close
close

topicnews · September 25, 2024

Users complain: watchOS 11 drains battery in hours

Users complain: watchOS 11 drains battery in hours

Since the first Apple Watch, Apple has stated the same battery life for its watch: 18 hours. But since the launch of watchOS 11, some users have disagreed online. The most common complaint is that their Apple Watch discharges in hours, with six to seven hours being mentioned. This is not a faulty battery charge display, because the watch switches off after displaying one percent charge.

We became aware of the problems with watchOS 11 via the Reddit post linked above. Specifically, it concerns a new Apple Watch Series 10, but in the comments below, as well as on other social media, people are complaining about the battery decline since the update. But it’s not just the Series 10 that’s affected; there are similar reports on Twitter about the Apple Watch Ultra 2:

Series 9:

The error is also known in the Apple developer forums, the oldest post dates from August 24, 2024. At that time, watchOS 11 Beta 5 was current, one of the watchOS developers contacted the author and asked for log data from the Apple Watch and iPhone. Apparently nothing or very little has happened so far, the beta testers now feel like their own error reports are two pages below the first forum post. It is also not known what exactly caused such battery problems under watchOS 11.

Some users write that disabling Live Activity and syncing Photo Memories has helped some users, but this is not a universal solution, as for others these settings have only helped sporadically.

Last year, Apple also had to fix the battery problems of watchOS 10 with a sub-item update. At that time, it affected watchOS 10.1, but Apple released an update that corrected the error within two weeks.

You may also like...