usual) as my alarm clock.
I restarted after the first 10% drain, and it kept going. I did a hard reset after I noticed the second 10%, and it seems okay now.
I put one of my mechanical watches in my jacket pocket just in case.
[follow up] The hard reset (hold both buttons until it restarts) seemed to fix it. It drained about 10% over the next 12 hours.
I restarted after the first 10% drain, and it kept going. I did a hard reset after I noticed the second 10%, and it seems okay now.
I put one of my mechanical watches in my jacket pocket just in case.
[follow up] The hard reset (hold both buttons until it restarts) seemed to fix it. It drained about 10% over the next 12 hours.
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Happened to me repeatedly a couple of weeks ago. None of the reset or unpair and pair fixes worked for me. I took it to the Apple Store. At first they blamed it on my usage, but then the watch dropped from 80% to 40% in the 15 minutes I was there.
They replaced my watch. I have not had any issues with the new one.
They replaced my watch. I have not had any issues with the new one.
Mine had a good day today. Down to 35% or so by the time I take it off around 8 pm. Yesterday it was depleted by 4 pm. I wish I knew what was causing the disparities.
Shoot, it just happened to me again, today. After a few hours off the charger in the morning, the battery dropped down below 50%. By the time I got home to charge it, it was at around 35%. Oddly enough, I put the watch on the charger for 20 minutes to get it back to around 50%, and the watch is only at 45% several hours later, so it's now working ok.
It seems that putting the watch on a charger for any amount of time fixes this occasional quick-drain battery issue, for me.
It seems that putting the watch on a charger for any amount of time fixes this occasional quick-drain battery issue, for me.