My Apple Watch 6 is about 5 months old, now. It’s on WatchOS 7.3.3. In recent weeks – perhaps due to an OS update – I’m finding I need to charge it twice a day. I wear the watch day and night, and I have found it going into energy reserve mode in mid-morning or late evening if I do not keep up with a morning and evening charging routine.
It’s cellular – but I do not use cellular much to send calls. I mainly listen to music on the iPhone. (I’m wondering now why I have a Watch )
Anyone else noticing the Watch cannot keep charged for a full day?
Oddly enough in the last few days I’ve noticed my Series 5 dropping off really quickly. Put it on at 8:30 this morning and by 7:30 tonight it was done. I was at 7% as I finished my evening workout
For me the crucial difference is whether I play Overcast from the Watch while running. If I do I need to recharge while showering afterwards. If not the watch doesn’t need charging other than overnight.
What you’re experiencing can’t be right, I have never once had to charge my series 5 except for overnight.
It always lasts a full day, from 5:30am to around 11pm, with charge left, and has done since I bought it. I do regular exercise and use the fitness features at least once a day.
I think the difference is your watch is on the charger at night. Mine is on my wrist at night. I charge it in the morning – and recently also in the evening – otherwise I’m wearing it.
I found I was having a real issue with the Home complication on the face. I have some smart devices that aren’t necessarily updated to their most current firmware, and when I put the Home complication on my active watch face (in late November, because I use smart stuff almost exclusively for Christmas lights), the battery life for my S4 watch plummeted. When I took the complication off, battery life immediately improved greatly.
To generalize this, is it possible that an app or complication is stuck or trying to communicate a lot with your phone?
A similar thing happened to me last fall when I ran the 7 update on my Apple Watch 4. An update came out a few weeks later that resolved the issue. I also recommend the unpairing and repairing. I did that a month or so ago and it freed up all kinds of space.
Adding one more data point, this one from iOS “betaland:” I’ve been on the (seemingly eternal) iOS 14.5 / watchOS 7.4 beta train since February and my two watches (S4 and S5) have been exhibiting poor battery performance throughout. Fully charged at 7 AM and by 7 PM they’d be at 20% or below. The release candidate versions this week have not improved on this issue. I may have to jump on the iOS 14.6 / watchOS 7.5 beta to see if they’ve improved this.