Apple Watch Battery Drain Issues after Update

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

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!

I updated my apple Ultra watch to watchos 10.1 around 1am and left on charger until 78% charged, put it back on and went to bed around 3am, woke up at 9am to 1% battery remaining. I restarted watch and charged to full. I took it off charger at 11am and it was down to 41% from 100% by 4pm. I have now hard reset it holding the power button and control center button. Normally my watch battery lasts me 5 days it's not even lasting 8 hours.

Wife's series 8 is working fine though.

I don’t think that sending a watch back or buying another watch is the answer unless there is damage caused by overheating or something. It seems that the problem isn’t the hardware—the watch—it’s the latest software update(s). If you get a different watch, and it has the same faulty OS on it, it’s just going to have the same issue(s).

It’s unconscionable that Apple is pretending that there is no problem with the OS.

The strangest part of this problem is, it doesn't seem to affect everyone, isn't specific to an Apple Watch model, and for those who have it, the increased battery drain varies hugely in severity. Also, the solutions that seem to help some owners don't do a thing for others. Not surprising Apple is having a hard time figuring out what's going on, especially if their diagnostics are showing nothing wrong when so clearly something is very wrong.

@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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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.

I had that up too. I deleted the up but kept the faces it did not help. Than I deleted the faces and put a face that has only time and date. Let’s see if it will help. But even if it helps we all want to be able to use our phones fully functions.

this app MobyFace is a very well known app and is available on the Apple Store. If it is damaging the watch wouldn’t it demage the phone as well? After all we install the app on the phone first.

I refuse to send my watch in! 10.1 is NOT beta! It was released to the public. So what are you going to do? Send the watch in and they will take the software out and reinstall it because 10.1 is the latest version of OS. Even if they install OS 10. When you pair it will update and then the problem will come back. There are people in this group that got a brand new watch a couple of week ago and had the problem right away! Then they assume it was a fluke and exchanged it for another one and the same thing happened!

They have to release a fix.

Mine, series 6 didn’t have problems with the 10 but the 10.1!!! You know the story…. And mine got extremely hot even on my wrist and on the table. I had to turn it off. After trying many things… I got it to about maybe 75% of what it was. Still disappointed ☹️ Apple is not taking care of us customers. They shot themselves on the foot.

Just a suggestion, turn off automatic updates. Check it manually so you know what you put and when you put an update. I have not made the last update on my iPhone, iPads and MacBook yet. They say in my country that: “If you throw a cat on boiling water, if he survives, he will be afraid 😱 of even cold water”. That is me right now.

Until Apple assumes that 10.1 was released to the public, even if by accident, but was released and has major problems and they sem a patch for it, NO MOTE UPDATES FOR ME.

Exact thing is happening to my series 8.Except today it was very slow to charge and the back was hot to the touch on the charger. Once at 100% i lower the brightness to minimum and the watch is still draining the battery 🪫. I went from 30 to 40 hours on a full charge down to less than 10 hours on a full charge apple needs to fix this asap send the new update with the dam bug fix ( my battery 🔋 health is 100%

For me it’s been happening since 10 first dropped. If I didn’t really do much all day, with I full charge at 6am, by 9pm I could still be at 50%. After the update I’m at 30% around 8pm. But I just did the new update. Full charge at 8am. 4:20 pm it’s at 38%. Is there something running in the background???

so I have a series 7 for like more than a year or so, got it on like release. after the 10.1 update the full charge would not last a day. so ok i thought maybe we go buy a new one. got a 9 paired, updated and charged. went to bed for a nap. maybe that's a few hours. woke up its dead! i chat with a support. told me don't believe the communities. It's like saying you all are lying here. submitting your experiences. made me do diagnostics and asking me all these questions. I just ended the chat coz he told me just return it. great ! big help!