watchOS 7.3 battery drain issue

Same issue. I have a series 3 and could normally wear my phone all day no problem and have plenty of battery life left when I get off work. Now it seems like it gets to about 70% and completely dies. I make it to about noon and then it shuts off. I’ve never seen it get to 50% even. Very frustrating when I suddenly have no watch. I charge it and then it turns back on but the battery is far from dead so it’s like there’s something wrong with whatever triggers the phone to shut down due to low battery. They need to fix this ASAP. Not cool! I’m going to see if I can restore it to an earlier version of iOS until they get this fixed.

Oh and I’m getting tired of having to reset my whole watch just to update it because they weren’t smart enough to give the v3 more memory. I can have all apps off and nothing else running and it still says there’s not enough space to update. But that’s a different problem for a different forum.

Same issue here. IWatch 4, WiFi only. Battery was fine till 7.3 update. Now burns approx 50% faster. I did all the recommended suggestions. I turned off “all the things” that I had always kept on just to try and save power. I rebooted phone and watch, unpaired and re-paired from back up, unpaired and re-paired as a new watch… Everything, nothing works. Please fix this bug and send out an update patch!

Same issue here. After updating to 7.3.1 a couple of days ago, my series 6 and my husband's series 5 drain faster than when they were at previous version. Please fix the issue. Thanks.

using AW6 BT with all battery saving setting possible. No 3rd party app's, location off, no background refresh. No sleep tracking. Place my watch on airplane mode with BT off before going to bed. I get a standby drain of 10-15% within 8 hours...its ridiculous drain... there something continuously running in the background...
please if you'll rectify it soon...will be of great help.

Experiencing the same problem. Apple Watch Series 4. Used to get about 36 hours wearing while sleeping as well. Now down to about 15. Happened with 7.3.

Same here. Watch 3 - complete disaster with battery Drain after update.

Same here. Apple Watch 3. Before update I got from fully charged 1,5 day with sleep tracking 2 nights and 1 PT session. Now I am down to under 50% from just one night (8 h sleep). Absolute disaster!!!

I have an Apple Watch series 5 with cellular and upgraded to 7.3. Last night, it was fully charged when I went to sleep. In 12 hours the battery is completely dead. Please fix this!!!

How are you guys doing after 7.3.2 update?

I’ve had only this issue since 7.3.2.
But the drain is crazy, my first day 100% in the morning and by 15 it was at 11% and now after a charge at night I went to bed 7 to 8 hours and woke up to 22%, all night in sleep mode :(

Same issue with 4 series. My watch used to be at 30-40% at the end of the day no matter how active or long a workout I would Have. But now I’m lucky if it’s 5-10% by the evening.
and my battery health is at 93%.

Same here.
Apple watch series 4 (WatchOS 7.3.2). Went to bed at 100% ,and woke up at 12%. It was in sleep mode all night. From 12% to 0 less than 10 min.
This is a bad bug. I can't use by watch in this mode. Must be fixed this issue very fast.

Series 5 and in the past 6 hours I have dropped to 58%. At this rate, I wont make it the entire work day. I even did a hard reset and tried repairing to my phone.

PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP.

I got the same problems! This is driving me so mad!

Same here!

I have the Apple Watch 5, bought it 8 months ago after having purchased the original Apple Watch and the Apple Watch 2. I upgraded for more features and because I didn’t want to have to charge it TWICE during the day.

Before the 7.3.2 update for the Apple Watch, I would put my watch on after I wake up, sometimes lay around in bed, go run, hit the gym and still have 70% after all of this! Was rare for me to get below 45% on a really active day, now? I wake up, put on my watch and if I hit snooze a couple of times, when I get up, my watch is at 89%! And no, I’m not using it as an alarm clock. Today, just walking around my house, I haven’t even RUN or hit the gym yet, I’m at 75%. Which by the time I run and hit the gym, who knows? With this kind of battery drain in such a quick time frame, how in the world would a person be able to use the sleep function? It’s ridiculous.

might seem petty, being upset that my watch is 11% down after wearing while hitting snooze, but when you compare it to my watch being down to 95-96% in the same instance BEFORE the update, you see the problem. Power being drained at almost 2X what it was before the update. After a heavy day at the gym and a run, for the first time my watch fell to 15%, I figured I’d hit it really hard that day. I hadn’t. And no, I don’t have very many push notifications. Just fitness, phone, text. That’s all.

Apple needs to fix this.