Experiencing battery drain on Apple Watch after installing iOS 13 beta public 4 (on iPhone 7) + WatchOS 5.3 (on a Series 4) — I've been using the watch the same way I did the last few years.
Normal usage often leaves me with 50-60% battery left after a day at work. It's down to 10% now.
I go to sleep with a full charge, and usually wakes up in the morning with about 95%, now it's 70%.
Same here. Battery of watch on 5.3 suddenly got bad when I updated xs max to iOS latest beta. When I disable Bluetooth on watch and only use WiFi it’s all good. So iOS 13 is draining watch via Bluetooth. Probably Bluetooth low power doesn’t work and the full Bluetooth connection is used or worse.
Btw I saw a battery drop overnight from 100% to almost 50%. So in 8 hours when sleeping it took halve the battery when normal this takes only 3%.
Same issue. Iphone X and Series 4 watch. I'll keep a charger at work until the next beta release...
Same here. iPhone X and Series 4 watch on WatchOS 5.3. Just bought the watch a few days ago (I installed the iOS 13 beta on my phone a couple weeks prior - is up to date on public beta 4), and was so disappointed in the battery draining so quickly! Went to bed with a full charge only to wake up to 70% with the watch dying right before I leave work... So hope that this is just a bug with the iOS beta because my series 3 spoiled me with 2 day battery life 😟
Same problem here. iPhone XS and watch series 4. My watch will usually last just north of days but, yesterday it drained from 78% to turning off in around 11 hours.
i have same issue. noticed it being about 5% per hour or more just as it would be on prior watchos if it was not connected to my phone and instead using cellular. S4 cellular xs max i used to get about 2->2 1/2 days on prior watchos
Happy to see I'm not the only one. This battery drain started to freak me out a bit. But since at least there is an explaination... I'll wait for a fix and calm down.
Does anyone know if this issue has been fixed in dev beta 6? I'm waiting for the public beta to come out and keeping my fingers crossed. I really don't want to downgrade back to ios 12 and go to a week old backup.
In my case beta 6 fixed the issue. No more battery drain on watch 4 running watchOS 5.3.
Ppublic beta 5 *is* beta 6, right?
Same here. So far.
Latest public is 5 and issue seems to be fixed so far
Same here. Took watch to Apple store. They checked the hardware. Battery is great. At their suggestion, unpaired the watch and then repaired it as a new pairing. Does not help. I suspect Apple added new features for heart monitoring. Watch can't make it a whole day. The problem is definitely version 5.3 of the OS. Model is A1858. 3% left is much lower than 60% left. Apple - please send out a new OS update.
Perhaps not a beta thing, but rather a watchOS 5.3 thing. I am running watchOS 5.3 and iOS 12.3.1. Last night my Apple Watch battery went from 99% at about 12:10am (when I took it off the charger right before going to bed) to dead sometime between the 6am-7am hour according to the Activity app. I wear the watch while sleeping for sleep tracking and put it into Theater Mode to prefer screen wake as much as possible. There’s usually no issue with severe battery drain with this habit, but a week ago I had a similar experience and awoke to it giving me a 10% battery warning after charging it fully right before falling asleep. The last time it happened, I power-cycled both devices and everything seemingly went back to normal until last night.
YMMV, my battery drain issue seems to have been resolved. Some of this may be overkill but it's the general process I typically follow (ever since issues with my iPhone 4S back in the day).
I updated my iPhone to Update 5 and did a hard reset. I monitored the Watch for a couple of hours and believe that I was still seeing a drain issue. I then closed out all apps on my phone and restarted. I then unpaired then re-paired the Watch (requiring me to do some post pairing tasks as described in this thread by others). I then hard reset the Watch (pressed both the crown and second button simultaneously until it restarts and you see the Apple logo). Then I ensured it charged to 100% and monitored the battery percentage.
At this point my Watch battery was back to its typical ~2 day usage before needing a recharge. That was ~ 29 hours ago and my Watch currently shows 36% left. Though note that I am not generally a heavy user on my Watch. What exactly fixed it - I do not know, but this worked for me. Good luck!
