Someone else noticing substantially worse battery life on WatchOS 10? In my case about 50% worse imo.
Apple Watch SE, watchOS 10
My SE gen 1 was more than 50% worse when I updated to watch os10.
when I tried resetting and restoring from a backup there was no improvement.
eventually I restored and set up as new watch and it is acceptable now. I have 65% left at a point in the day where I would normally be close to zero.
Same with my iwatch6
perfect before OS10 now the battery lasts 2 hours
i know it’s os10 as that is the only variant
FYI, this tip doesn't help at all, at least not for me. I switched to a watch face with only two complications, and no weather functions at all, and my battery usage now is even worse than it was before. In around 8 hours I am down to 40%. Since this is the level I used to see after 15-16 hours, I estimate that the watch is using roughly twice as much power now as it did before watchOS 10. So this the source of the problem, clearly. If anyone has spoken to Apple about this and had any answers from them, I would grateful if you could pass along what you've heard.
Darn. If it’s that bad I’d try a factory restore if that an option.
my ultra 1 has now settled down and I’m getting good battery life again. You definitely have something running that’s draining it I’d say.
I updated my Apple Watch 8 to 10.1 and the first cycle the battery just drained immediately after the update turning hotel official charger; after hard reboot this now seems under control.
My wife’s Ultra 2 (2 weeks old) is now just a dead brick as she too went from days without charging on 10.0.2 to immediate drain with 10.1 and glowing hot - reboot trick did not work. We fear to charge it and she stopped wearing.
Apple where is the 10.1.1 that fixes this back?
Same here. I contacted Apple. They had me delete the widgets which I really didn’t need. I wear my watch 24 hours except for charging and shower so I’m going to run it at low power overnight as the Apple guy suggested. We’ll see. It’s been 3 days since I updated to iOS10 and that’s when the trouble started. Not right!!
It's definitely software changes causing the degradation in battery life. Series 5 watches still have the issue after the latest update (10.1.1). Mine is the 44 mm and my wife has the 40 mm. I used to end the day with 20-25% remaining with Watch OS 9(6AM to 10PM), but now with OS 10 I end the day with 5-10% battery remaining. I told my wife to hold off on updating because of the poor battery life, but hers just updated last weekend and now her watch hasn't made it to 10PM without dying, usually by 9 or 9:30. With Watch OS 9 she was still at 10-15% at 10PM. Battery life hasn't improved after waiting days/weeks after the updates. (I know there are background processes that can cause it to drain battery faster for the first few days after an update) Also, I did a full reset and re-pair with my watch a couple weeks ago and the battery life didn't improve.
I have the 7 series and my watch battery dies in half of the time . I don’t use the always on feature and have no widgets so it has to be the software. It was fine before the iOS 10 update.
How did it run paired to your phone after restoring the phone to factory settings with no extra apps installed?
(The ultimate test)
I did a full shutdown restart in my watch settle down also. it sounds like others are still having “drain gate” occur.
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Just read on a french forum someone saying having read on the US forum, so here I guess 🤣 an issue could be with an app called Moby Face (I do not have it).
If you have, remove it
Yes, mine too… I updated my watchos 10 yesterday (September 18, 2023) and my watch battery drains in 2 to 3 hours. I charged it 100% again at 4pm and by 7pm it was 33% and that’s almost doing nothing most of the time. Before WatchOS 10 it use to be so normal and I had charge almost whole day.
shannonfromchambersburg wrote:
My watch was at 28% then all of the sudden if was at 10% then it dies. I’ve also noticed when it does die that you can send text messages it come up message failed
Your battery is faulty.
Try this
How to check your Apple Watch battery fo… - Apple Community
The battery life on my Apple Watch since upgrading to WatchOS 10 is horrendous. I’ve had my series 7 watch for about 17 months now. Prior to WatchOS 10, I could take my watch off the charger in the morning and still have 1/4 charge when heading to bed around 12 - 1 am.
I’ve done everything I can think of to improve battery life since upgrading to WatchOS10:
1) Power-cycled my watch (after the update) when I realized the battery life had decreased by approx 50%.
2) Regularly close apps not in use. (Double click the Digital Crown).
3) Reduce the number of apps that run/update in the background.
Still, I can’t get 5 hours without needing to charge my watch.
This needs addressed immediately.
it’s all in here particularly unpairing and set up as new watch
Apple Watch uses a LOT of battery - Apple Community
I unpaired and repaired mine too and i have an iphone 11
WatchOS 10 battery life
