Pixel Watch owners are reporting sudden battery drain of up to 20% every few hours, with complaints clustering around a recent software update.

The scale of the reports matters here. This is not isolated user error. A coordinated surge of online complaints points to a systemic issue, likely triggered server-side or via a Wear OS patch, not hardware failure.

No fix is confirmed yet. The original piece is worth reading for the user-reported timelines and workarounds being tested in the wild, which will tell you whether your watch is next.

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