Apple Watch OS10 battery life?

I just did the update to 10.1 on my Apple Watch and now the battery is dead within 4 hours when it was lasting the entire day before the update.

Does anyone have any update on what Apple is doing to correct this and how soon it will come?

This Watch and all it's functions are a constant tool I use throughout my day and I don't want to start looking for a different option.

Does Apple monitor this discussion thread?

A couple of things that I don't care for on the update:

1. Battery drains quicker (phone and watch)
2. When pressing the digital crown to get to things, it always goes back to the top. It didn't used to do that. Now you have to scroll all the way to the bottom to get to workouts
3. You now have to press the side button to get to the menu to turn on DND, or to ping your watch. I much prefer just swiping up on the face.

I’ve been working with Apple support for about 2 1/2 weeks now trying to give them screenshots of my watch during the 3 1/2 to 4 hours it stays charged. This new OS is killing my battery life. So ******. We’ve run diagnostics on the watch so the hardware is fine. It has to be the software. 10.0.2 can’t come soon enough.

I tried shutting off my watch to see if it did anything. For me after the third shut down and restart is when my battery life went back to where it was before the update. I turned it off on different days but finally the third time did the trick for me.

Hi all,

I have same issue regarding my Apple Watch. All started it from update to ios 10.1, I have 89% battery health and I have done this:

1. Erase everything and restore from backup… not working.
2. Erase everything and setup as new watch…. Not working
3. No background apps running…. Not working.
4. Optimises Battery charging on and fully charged….. not working.
5. Optimises Batteries Charging off and let it totally drain out battery…. Not working.
6. Watch on hand during night…. Not working.
7. Watch off hand during night next to bed. Phone 10 meter from the watch… not working.
8. Watch next to phone over night … Working.

So to let the watch working I need to lay the watch down next to phone and don’t touch.

I have around 3 hours battery life when I have fully charged the watch. This is something Apple needs to fix. My wife have same series of watch but with e-sim and that is working fine.

Best regards, Kristjan

If the battery drains too fast after an update, see all the replies to:

Battery Drain since watchos 7.4 - Apple Community

WatchOS 7.5 battery drain - Apple Community

FWIW, in some cases, unpairing the watch, completely erasing it, then pairing and restoring the backup will resolve the battery draining issue after an update. (Simply unpairing and pairing again may not work.)

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Also, some people have found that simply waiting a few days after an update resolves the battery draining problem.

In 2 hrs I am now at 44% on the battery.

OS 10.1 just loaded a couple days ago. I have not tried to erase my watch, but that may be a possible fix. You would think Apple would look at these things better.

Yes. There is something wrong with the update. Apple may have turned on certain features with the update. I had noticed that Siri was turning on when the watch was facing upward. I turned that feature off. I will look through the Apple watch app closer to see what else is running at a later date.

Absolutely agree. Doing nothing but wearing it, watch now runs out of battery by 5 or 6 in the afternoon. Has always well maintained a charge for the full day before. Experiencing the same problem with my iPhone 12 Pro as well after update. I expect better from Apple

Loved my watch before this update and now starting to hate it. Battery drains by 6pm, extra clicks required to do anything in the fitness app and some of the colours are like my 8 year old daughter chose them. Is it possible to go back to previous os?

I woke up this morning and the Apple Watch battery drained overnight, this has been happening after the latest update. A fix is needed.

After full wipe and re paired with phone the battery is back to what it was. The workout app and notification screens are still like something an 8 year old created. Why would a small x button be a good addition to a watch app and why do i have to close my last workout when creating a new one.

I am having the same issue with my Apple Watch 8 as what has been described on this thread after the 10.1 update. I don’t know how this update passed the QA portion of the SDLC ( Software Development Life Cycle). Truly disappointed in this Apple release.

New update didn’t fix it. I’ve not had any problems and routinely would go 36 hours without charging my watch. I’ve charged it twice in 12 hours: it’s been off the charger for 3 hours and it’s already at 60.

This seems to be an application compatibility issue with the new software upgrade. I had to remove two applications before the issue was fixed. The two applications which I removed are MobeyFaces and Weather Live. Once I removed these two applications, my watch has returned back to its normal battery consumption rate and I can go two days without charging my watch battery.