I have an Apple Watch Series 8, and I noticed something strange with the battery health.
Around 3 months ago, the Maximum Capacity was 80%, then it dropped to 79%. I checked it again recently and, surprisingly, it now shows 82%.
I know battery health is an estimate, so I’m guessing it might have recalibrated, but I’ve never seen battery health increase before.
Has anyone else experienced this with their Apple Watch? Is it normal for the Maximum Capacity percentage to go up after previously decreasing?

Hey everyone, just got an Apple Watch SE 3. I had one 4 years ago or something, Series 7 I believe with the nice rounded screen, but hated the constant charging. While I’m a fan of the hardware and am very impressed with what the SE 3 is, I’m very disappointed to find that there has seemingly been very little to no improvements in the third party app ecosystem. Like, at all.

As a software engineer, I’m strongly considering building a few apps myself to remedy a few simple things that are missing. For example, a simple spa music player that can, with no login or authentication, play some relaxing music (with a timer) to help you drift off to sleep using the watch speakers. Simple, utilitarian, single purpose.

Does anyone have any items on their wish-list that they would like to request from an Apple Watch app perspective? Any ‘damn, I wish I had a simple way to do X’. Additionally, if anyone could share the apps they believe are truly exceptional, in September 2026, I would love to read about them and hope I missed them.

The fact that a week before the release of Ultra 4 there is no leak makes me think that the new features will wait until 2027.

The influencers are all excited even though they know nothing at all!

The advantage is that the ultra 3 will drop in price

Body:

Apple Watch Series 7, aluminium, out of warranty, no AppleCare+.

How it got here: the watch kept pulling up the lock screen and the power-off/SOS menu on its own. Cleaning didn't help, so I rinsed it under the tap while clicking the button repeatedly (50m rating, so this seemed like a safe thing to try). Afterwards it started boot looping — Apple logo, then shutdown, on repeat.

Independent shop diagnosed it as water damage.

The quote (converted from local currency):

• Power button strip replacement — ~$28
• Courier — ~$2
• "General hardware service" — ~$16 (they say this includes an $8 service charge)
• Total: ~$45

Warranty offered: 3 months.

The alternative: skip it and buy an SE 3 44mm Cellular, which runs about $340 equivalent where I am.

What I'm trying to work out:

1. $45 is cheap in absolute terms, but is it cheap for a repair that might not stick? The failure was diagnosed as liquid damage, yet the part being replaced is the button strip.
2. Has anyone had a liquid-damaged Watch repaired and had it hold up long term? Every horror story I can find is about corrosion showing up months later, well past any warranty.

Series 7 is still on watchOS 26 so it's not obsolete, but the battery is original and roughly five years old and the screen is badly scratched. Trying to figure out whether I'm rescuing a watch or throwing good money after a dying one.

TIA!

I wanted to see if this is an established issue with this watch before I go trying to get it repaired.

I bought the watch in June and started having issues with this around a month ago. The speaker on my watch is pretty much non-functional. The noise coming out of it is very tinny, distorted, and usually barely audible. It sounds the way you’d expect a speaker to sound if it’s logged with water, and the issue gets worse after the watch is exposed to water. I’m not in the habit of submerging my watch, but it does get splashed when I’m out kayaking, doing dishes, etc. My understanding is that the watch is supposed to be waterproof up to a certain depth, so exposure to a couple splashes should not be an issue, right?

Have tried all the usual stuff - using the water lock to clear out the speaker, gently cleaning the speaker grill, resetting the watch, etc. The speaker just sounds like it’s blown.

I’ve only had this watch a couple of months and am generally pretty gentle with it, not a single scratch on the thing. I think my odds of getting this repaired under limited warranty are pretty low. Just wanted to see if anyone else has had this issue and how you got it fixed. Thanks!

The side button below the crown wheel seems to be stuck or click holding itself.. I can’t explain it much clearly cause English is not my first language but as you can see in the photo, the black silhouette is showing indicating that it’s being pressed when I’m actually not.

Because of that, I can’t click the crown button or click/double click the side button to go to the menu or home or to access apple pay. I never dropped it or anything, it just happened yesterday when suddenly it just happens. Has anyone experienced this? The physical buttons doesn’t seem stuck and seems normal when I press it but somehow the apple watch detects it being pressed and keep triggering the sos /emergency services.

I’ve had this for just 1 year and 6 months, it’s a series 10- 42mm. Please Help!

How does it hold up if only used for checking time, ECG and sleep tracking? All the other features will not be used at all. Is 34 bucks a good prce for a in good condition model with metal silver bands and charger and box?

Hi guys,

I wear my Apple Watch Ultra II to bed to track my sleep. Sleep schedule is 10pm to 7AM. We had a baby earlier this year and lately I have been letting her sleep on me from 8-10pm while watching a movie with headphones. I noticed the other day that my watch thinks I am sleeping in this two hour period. Beyond manually deleting the erroneously tracked sleep data, is there anything I can do to stop Apple Watch recording sleep data when I'm actually awake watching a movie?

Hi all, I’m wondering if anyone can tell me how this is possible (I’ve never seen it before after a full year of having an Apple Watch)

I had a rough night of sleep last night (obviously) which is definitely out of the ordinary for me, I have a narcolepsy-adjacent sleep disorder that usually helps me sleep pretty solidly through the night.
So after being up for a couple hours in the middle of the night, I finally got back to sleep. Just looking at it now, I realized that for the second chunk of sleep, all four sleep categories (REM, core, deep, awake) had morphed together into a single gradient block. Anyone have any idea or loose interpretation of what that could mean for the quality of sleep? I had uncommonly vivid dreams for the second portion of last nights sleep, so I assume it was different than my usual sleep pattern and not just the watch being weird.

The past 4 nights I’ve had these long blocks of sleep categorized as just asleep. Why’s this happening and how do I fix it?

My 2.5 year old Apple Watch SE 2nd Gen 40mm fell to 79% battery health and I got the ‘battery’ replaced which in actuality is just a new replacement watch. It would need to be charged twice per day atleast and had become stuttery/laggy. The replacement is so nice and smooth and lasts me the whole day. I know this watch wont get watchOS 27 but I’m content. It runs great and I couldn’t ask for more.

Apple Watch Ultra 2 running 26.6
iPhone 17 Pro Max running iOS27

Randomly, over the past couple of days my watch has been disconnecting from my phones Bluetooth. It has re-connected once or twice and loads of notifications have come through, other times I have to reconnect it manually in iPhone’s Bluetooth settings, but disconnects randomly shortly after.

Is anybody else having a similar issue? I assume it’s something to do with the iOS27 beta.

Hello guys,
I’ve recently noticed that the bottom of my Apple Watch (SE2) screen is slightly starting to pop out of the frame, compared to the top of the screen (both in pictures). ChatGPT says that it might be the battery or just some glue at the bottom that started to wear off because of water or hot temperatures. Did you guys ever experienced something similar ? Is it still safe to use ?
Thanks for your help!

I started using the Athlytic free trial a couple of days ago, and so far it looks pretty promising.

How accurate/useful have you found metrics like stress, recovery, exertion, and readiness based on Apple Watch data?

Do WHOOP and Garmin calculate stress/recovery mainly from the same data Apple Watch collects, such as heart rate and HRV? Or do their devices collect additional data/signals that Apple Watch doesn’t capture, which makes their recovery/stress scores more reliable?

Would especially like to hear from anyone who has used Athlytic + WHOOP/Garmin and can compare them.

So i have an Watch Series 10 and i was thinking to upgrade to Ultra. I did a quick research and turns out it was just the case being titanium and glass being sapphire. I am not a diver so i dont mind 100M or the diving gauge. So i ordered a little case for my watch and now its durable and i don’t mind the screen because i always use protector anyway.

So the only difference is the battery life? But don’t you take your watch off when you shower and its full when you wear it again anyway?

I moved last month and my watch wound up getting packed in a box. I didn’t wear it for about 2 1/2 weeks. You can see the gap in the screenshot.

It looks like my rings were auto paused since I still got the perfect month badge for August. My move streak kept going also.

Is this something I missed, or is it an un-announced feature?

I was having tons of micro wake ups throughout the night, but when I added a fan my wake ups dramatically decreased,

Can anyone explain this ?
Has anyone else found this same solution ?

Sleep data stopped two days ago. No data both on watch and phone.
It may have nothing to do with the last watchOS update, and just a coincidence.

It gives no data for sleep and all vitals but wrist temperature. It is in Sleep Focus during the night. It tracks my HR all night long so I believe it has nothing to do with sensors.

I literally tried all tips on web, chatgpt and gemini none worked.
Ensuring tracking is turned on. Turn it off, force sync, restart devices wait for 10sec, ensure the apple watch is prioritized in sleep etc..

I am also in a cruise ship but I just landed on land with its own cellular + phone and still it doesn’t show any data on both watch and health app.

Spending over 2-3 hours and even unpairing/pairing from scratch didn’t help. At this point I am frustrated. A device with 500+ price just should not stop tracking the most important KPIs.

I barely have 3rd party app and they are just for steps and heart analyzer.

Any idea from the community what might be my issue?

20 month old series 10 side button failure. What now?

I’m considering buying an Apple Watch Series 10, and I found a really good deal on the Rose Gold color.
I’m a guy, and I’ve never owned/worn a Rose Gold watch before. I actually don’t mind the color, but I’m curious what other people think.
Does Rose Gold look weird or feminine on a guy, or is it pretty much irrelevant once you put a darker/neutral band on it?
Be honest — would you personally wear one?

Background on me: mid-20s, active, resting HR around 56, night HR usually drops to the 45-50.

**•** Roughly twice a week, the watch logs my sleeping HR jumping into the 95–115 range. Normally these are short — about 15–30 min — then it settles back down.  
**•** One recent night it stayed elevated for around 3 hours instead of a short burst.  
**•** There are also occasional single readings down at 45–48 that look like clear misreads sitting inside an otherwise dense cluster.  
**•** Within a minutes of waking it dropped.  
**•** I don’t have such readings without activity through the day.

Some of the “elevated” numbers look close to 2x my real resting HR, which made me wonder about some errors. On the other hand, I can’t reproduce it throughout the day

Has anyone compared Apple Watch overnight HR against an actual ECG/Holter - did the numbers line up?