WatchOS 10 battery life

GeoCart wrote:

I get tired of people blaming Mobyfox app.

Quite a number of people who deleted the app saw the problem disappear. So, why shouldn't they blame it? Apparently, the developers of the app dropped the ball. Thousands of other third-party apps are not causing a problem.

After a few days, power cycle both the Apple Watch and the iPhone. That generally resolves any issues.

I discovered a few updates ago that after you update the OS, you need to unpair and the repair the watch from your phone. Do this and your battery life is restored.

I unpaired and re-paired ensuring the new feature Optimized Charge Limit is NOT active and I can make it through the day now without exhausting the battery

The only battery issue I ever had on watch was os10.0.1 and I unpaired the watch, restored the phone from backup and paired the watch as new (no backup)

I have 50% left at bedtime,

Ok so at 5.20pm today it was at 19%

it’s now 6.07pm and battery has just flashed 10% remaining. so in space of 47 mins it’s dropped 9%

something defiantly wrong

edit: I do wonder about some of the complications…

I had noticed the rain complication randomly shows nothing it just displays two dashes (not updated) then sometimes it shows data , if blank I’ll I tap on it then it updates, I wonder if the watch is constantly trying to update the complication and draining battery?

my watch and phone are always pretty much next to each other so I found it weird data was sometimes not being shown….

The sources and severity of this issue seems to vary so much it's doubtful that any one work-around will help everyone. Turning off the Noise app did help me, some, and I suspect it will help others, some. It's certainly worth trying before nuking everything.

Don’t throw in the towel yet… That’s what they want you to do… I guess they need their stock to increase. Update the new iOS wipe to watch clean to factory reinstall it as new watch,without using any back ups. Your watch should be back to normal.

You can't really judge based on the first 24-48 hours after a major update. A lot of things are still finishing up in the background.

Restart your phone full power down and Iwatch. That seems to resolve this issue for me for now.

I then put my watch into power save and it used 30% in 24+ hours. Much better !

Ended up resetting my watch completely, deleting every single convenience app, and just leaving it as a basic stock watch and it’s back to the battery life I had before the update.

My battery got worse as well from two days to barely a day, and now I have to even use battery saving mode to last through the day uninstall all the apps and turn off background app refresh.

I don’t really want to use the product if I constantly have to think about its battery life, And not his usefulness. Voice to text recognition got much better, but nothing else practically for me. Kind of disappointing and discouraging to see that happen to a battery life.

I have tried all the steps through the overnight off battery drain. Nothing has changed. Overnight drain was nothing. When I turned it on it was still at 100%. 3 hours later, in low power mode, I was at 62%. There are no apps on the watch other than the native included apps. This seems to indicate a problem with Apple's OS since nothing other than their stuff is on my watch.

Gilles wrote:

Not sure to understand how I reply to my own question.

If you mean watch OS 10 is the issue, yes it is.

I'll have another check to your links, but if after having restored my watch, I need to restore my iphone, I'm not a beta tester.

There are dozen of people having the same issue on different forums.

No I mean everything you said points to hardware. Oldish watch, same problem on OS9 and 10, tried all the remedies in the user tip, faulty watch, contact Apple support

MarkESXUK wrote:

Had has literally overnight since downloading the update gone from approx 2.2days between charges to around 24hrs . My watch was at 100% at 11pm last night when I woke up it was on 74% at 8am. It’s now 5.20pm and the watch is showing 19%my faith in Apple is rapidly declining

Unless you have an Ultra, that sounds about right. Which model watch do you have? The only version Apple advertises battery life longer than 18 hours is the Ultra. And that's best case scenario. Depending on other factors, it may be somewhat less.