Battery drain on watchOS 11.2 - again?

[AnInanimateCarbonRod]

watchOS 11.0 was horrible for battery life on my Series 9, losing ~50% in 12 hours or less after taking it off the charger.

watchOS 11.1 fixed that for me and cut battery drain in half - only losing ~25-30% in 14-16 hours. Pretty much where I was with watchOS 10.

But watchOS 11.2 is right back to the awful drain, the same as it was with watchOS 11.0. Just curious if anyone else is experiencing this?

 

[waw74]

I did feel that mine used more battery after I idid the update.

but I've learned to not make final judgements until several days after OS updates, don't know if it's doing cleanup in the background, or if the updates just reset the battery calibration, and it needs a few cycles to get back. If it's the calibration, it's better for them to underestimate where your battery is, better to have a watch show a low percentage for a longer time, than to shutdown at 10%.

 

[jz0309]

^^This. Give it a week, reboot and then see how it is. There’s been all this all 3 goals sync going on and who knows what else.

 

[PhillyGuy72]

Ok, not just me. I have an Ultra Gen 1, the battery in this is still pretty incredible for me (Health still at 100%), but WOW....after this update, eh. I was out yesterday with the Battery at 83%, I have this maxed out, optimized in the setting. Was gone for maybe 5 hours and came home, saw my watch was at 38%!! It was 100% this morning at 8:45am, at 4pm it's 46%, nothing else running in the background, using my Modular Ultra face

The Ultra watch has NEVER dropped this low that fast before, it wasn't like that before 11.2.

I truly hope it's from the update, still indexing from install Thurs. night. Who knows.

 

[brezz]

I’m in the same boat. It’s been about a week and battery life on my Ultra 2 is as bad as it’s ever been. Prior to os 11 I could get 36 hours no problem, with no adjustments in settings. Now on 11.2 it’s 18 hours max.

I feel like sleep tracking is the issue. I wake up and it’s drained much more than it ever did overnight.

 

[weather34]

fortunately im still getting 60-70 hours battery performance with a daily routine workout ,routine calls,messages etc on AWU2 100% capacity (purchased october 2023) . if your capacity has dropped rapidly maybe a sign of battery is now on the dreaded decline. my older S7 always lasted nearly two days but when the capacity started to decline daily battery performance declined with it once it dropped below 90% barely lasted a day when it dropped to 83% i recall barely 12 hours of use. finally when it dropped below 80% apple replaced watch as it was in the 2 year warranty window (month left) . once the decline kicks in it can be a rapid drop as i experienced. fwiw i have NOT seen widespread reporting of battery performance loss since 11.2 was released unlike an earlier beta a few months ago.

inconvenient possible solution unpair and then repair it to iphone this helped my wife's S9 a few months ago as her watch was barely lasting 12 hours (100% capacity) afterwards or nowadays she gets a good 30-40%(regular use of calls and text etc) left prior to going to bed . probably not much help for you but worth a try

 

[MarkX]

No issues on 11.2 with AWU2, I'm still getting around 3 days with 2 hours of gps activity in there too.

Same as it ever was.

 

[AphraB]

I’ve noticed it as well. Discouraging because battery life has been terrific til now.

 

[Bichon]

I hadn't really noticed any issue with excessive battery drain, but just checked the battery health metric on my series 9 and was shocked to see that it dropped like a rock with 11.2. I was at 98% after updating to 11.1 back in October, now at 91%. 😕

 

[Jackbequickly]

Reboot and give it a week.

 

[GT Rick]

Apple doesn't care about battery life if its on your wrist its a win for them

 

[nonns]

I think my Ultra 2 battery life has reduced around 15-20% since the new update. In fact that's the main reason I was here. I didn't look at the forums and start searching for a problem to see if i had it. I think I found a problem and then looked on the forums to see if it was just me.

I've noticed that it also hasn't charged to less than 100% and that's with battery optimization on.

Its still pretty good but I think its definitely lost around 0.5 to 0.75 days use on a charge