WatchOS 11.5 Bad Battery Life

Anyone seeing significant battery life drop with 11.5? I had an Apple Watch Ultra with a brand new battery for about a month before 11.5. Since 11.5 my battery isn’t making it very far before I have to top off.

AW 9 here. I’ve not noticed any significant drop off

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AW10 w/ cellular here (rarely use it though) and do not see any difference.

I do know devices sometimes run a spotlight index after certain updates that can cause them to run warm/hot and have worse battery but those eventually finish.

To paraphrase The IT Crowd, have you tried turning it off and back on again? I sometimes get weird behavior on devices after an update that a reboot resolves. I’m tempted to just add a safety reboot after an update finishes just to be safe.

Yep. Did a hard reset and it had no effect :-/

+1. My AW 5 battery suddenly doesn’t last more than 6 hrs after the update. it’s immediately noticeable.

probably should bring this to the attention of Apple via phone or at Store.