Apple Watch Battery Drain Issues after Update

The good news is that I believe the Genius Bar tech realized that it’s a huge problem. I refused to pay to have my watch fixed because it wasn’t my fault. We will see how it is when I get it back next week. But I will not install a new update until I make sure it fixes the bug in this one.

You are entitled to your opinion and I fully respect that but if you buy a app at the App Store you should trust that Apple aproves it.

I create videos for non profit organizations and also for individuals that can afford to pay a professional to make video of their weddings, graduation, vacation or wedding anniversary. I do it for free I just request a small donation to 3 of the foundations and charity organization that I support. So I have many software that is not sold on the Apple Store because just iMovie and Final Cut Pro is not enough and I can’t afford Adobe. When I download these apps I know the risk and I also know how to fully uninstall them (not just take to the trash, that lives tones of things behind). I am aware of the risk and I am pretty go in dealing with it. But when you buy from the Apple Store? These apps are approved by apple and I am sure they make a commission on it therefore they are responsible.

I have good news and bad news. I wento go a walk with my walker and the battery drained more than usual but not horrible. The bad new is that it took a while for the satellite to connect.

A tip for physically challenged people like me that needs to walk with a walker but want to register your walks. Move you watch to you ankle.

I'm having the same issue, after installing the latest update on my Apple Watch Ultra 2, before the update my battery would last almost 3 days and now it's only lasting for a few hours. I hope that they resolve this problem quickly.

Same experiences as everyone here. After unpairing and repairing several times, shutting off optimized battery charging, shutting off location services, shutting off Bluetooth, hard resetting the watch - nothing and I mean nothing helped. Seems uninstalling the Moby Face App may be my fix. I just took it off the charger 20 minutes ago at 100% and it’s still at 100%. Prior to removing the app it would have already been at 80% in 20 minutes.

Last night after a 2 hour call with Apple Support in which the tech did everything he could think of, I decided to

remove the Moby Face App from my phone took off my Ultra v1 put it on the charger. This morning it was at 100% and I have the most location driven face turned on with elevation, temperature everything that could possibly use the battery just like yesterday. So far the battery has not moved since 6am EDT. Last night I watched the power drain 4% in 4 minutes while on with Support. I’ll report later if my issue has been resolved.

Thanks, I think this happened last time and resetting worked, but are we going to have to go through this stupid time-consuming process every time we get an update?

Baaad apple. Bad!

I will try this tonight and wear a real Mickey Mouse watch for today.

Past two days, after update, same issue.

I do, however, get to 100% charge - not sure about the 80% charge mentioned by folks below.

Used to get 24+ hours, easily, on my V7 Watch. Now I can almost watch the battery drain.

Charged before bed last night - woke up 4a, not working/drained, put on charger. Fully charged at 8a 100%, currently 9:30 and already down to 73%.

I’m not a developer. But I did download 10.2 yesterday. Not sure why it was there but it was. And my watch was 100% charged at 4pm 10/27 and right now it’s only down to 65% percent that’s way better than what I was getting.

After going through all the suggestions everyone has tried, the only thing I found that worked was to roll back the update to watch os 9 and start over. Running thing is that when I did that the watch went back to 10.1 but a different build. If you have the option to roll it back do it. If not, you may be still waiting for the patch( or update) to fix yours. DEFINITELY A SOFTWARE ISSUE!!!!

There is nothing hardware related to the watches. Hopefully this helps.

FYI, I started day with 100% at 7:15 est and now my watch is at 100% at 9:46 est.

Good luck.

I got an Ultra and I'm used to get over 2 days of battery life and in the last days I'm only getting 7 to 8 hours of battery!!! Today I put my watch on at 6:30am and now at 11:30am I have only 8% left on the battery so I got a 800$ bracelet on my wrist for the rest of the day!!!

Updating to WatchOS 10.0.1 was a nightmare. Took forever to update and when I put the watch on it stated I only had 4% battery left. Back on the Apple charger and it took forever to recharge to full. When I put the watch back on the battery lasted for a very short time and again stated I only had 4% battery left. Back on the charger where it now lives until there is a patch or I can get to an Apple Store. Very disappointing from Apple, going forward I will not be updating until I'm assured there are no other issues like this going forward.

How exactly did they “made” you buy a new watch? My husband, seen my frustration told me to a buy a new watch too. I said “no” because it is a software not a hardware issue. For me taking off 3rd party software Moby Face helped a lot. My watch still warmer than normal on my wrist, the battery draining is about 80% normal but I can’t instal the oxygen measure or EKG on the face of the watch. It is important to me due to health issues.

i suggest uninstalling all face apps if you have any. If you don’t, try to uninstall all their part app for now until they update.

I hope that helps.

My watch has been doing much better since I uninstalled mobyface as recommended. I charged mine up 100% at 7:30 am and it's 1:05 pm and I still have 83% battery left, yesterday it would've been dead by 8:30 am. Thanks for the help.

Upgrade on Apple watchSE Thursday evening. Went swimming battery was flat after 30mins. Came home charged it and had to charge it again throughout the day. Managed a 100% charge overnight. Had a 20 min walk with the dog and battery down to 55% so back on charge. Just rubbish cannot see the point in this wish I’d never updated 😡