Apple Watch battery draining twice as face after watchOS 10 update

I can report the same problem, two days now. Yesterday my watch was out of juice by 4 PM. Today after my morning workout routines, it had gone from to 30%! I took it off and recharged for an hour and now, at noon, we’re back at 30%. This is really unacceptable.

I have been using my S4 with no trouble for almost five years. The battery easily lasts me a whole day including tracking workouts. Yesterday, the watch upgraded to os version 10, and now the battery is draining completely within a few hours. Did they just force me to buy a new watch? Will the battery stop draining after it adjusts to the new os? Or is there some way to revert to the previous version? For now, I’ll wait and hope it’s just re-indexing or something.

Just a little irritated. Got a forced apple watch update overnight and once again it drains the battery by noon. Now I need to unpair and re-pair again. Utterly incompetent! Bring Steve back, he insisted on better QA than this continuing joke with watch updates.

My Watch s7 has drained 100% to 40% in three hours of normal use since I upgraded to WatchOS 10. Unfortunately, it is likely not going to make it to the end of my shift at 5 pm.

All the apps are up to date, I have restarted it, and I have re-synced my Watch but that made no difference in battery performance.

Hoping Apple can fix this sooner than later.

Got the same issue on the Series 7 thats only 11 months old.

It dropped one percent in max capacity after the update and I had the watch charged to 97% and when I got to work it was already 73%.

I’m a careful charger so I thought 99% max capacity after 11 months was good but then the update tanked another 1%.

I am having the same issue with my AW8. I normally walk for 6 miles and listen to podcasts while doing so. When finished, battery is normally 70-72%. Last two days, after the update, it is at 50%. Will continue to check, but the watch is barely making it through the day, which was never an issue. That said, I love the watch, and the podcast interface after the update is an improvement, except for volume control, which is now very inconveniently accessed, or I haven't figured it out.

I have exact same problem. Now 5 days since the update and still draining fast. I don’t buy the work that’s being done in the background as there have now been many hours on my nightstand overnight for it to do its business uninterrupted!

I’m a few weeks into the update on my Watch 4, and I barely get a full day of normal usage, which includes about an hour of exercise. The battery continues to drain more than it used to on version 9, and it has not leveled off.

I’ve done the power off /restart routine and I’ve been watching (excuse the pun) the battery down 10% every hour since the restart. That’s without any activity recording. The math suggests that’s a 12-hour battery life with no activity- compared to about 18 hours I was getting before the upgrade including at least an hour activity recording daily. Shocking.

Update, my watch clearly does not make it 24 hours. It takes three plus hours to charge now and barely makes it 15 hours. I really hope they make an update to resolve this issue. This watch is unusable to me as I bought it for actual outdoors remote camping. I travel to the mountains of NC with no signal and will use GPS. I cannot imagine the battery life when I actually use it as intended. Already starting to look at Garmin replacements.

I’ve now lost three percent of my overall battery health since the update now.

I'm a careful user I don’t overcharge or let my batteries drain and after almost a year I had 99% which was good and the update happened and I’ve dropped to 97% now.

That’s terrible.

My Apple Watch 7 used to last about a day and a half on full charge. Now drains from 100 to 43% in 6 hours while sleeping and no apps open in background. Been charging 2-3 times a day just to get thru. Horrible and just about useless.

I’m thinking exactly the same thing. But after reading many of these comments, it appears it’s happening on new models as well. I called sales support and asked the question and the reply was “I’ve not heard of any battery issues.” Ugh,

Since the latest update, my Apple Watch has been draining twice as fast to begin with, now 8x fast.

100% at 8am now 14% at 12:30pm (86% drain in 4.5hr) with no background apps running or fitness training used in the morning.

I have the same problem since the update.

Inicially I though it was my battery and changed it but this issue remains.

I need to charge my Applewatch series 6 twice a day now, turning this device almost useless.