iPhone Excessive Battery Drain Apple Watch since iOS 13 Beta 5

[Dwood1970]

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Guess watchOS 6 beta is the way to go. Here is my data. Apple Watch series 4.

Yeah I’ve read that people on the watch beta are fine.

 

[nanohits]

Yeah same issue here. Hope they fix it in the next beta. Doesnt last me more than a day anymore. Before almost 2 days;

 

[crackarack]

The suggestion from Reddit (setting weather to location -never) did not stop the drain for me. I’ve submitted feedback to Apple and will wait for the next iOS beta build (watch is beta is not available to me bc of profile restrictions from my job).

 

[danipersing]

Yeah I’ve read that people on the watch beta are fine.

I thought that was the case too, so, I installed Watch beta the day before yesterday. When I woke up yesterday (I wear my watch overnight), things were looking back to normal, and I had reasonable battery life throughout the day yesterday. Went to bed last night with a fully charged watch, and woke up this morning at 56%. I don't know what the answer is.

 

[crackarack]

I thought that was the case too, so, I installed Watch beta the day before yesterday. When I woke up yesterday (I wear my watch overnight), things were looking back to normal, and I had reasonable battery life throughout the day yesterday. Went to bed last night with a fully charged watch, and woke up this morning at 56%. I don't know what the answer is.

Ruh roh Apple

 

[George Knighton]

Yeah I’ve read that people on the watch beta are fine.

That's also what I'm hearing. I've never used beta firmware on the Watch before, but I might give up and try it later today.

 

[Mighuel]

I got this same problem with XS Max & Series 4. Reported it to Apple. Hopefully we get a new iOS beta next week..

 

[MEJHarrison]

I thought that was the case too, so, I installed Watch beta the day before yesterday. When I woke up yesterday (I wear my watch overnight), things were looking back to normal, and I had reasonable battery life throughout the day yesterday. Went to bed last night with a fully charged watch, and woke up this morning at 56%. I don't know what the answer is.

The beta has been great for me. I've not noticed any unusual drain.

 

[IslesFan]

I bit the bullet and installed the watchOS 6 beta. Looks like my drain is gone.

 

[boxermansr]

Hopefully a new iOS 13 Beta will drop today (or at least this week). I won't consider moving to the WatchOS Beta unless it's absolutely necessary, as things are working just fine for me right now with iOS 13 Beta 4, but with my luck Apple will trigger some sort of expiration for the older betas, forcing an upgrade to one of the newer ones. Ideally, hopeful they will have it fixed in Beta 6.

 

[Dwood1970]

Hopefully a new iOS 13 Beta will drop today (or at least this week). I won't consider moving to the WatchOS Beta unless it's absolutely necessary, as things are working just fine for me right now with iOS 13 Beta 4, but with my luck Apple will trigger some sort of expiration for the older betas, forcing an upgrade to one of the newer ones. Ideally, hopeful they will have it fixed in Beta 6.

Yeah I hope so. Because I’m not going to do a watch beta.

 

[Lobwedgephil]

I had this one day, every other day has been normal. But one day my watch was out of battery by 2pm, which is normally in the 80% left.

 

[atlchamp]

My watch was from 100 to 70% in 2 hours with no use at all...its insane...no fixes at all?

 

[KUKitch]

I can concur... I’ve noticed this on mine in the last few days - didn’t think about the phone update being the culprit!

 

[boxermansr]

My watch was from 100 to 70% in 2 hours with no use at all...its insane...no fixes at all?

Hopefully iOS 13 Beta 6 will fix it, was hoping it would have been released today, hopefully tomorrow, or at least this week.

 

[themattsanity]

I ended up going back to iOS 13 Beta 4, and so far so good. Co-worker kept his (also an Xs Max) on Beta 5 (and watch on 5.3) and his watch down to 10% within 5 1/2 hours with nothing more than checking a few texts and looking at the time. Usage and standby both showed within 2 minutes of each other (so it "slept" at some point for 2 minutes). Something in Beta 5 is keeping the watch from sleeping.

I'm not going to try the WatchOS beta again, as there's no way for me to downgrade myself in the event things get worse with the next WatchOS beta, and the last WatchOS beta I tried gave me nothing but problems, so had to send my watch off to be downgraded.

how did you get back to ios 13 beta 4?

 

[boxermansr]

how did you get back to ios 13 beta 4?

I always backup my device in iTunes and archive the backup every time I update. When I upgraded to Beta 5 and saw the watch drain I put device in recovery and restored with the Beta 4 IPSW, and restored the backup.

 

[daniel.photowork]

Since updating to Beta 5 (iOS), my Series 4 (on Watch OS 5.3) has been draining battery 1% every 8-10 minutes. I did not have this issue with Beta 4 (iOS). If I check the watch app on my phone and look at general -> usage -- its showing that the watch is pretty much never going to sleep (it shows the two minute amounts at almost the same exact number, or off by a few minutes -- likely because there are periods where I put it into Theater Mode).

I've unpaired and re-paired and no change.

(I posted this in the Beta 5 release thread but figured I'd post here as well for those who may not look at that thread).

I did this:

Step 1: Unpair Apple Watch

Step 2: Close all apps on iPhone and (if you have one) iPad

Step 3: Reset iPhone (and iPad). You'll lose basic settings (face/Touch ID, notifications, location settings but no apps, emails, etc.

Step 4: Set up Apple Watch as a new watch (again, you'll need to spend some time resetting stuff (watch faces, credit cards, etc.)

Took two or three hours but the battery issue was fixed for me.

 

[Hakiroto]

Yeah, same for me. My series 4 used to last a couple of days. I just travelled an hour to the airport and then did a 12 hour flight and as I got off the plane I noticed I was on 12%. I was on 100% when I left so it’s draining way faster than it should, as it is with many of you. I might hold off and hope for a new iOS beta before installing a watchOS beta.

 

[murgo]

I’m having the same problem with my S4 since Beta 5. I usually have around 60-70% left after one day. Now I’m lucky if I still have 30% left. The drain is insane.

 

[Donnation]

Yeah I’ve read that people on the watch beta are fine.

The problem with loading the watch OS6 beta is that you are locking yourself into a corner. You cannot downgrade a watch beta without sending your watch to Apple, and OS6 won't pair with your iPhone unless your phone is running iOS13.

If you put the watch beta on, you are stuck with it and iOS 13 unless you want to send your watch into Apple to have them downgrade it.

 

[Dwood1970]

The problem with loading the watch OS6 beta is that you are locking yourself into a corner. You cannot downgrade a watch beta without sending your watch to Apple, and OS6 won't pair with your iPhone unless your phone is running iOS13.

If you put the watch beta on, you are stuck with it and iOS 13 unless you want to send your watch into Apple to have them downgrade it.

Exactly which is why I won’t be doing it.

 

[Donnation]

Exactly which is why I won’t be doing it.

Me too. I’ve seriously debated it, but the easier option is to wait for the next beta or just downgrade to iOS 12.

 

[mtrctyjoe]

I am running the latest ios 13 public beta and watch 5.3. I turned off Bluetooth on my phone and that seems to be helping. Prior to that I had to put the watch in airplane mode … hopefully a new public beta drops today.

 

[Dwood1970]

I am running the latest ios 13 public beta and watch 5.3. I turned off Bluetooth on my phone and that seems to be helping. Prior to that I had to put the watch in airplane mode … hopefully a new public beta drops today.

Yeah I can’t do that. I listen to podcasts most of the day at work on my AirPods. I just keep my charger at work and give it a quick charge before I head to the gym. It’s not looking good for a public beta this week since there is no developer beta as of yet.