Apple Watch Battery Drain Issues after Update

Updated to 10.1 and saw battery drain immediately. I had a full charge last night and by time I got up, my watch was dead and turned off. I did a factory reset and turned off background app refresh. Battery is coming back a little bit - it's been charging for over one hour and it's only at 40% full. My battery was fine on 10 but the update really messed it up.

My Watch had zero issues until I updated to 10.1 last night. Battery drains from 100% to 10% in about half an hour. Won’t charge past 75% and starts overheating to the point it shuts off services. Also scrolling is stuttering. Update 10.1 broke my watch

I wasn't having any issues after updating to watchOS 10.0 (or any of the sub-updates) outside of the weather complication glitch, but just updated yesterday to watchOS10.1 on both my Apple Watch Ultra and my wife's Series 8. We couldn't get past the 80% charge (even after turning off Optimized Battery Health in order to charge it to full last night), so when we went to sleep last night they were both at 80%. My Ultra drained to 5% in 7 hours (I would've lost maybe 5-10% over that time period in the past) and my wife's Series 8 lost all its battery and went into Power Reserve. Not only that, but I seem to have lost the ability to fast charge my Ultra (tried two different chargers).

Called Apple Support this morning - I was a bit concerned when the person I spoke with asked whether the watchOS10.1 was a beta version as they hadn't released 10.1 yet (I've never run a beta version of any of the OS on any of our devices before). She ran a diagnostic, and everything was fine (not surprised). Her solutions were either to go to an Apple Store (which seemed like it wouldn't make sense, since to me this seems like a software issue so what is an individual at the store going to be able to do), or she would issue a ticket to some internal site, and if that gets enough 'hits' or 'votes' then it will be a priority for the engineers to work on that issue in an upcoming update. I'm assuming they will be receiving plenty of calls with a battery issue that essentially makes the watch obsolete, but I'll encourage others to contact Apple Support if they're having similar issues to make sure it's on their radar. Be prepared to not get a solution, but hopefully with enough calls, the problem will get solved.

I will say I've been disappointed with the recent OS rollouts (I'm a huge Apple Fan - have all the devices), but iOS17 gave us issues with morning alarms, I saw a complication glitch with weather in watchOS 10, and this issue is huge. From here on out, I'll be thinking twice about running an update immediately (fool me once...).

Ok so after a trip to the Apple Store yesterday, here’s what I’ve done this morning at 6:30 with my watch at 100% and is now at 97% 4.5 hours later. Reset the watch and setup as new. Keep in mind I’m on 17.1 beta on my phone and 10.1 (no beta) on the watch. I turned off the noise app and went into Cellular to turn off cellular data for most apps that I don’t use with my watch. Any apps that I don’t have to have I’ve uninstalled from the watch. They also told me yesterday that my watch face was also pulling the most battery because it had been pulling data constantly to keep the watch face updated. Hope this helps.

I got to work this am to a dead series 8 watch. It had a full charge 9 hours earlier. Six hour later I have charged it twice to 75% and it has gone below 5%…..

turn off twice and rebooted it. Actually had to do that after the update last night. It was not charging. Shut it down totally. Put it back on the charger. Got a full charge and it was dead 9 hours later.

only Apple can downgrade software. You would have to contact Apple support and request it. They will send you a box and it will shipped out to be done. There is no charge or anything, just time with no watch

I made an apple yesterday at the Apple Store, they ran some test on my Ultra battery. It passed, no issues.

It is giving me a message under battery that says it stopped charging at 81% due to temperature issues. I am using apple charger and cord.

The recommendation from the store was to call Apple tell them it is a temperature issue and that it is creating battery problems. I am doing the express repair since I have AppleCare and they will send me a replacement first and I will return mine. Then wait for them out come if what’s going on with the battery

Updated to watchOS 10.1 last night. Apple Watch Series 4 had 82% charge. 6 AM, battery dead. Charged for 3 hours, 100% at 9 AM, back to 6% by 12 noon! 100% charge used to last at least a whole day, sometimes longer. Now, won’t even last more than 3 hours!

The person on Apple Support thought it was a beta, but 10.1 had been officially released yesterday. Just concerning that the tech thought it was still in beta (you’d think if anyone would know, they would).

My watch was at 100% this morning at 5:30am and hit 10% at 9am. I put it on the charger and figured it would be fine, but it died again an hour later. Now I'm watching it, on the charger, losing battery (went from 15% to 12% just now). The only thing I did was update to 10.1 this morning.

Hopefully Apple figures this out and gets it fixed ASAP....

My IPad is horrible at this point. iPhone 13 draining very quickly. Apple Watch almost impossible to wear… What a horrendous posture of this company. No news, apologies, reports…. Nothing at all. Very disappointing

Same battery drain problem after update to WatchOS 10.1. Worked fine before, updated around 8pm yesterday battery was below 10% by midnight. This morning I wasn’t able to get the battery to charge past 75% after over an hour on the fast charger by 9am and it just notified me it is below 10% again. This is unusable.

Less than 12 hours ago my watch updated to watchOS 10.1... and now the battery goes from 100% to 0% in 2 hours!!!!

Of course this is NOT normal or expected. Anybody else has the same issue? Is there a fix?

I do not see a new OS version available yet, I am hoping they would soon fix this.

Updated to 10.1 hoping it would address the battery drain. My watch has went from 100% to 68% in an hour. It’s basically managed to render it unusable. On watch OS9 100% charge would get me almost 48 hours. I wish I never updated.

I tried the reset. But it’s the same problem. Battery is just not holding a charge. Not to mention it gets hot when charging. I think I’m just going to shut it off completely because all this charging is going to ruin the battery. I’ll wait out an update. They can’t not know this is an issue.