Apple Watch battery drain issue – How to fix

Does your Apple Watch battery is draining too quickly? The watches from Apple offer a comparatively lower battery backup. So, if you are not using any of the Watch Ultra iterations, your watch should go for 18–20 hours on a single charge. But, if your watch battery is draining up too quickly, and you have to charge the watch on a daily basis, these are the solutions that may help.

 

Fix 1 – Turn off the Always On display

The Always On function of the watch consumes a lot of battery. So, you should turn that off.

Step 1 – Tap the crown button once.

Step 2 – Next, tap the Settings to open it up.

 

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Step 3 – Thereafter, go to the “Display & Brightness” option.

 

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Step 4 – Look for the “Always On” option and turn that off.

Step 5 (Optional) – Additionally, you can go ahead and turn off the “Wake on Wrist Raise” option as well.

 

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Turning off these two settings should help you resolve the issue.

 

Fix 2 – Reduce the wake duration

The more time the watch keeps awake, the more it eats up the watch battery.

Step 1 – Load up the Settings page on your watch one more time.

Step 2 – Open up the “Display & Brightness” option.

 

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Step 3 – Start to scroll down until you found the “Wake Duration” option. Tap on it.

 

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Step 4 – Reduce it to the “Wake for 15 Seconds” option from there.

 

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This should help the watch conserve more battery.

 

Fix 3 – Choose a dark watch face

A dark, still watch face consumes less charge compared to a colorful, animated watch face. So, you should choose a watch face that has a dark background, with minimal animations and little to no complications at all.

Step 1 – Open up the Watch app on your iPhone.

Step 2 – Go to the “Face Gallery” pane.

Step 3 – Select a very simple watch face with dark background.

 

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The battery problem will be fixed on your Apple Watch.

 

Fix 4 – Disable the Listen for Hey Siri

A function of the Apple Watch, always remain wake where it listens for ‘Hey Siri’ prompt.

Step 1 – To turn this off, head on to the Settings page on your watch.

 

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Step 2 – You have to open up the “Siri” feature, here.

 

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Step 3 – Disable the “Listen for Hey Siri” prompt request from there.

 

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You must get a positive return from this modification.

 

Fix 5 – Turn on Low Power Mode

Low Power Mode cuts off many features on the watch that should help it conserve more battery.

Step 1 – Tap the side button on the Apple Watch.

Step 2 – Next, just tap the battery sign to open the battery page on the watch settings.

 

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Step 3 – Tap to turn on the “Low Power Mode” on your wearable.

 

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Your Apple Watch should last longer after enacting this one.

 

Fix 6 – Turn off Measure Sounds option

Your watch is continuously listening to the surrounding to alert you of excessive sound.

Step 1 – Load up the Settings utility on the watch.

Step 2 – Go down through the list of apps, until you have reached the “Noise” utility.

 

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Step 3 – After loading up that utility, open up the “Environmental Sound Measurements” section.

 

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Step 4 – Later, disable the “Measure Sounds” option.

 

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Track the battery status on the watch.

 

Fix 7 – Delete unnecessary apps

Try removing unnecessary apps from your watch to save more battery.

Step 1 – Hit the crown once to load up the list of apps.

Step 2 – Next, find any unnecessary apps in there. Once you found it, hold down the app.

Step 3 – You will see a small cross hovering on that app. Tap that.

 

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Step 4 – Tap the “Delete App” button to delete that application from watch.

 

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Check if this works or not.

 

Fix 8 – Disable background refresh for unwanted apps

If you allow too many apps in the background to refreshed, they can eat away too much power.

Step 1 – At first, load up the Settings page on watch.

Step 2 – Go to the “General” option.

 

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Step 3 – Touch to open up the “Background App Refresh” feature.

 

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Step 4 – Go through the entire list of apps and disable any app that you don’t need right away.

 

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These following fixes should have helped you increase the battery backup on your watch.

Hope these fixes have helped you!