Apple Watch Battery Drain Issues after Update

Here’s my situation today:

• wake up at 6 am: watch is at 100%
• get in car at 7:20 am: watch is at 91%
• sit motionless for four hours
• at 11:30, walk around for approximately two hours (no workout being tracked)
• sit motionless for another two hours
• by 3:30 pm, watch is at 56%, having only been looked at 6-7 times. There were no functions engaged, only one alert shown, no workouts tracked, and WiFi is turned off.
• since I have to leave the office at 4 and drive for about 3 hours, I fully expect that by 7:30 pm tonight my watch will be dead, having not done anything at all today.

I have updated my phone OS also.

Before this update, my watch lasted until 12 am-1 am, which included a minimum 2 hours of workout tracking and many activations.

this is an utter joke. Nobody can use a watch that can’t last 10 hours even when it’s not tracking anything.

On my Apple Watch 7 45mm gps I used to get around 32 hours a year ago. And just before updating to 10.0.1 I was getting at least 20 to 24 hours. Not im getting about 12 to 14 hours. Seems like every update makes it worst. My battery health is at 85%. Fix this apple.

Same here. Normally after my morning workout, I'm 60% drained, but can put the watch in the charger while showering and make it through most days without issues. Now, I was below 10% and have run out of charge half way through the day. What's going on to cause the much quicker discharge?

My wife and I are having the same issue. I updated and now drained 30% in 3 hours, whereas previously, my watch would last 40 odd hours ie. two weeks ago (I have an apple watch SE). Please fix this apple.

Ditto!!! My watch used to last about 22 hours before this update. Now I'm lucky to get 8 hours. THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED APPLE!!!!

Does Apple team if there is a team respond to anything guys or it is just me feeling we are talking to ourselves 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

I’ve been having the same issue with battery drain on my Apple Watch SE, going from 100% to 60% in about an hour since this update, when pre-update it’d easily last all day. Apple Support advised to unpair & completely reset my watch to no avail so clearly it’s the update causing this, & they need to fix up fast!

turning it off and on again did fix both issues for me. Was able to get a full charge and battery usage is back to normal.

As many others here I am facing battery drain issues since I updated my S7 (86% battery health) to Watch OS10 / 10.1

In general I think there were two issues:

1. Massive battery drain up to the point where the watch doesn't even charge, mostly caused by 3rd party apps and 3rd party watch face apps
2. More battery drain than usual, making the watch only last for approx. 12 hours instead of 16 with around 50% battery left

I was facing the second issue and tried everything suggested:

- Removed weather widget and watch face complications

- Deleted all watch faces and only used a very basic one without any complications

- Disabled all measurements for heart-rate, blood oxygen, etc

- Disabled background app refresh

- Disabled hand washing timer

- Disabled always on display

- Disabled WiFi and Bluetooth

- Reset the watch and set it up as new

Nothing helped. Even when using Low Power mode my watch was draining around 5% per hour. (I have an excel sheet where I enter the remaining battery load every hour at the moment to see what actions might have helped)

I then decided to see what happens when I connect my watch to my work iPhone (older XR that I usually only use for work related stuff) and guess what: No battery drain at all. Used it normally and after one hour it was still at 100% (where I would have been at 93-97 before) and even some hours later it just went down a bit. With that it seemed like the issue wasn't actually related to the watch but more to the phone or something on the phone. I then did the following:

1. Put the watch on the charger
2. Unpair the watch
3. Disable Watch App from iCloud settings on my iPhone
4. Uninstall the Apple Watch App from my iPhone
5. Restart the iPhone
6. Reinstall the Apple Watch app
7. Pair Apple Watch to phone again as a new watch

Not all of these steps might be required but since I did this I see some improvements. After 12 hours of using the watch my battery is now at 50% where it would have been between 20 and 36 before. This is still not like 50% at the end of the day as it used to last but with 86% battery health I think this is not too bad.

Interestingly the Watch App is not showing up under my iCloud settings again, yet. It completely disappeared from there.

I don't know what exactly helped and if this is really a fix or just some more voodoo like all the other suggestions but it feels like an improvement for me and might be worth a try for others facing similar issues.

Same here. My Apple Watch Ultra use to be able to last me 48 hours where I'd still have about 15-25% left before I'd charge it, now I only get about 36 hours before needing to charge. Also my calendar compilations no longer update unless you open the watch calendar app. They need to release an update to fix some of these issues.

LUKE, THIS IS THE FIX YOU ARE LOOKING FOR!

I had the same battery life issue (my battery was dead in about half the time of what was normal right before installing the update) and also noticed that my weather complications were staying blank. I found this Apple recommended solution for the complications issue and it solved both problems. See this page:

If the Apple Watch Weather complication isn't working - Apple Support

The first recommended fix on this page did not help me, but the second one definitely did. I am three days into the fix and all is back to normal and watch is running great. I am getting 18+ hours battery life with light use on my Series 5.

BTW, here's what I did before finding and using the above fix. None of these things helped:

• Turned off both watch and phone. Did not help.
• Factory reset and repaired my watch as a new watch at least three times. Did not help (but wasted a lot of time).
• Factory reset and repaired my watch with a restore from a recent backup. Did not help.
• Factory reset and repaired my watch with a restore from an older backup. Did not help.
• Changed watch from 12-hr clock to 24-hr clock, as many had recommended as a fix for the blank weather complications. Did not help.

I used to end the day with 40-50% battery. Since this new update I’ve been ending the day with 10-20%. I haven’t noticed the watch only charging to 80% like some others were saying. I’ll have to check in the morning.

Yesterday, my Apple Watch SE was charged 100% and left to shop at approx. 18:10.

By 20:15 it was down to 43%!

I had not used it for navigation, music or podcasts. That's 57% used just being on standby!

I then used the countdown timer for 15 minutes. Once completed, the battery was down to 17%!

Apple must release a patch update to address this severe issue as soon as possible!

My watch (an SE) updated to 10.1 and now doesn’t hold a charge for longer than 2 hours. I have restarted multiple times and closed the apps. Before the new update I would get 18 hours per charge minimum. Can I go back to 10.0?

A hard 80% charge limit is a very clear hint your Apple Watch is using Optimized Charging with an 80% limit.

Check your battery and charge your Apple Watch - Apple Support

About Optimized Battery Charging on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Apple Watch Battery and Performance - Apple Support