watchOS 7 beta 4 battery life

Same thing happening to me.

My battery drain is even more extreme. I take the watch off charge when I receive fully charged notification and within 4 hours and 15 minutes, the watch powers off due to dead battery. Apple Watch Series 4.

I am having the same issue. I was hoping that it may have been resolved with beta 5. unfortunately that is not the case. :(

BTW, I have provided feedback to Apple.

Same thing happening with the WatchOS public beta 2 (which I assume corresponds to dev beta 4 or 5). The watch is literally burning through battery. It is hot to the touch. I also notice that Activity monitoring no longer works - does not register any activity. This is on a series 4

Same thing happened with my Series 4. While using developer beta it was going smooth after installing on June 23rd. After installing public beta i hardly got battery backup for 8-10 hrs which i used to get almost 2 days. I tried to return back to developer beta but still same. Battery is draining so fast. Today i installed developer beta 7 in both iphone & watch. But still same.I raised this issue to developer team but no feedback from them after submitting on 20th August. I just left my watch without using this.

Any idea how to resolve this ?

I have the same issue. Watch Series 4 - battery consumption is like crazy.

I had the same terrible battery drain with Watch OS 7 beta 8. In less than an hour after taking it off the charger, my Series 3 would inform me that I had 10% battery left.

However, this last time, I was away from my charger so I kept wearing the watch until it shut down.
When I charged the watch and it restarted, battery drain appeared to return to normal. I've been running now for about 3 hours and I'm still at 92%. fingers crossed

I noticed frequent diagnostic log generation on my AW5, using public release of ios14/watchos7, and dug in. The "heart study" app, which the study has now closed, was throwing tons of errors in watchos7. I've deleted it from the phone/watch, and will see if this changes battery life. If you have the heart study app, check your diagnostics and see if that was causing errors. Errors & crashes cause massive battery drain from what I have read.

I am seeing the same thing with the 7 final version.

It would be 30-40% by the end of the day (10pm), it hit 10% by 3:30pm today after the upgrade yesterday.

I have series 4 which I upgraded to Watch OS 7 public release just today. I charged the watch to 100% at around 1 PM and at 7 PM on same day it is at 38%.

I generally have battery life of more than a day. There must be something wrong with this upgrade.

I put the new OS7 on my Apple watch 5 last night. I got up at 6:00 am and by noon it was 28%. I charged it for an hour and by 6:00 pm it was completely dead. I have only had this watch for 10 months and I could always go all day and still have over 25% battery remaining. I am assuming it has something to do with the new watch face, but I really have no idea. There is no point in even owning it if it is dead when you go to look at the time. This update needs and update ASAP.

I turned off the notifications for the Heart app, and my battery (so far) is now draining normally. There are three options for notifications--high pulse, low pulse, and irregular heart beat. It seems to me that the Heart app, as originally set up, is acting as a Holter monitor, and the average person does not need this level of heart tracking. However, if a user needs the watch to do such tracking, simply turn on the notifications and charge the watch as often as possible.

I also experience this issue last beta and watchos7 both drain my watch series 4 in about 6 hours when it used to last for min of 12. Called Apple care abd they think I need to replace the battery but it’s out of warranty... I kindly said that I don’t believe it’s the battery and to please find out what is causing this issue. I have restarted and link my watch 2 times today I will do one more test tomorrow. The biggest issue if this doesn’t get fix soon I don’t think this is the right company for me. I asked if I can go back to watchOS 6 but they said I can’t go back once watchOS 7 has been installed..... I am all in for improving software but if I’m getting only half of battery time in watch it’s not worth it.

Just adding my comments to this, since WatchOS 7 was installed my Watch is dying in less than half a day. Previously I was ending each day at between 40-50% battery left. But WatchOS 7 (on both my cellular and none cellular Series 4) has done the same thing.

Is it possible to downgrade as it's not usable currently.

Me too, after the update watchos 7 my battery is not good anymore.

Having the exact same issue here. Apple Watch 5 (Bought in February) and usually have 40 - 50% left at the end of the day with heavy use.

Yesterday after installing WatchOS7 and having a VERY LIGHT usage day (blood donation = no heavy exercise) I had 10% battery left at 6pm. Something is very very wrong.

Yeah I have a Series 4, been super problem free. Did the update to iOS7 over the weekend, 3 days ago, and it's been super low battery by the time I go to bed. This afternoon just got a notice that it's at 10%! Still about 6-7 hours away from when I normally doc it. Update the update, Apple.

Try turning the hand washing off. I haven't tried this yet but other people have told me that this fixes the battery issue.

I'm having the same problem. I ran with my watch this morning, then charged it again while in the shower but it's already at 16% and it's only 2:30pm.

We need an update please.

Same thing here ! I have a Series 3 and until WatchOS 7 I could easily go through a day, even two sometimes. Now I'm happy if I end up with a functional watch at the end of the day. Maybe the new faster animations?

I've updated my Apple Watch 4 to 7.0.1 earlier today and since it seems as if the battery drain has stopped (even though battery usage wasn't mentioned in the update notes)

I had the same issue with aw4 cell. Read about resolvibh it with unpairing watch and then pair again. Didn’t believe it to work but tried anyway and it actually did work. Now the battery life is as good as new.

Exact same issue here.

I have a series 4 apple watch. I was getting 17 to 18 hours per day before I had to charge my watch. I installed version 7.01 and my battery life dropped to 3 or 4 hours per day. I called apple and they said that when you get a new version installed it takes more battery life. I said that is crazy, that clearly there was something wrong with this new version of the operating system. She also said there was no way to go back to a previous version. She said I need a new battery and it would cost $325 for a service call. I went nuts and she changed it, said, "oh wait" a new battery is only $79. Cleary there is something wrong with this version of the OS. You shouldn't have to buy a new battery just because you upgrade to a new OS. Or at least you should be able to go back to a previous version. I have an Iphone 11 pro and my apple watch and my wife is about to buy an iphone 12 max. I am seriously thinking of changing my mind and switching to Samsung. They should either fix this OS or give you a new battery.

Same watch, same issue. Hoping next beta release will fix the issue.