Apple Watch Battery Drain Issues after Update

It is affecting A LOT OF PEOPLE that I am aware. None of them are taking action, just waiting for a fix.

Lost files, my 9th edition IPad is useless. Phone 13 not perfect. Watch 7 battery at 80% of what it used to be.

It is humiliating to see Apple dealing so poorly with their mistakes.

I’ve got the exact same issue and it doesn’t make me feel better seeing all these people impacted.

Is anyone from apple going to provide an answer for a solution through this forum?

I already tried all the tips about battery draining and even switched off background apps refresh, but the battery is draining excessively fast, about 5 hours, and before the update it was about 24 hours.

Update to 10.1 seems to have helped for me. Series 6 will now last for the day at least. Not sure if update solved all the problems as I stopped a number of apps and removed others so I'm not 100% sure it was the update that improved things. Odd, only affects some watches, but it is obviously a OS issue. Hopefully Apple will acknowledge and provide an update that will work for everyone!

@Firepsych - my Series 6 seems to be behaving better as well, after the 10.1 update.

It's disheartening to read so many problems with watches now. There's a very long thread on MacRumors with people having the same issues.

Apple pretty much blamed me! They kind of told me that shame on me that did this update because it was a beta update. I did not signed up for beta.

A senior advisor told me that if I got this update from the software update it is NOT a beta but it could have been a corrupted download.

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yesterday my series 8 watch went from 100% to 10% over the course of 8 hours. Today my watch didn’t make it 6hrs. I commented on this yesterday and someone said it was normal but this has never happened in the past and Apple is all quiet…This is something I expect from Microsoft, not Apple.

Yes, we can easily surmise this is a software issue. What we don't know is which software at fault, or even more critically, why some watch owners are affected severely, some moderately, and others, not at all. The difference can't really be explained by how the watches are used. We have two in our household and both are used in essentially the same way. One is unaffected. The other drains far more quickly than before (but not as badly as some report here).

Personally, I suspect it's got something to do with wi-fi or Bluetooth, a theory that wouldn't be difficult to test. A person with severe battery drain could turn off wi-fi on their watch and keep their phone in pairing distance for a few hours and see what happens. Then try the same with Bluetooth.

Okay guys. I read through here and saw instructions to delete any third party face apps from your watch and phone. I had one “MobyFace”, that had Star Wars faces. My series 8 was using a charge in 4 hours from 32. It has just dropped only 2% in 1.5 hours so my bug seems to be fixed. I also went to a face that just has the time for now. That may be the reason mines okay or deleting the third party app may be the fixer. I’m about to use a face with all four corners having info and see how it drains. That will gives us the key. I’m happy now I have a good charge.

Can you see if the one affected has any third party watch apps like outside faces? I deleted one and now my charge is holding. I also went from an informative face to just one with the time. So it could be that. I’m doing a process of elimination because I seemed to have found a fix on mine.

Excuse me for my ignorance, you mentioned 10.1 beta… why did you say beta? Did you sign up for beta? How did you do that? I got my update the day before yesterday from the general >software update and it did not warn me that it was a beta software. They should not release on software update a beta software.

You have to go on the Apple website and sign up for beta. You get the updates before most for testing and developing. Developers get it first and testers next. Then the public. I’ve done it for years. Tested and give feedback. This is the first major issues I’ve had beta and it bled over to the public update too.

Had the exact same issue, Apple Watch 7. After 10.1 the battery was draining, in 5 minutes I’d lost 3% just a few hours down to 10%

I reset the watch, restored to a previous version of WatchOS and that sorted it! It’s since updated itself to 10.1 again and no issues

Last charge was to 94% and eight hours later and a workout it’s only down to 59%.

I’ve seen people posting about eliminating third party faces like MobyFace and Facer. I happen to have a year long subscription to Facer. Why should we have to compromise with Apple about how we use or customize our watches when I have had my series 7 and used both these third party apps for better than 2 years without incident? Apple made promises about the increased functionality in their new hardware and software releases but we have to compromise how we were choosing to use our devices because their garbage software updates no longer support it? I am the customer who trusted their propaganda! If they can’t give me the functionality they promised, they can kiss my *** if they think I’m going to bend over backwards to keep their inferior product. They owe me a quality product; I owe them nothing, certainly not extreme loyalty when they’ve broken faith with me!

I have a series 6 and 10 was all right but 10.1 drayned the battery and got really hot even on my wrist! After several tip, I am now in low battery mode and it is just warming and the battery is at 80% performance of what used to be.

Or maybe Apple sent the specs for the update to MobyFace and Facer and they haven’t written code to read over properly. That’s normally the problem. Developers don’t code correctly. They get the update way before it goes public. The developers code to Apple’s software, Apple doesn’t code to their app. That’s like buying an aftermarket camshaft for a Chevy engine and getting mad at Chevy it they made the shaft or lobes wrong. Anyways, I need my watch to be functional more than I need a third party face. That’s just me though.