Weird Battery Drain on Apple Watch

By Ayub, 1 February, 2026

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Apple Beta Releases

Hello All,

For those out there that have an Apple Watch, is anyone having battery drain issues with their Apple Watch? I have an Apple Watch series 10, GPS.
My watchOS is on the latest version 26.3 Beta 2.
My battery health is at 100% still, which means it's pretty new still.
Any ideas?

Thank you,
Ayub

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Comments

By Maldalain on Sunday, February 1, 2026 - 05:22

Mine is 7th Gen and it is just fine and updated to the latest WatchOS.

By Apple-fan01 on Sunday, February 1, 2026 - 12:18

My battery is working just as it is supposed.
I suggest you turn off background app refresh

By Brian Borowski on Sunday, February 1, 2026 - 13:22

I had this problem a while after an older WatchOs upgrade and Apple's advice was restart; which actually did fix the problem. So, if you haven't already done so, try that. I don't know what else to suggest; see if screen-on is always on, see if there are too many other apps running, etc.

Brian Borowski

By Quinton Williams on Sunday, February 1, 2026 - 19:15

Make sure the always on display is turned off.
I'd accidentally enabled it on my last watch and the battery drain was pretty noticeable.
It's under the display settings in the watch app.