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Apple Watch 4 6.2.8 battery drain at night

I have an Apple Watch series 4 that I have had over a year. I typically will wear it overnight (theater mode so it doesn’t light up, and it’s a perfect silent haptic alarm), wear it throughout the day, and charge it for about 1 1/2 hour to 100% in the evenings before night time. It used to be that overnight the battery drain was around 15% to 85%. However, since the update to 6.2.8, the battery drains nearly 50% overnight, and it will be at 10% or less by 3pm.


Any input or update about this problem would be greatly appreciated.

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Posted on Aug 8, 2020 9:10 AM

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Posted on Aug 10, 2020 11:06 AM

Figured it out. It seems that during the night when I’m wearing my watch, it is attempting to sync my “Heavy Rotation” music. I don’t know if this is by design that it just works when the phone is plugged in or just scheduled at night or...whatever. Regardless, turned it off, and in 6 hours of sleep, battery drained down to only 86%. Back to normal.

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Aug 10, 2020 11:06 AM in response to smpowell

Figured it out. It seems that during the night when I’m wearing my watch, it is attempting to sync my “Heavy Rotation” music. I don’t know if this is by design that it just works when the phone is plugged in or just scheduled at night or...whatever. Regardless, turned it off, and in 6 hours of sleep, battery drained down to only 86%. Back to normal.

Apple Watch 4 6.2.8 battery drain at night

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