Apple Watch model 3 sudden recent battery issues

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Curious if anyone else has had issues with their Apple Watch battery recently. I’ve had mine hit 10% around 11pm after only using it since about 9 or 10 am the last four days in a row. One of the days I worked out so that might have drained the battery more but that doesn’t explain the other days. Massive change from the 70% I used to finish the day with. Interested to see if anyone else has had these issues and suggestions to troubleshoot before I head to Apple.

Thanks.

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You can restart/reboot your Watch (because its just a computer) and look for a change.

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I have a Watch 3 with cellular service. The cell service is probably active 40% of the day. I use the watch with AirPods about 2 hours/day. Those are the heavy hitters. I wear the watch 7x23 – so it’s active except when charging. I charge it once daily. Most days it drains down to 55% before the next daily charging.

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Is your phone on iOS 12 beta?

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Yes my phone is on the public iOS beta, interesting since that hasn’t had an update in these few days.

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While I cannot prove that the beta is causing issues, my series 1 gets about 15-30% less battery life in the last few betas…
I have had issues in the past where the battery drops rapidly on its own before iOS 12 beta. Rebooting the watch fixed those issues…

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Agreed. I have iOS 12 Public Beta and AW3 (no beta). Last week, my watch started sucking battery like crazy! Couldn’t even go a full day. I suspected some location setting was running all day; was unable to confirm.

Use the Microsoft Solution on AW (turn off and back on) and that fixed my problem.

KS

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Thanks for all the replies. Should have waited till I tried to the turn off and back on, that seemed to fix it. Interesting that I wasn’t the only one to have that happen running the iOS 12 Public Beta.

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