Apple Watch Battery Drain Issues after Update

Same here. I could easily go 2 days before needing to charge. Now needing to charge it every 2-3 hrs. Then it has to be restarted to even take a charge. I called apple, rep had no clue what to tell me then I went to my phone carrier, all he said was wait until a new update. So basically my watch is useless. I can’t stop every 2 hrs to charge it. As much as you pay for this and the cell service you’d think this wouldn’t be an issue.

I bet they reprogrammed your watch like they did mine back to 10.0.1 because that fixed the problem for my watch also series 7. When I downloaded 10.1 that is why all the battery issues begin. Apple I really dropping the ball on customer satisfaction with this update issue just terrible business practice.

Today is the first day that the battery discharged in half a day. So very disappointing! Hope this doesn't continue or I will switch to a different device. Does anybody know if it ever improves or is this the new normal?

I started the update, it paused saying that I needed to have my watch connected to the power, I connected it, watch was at 74%, right after the update was done, the sensor where the power is connected was a bit warm for over a min and then the power went down to 72% and from that moment it started to drain like crazy and two green lights came on for no reason, I have the orange button disabled so why the lights were on?

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Three hours later the power went from 72 to 50% and ever since a full charge last only 6, 7 hours tops.

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My phone is not updated to the 17.1 and nor will I update it.

I would say it’s 100% an issue caused by Apples update and unsufficient testing.

Looking at this thread it’s hard for me to believe that no Apple staff with an Apple Watch ran into the same issue.

For me it looks like a business decision - how many Watches are out there? How many third party apps might cause this issue? How many issues do we expect based on the number of installed third party apps?

And to be honest - taking such a decision is fine for me - otherwise every OS rollout would be stopped by a minority of issues and affected users.

But what really annoys me / makes me angry in this case is the lack of information of the Apple support and the lack of communication towards affected customers!

The customers themselves - for example in this group - had to analyze and to discover causes and workarounds for their problems caused by the OS update.

I took my own decision because of this behavior and - as stated before - switched from Apple watch to someone else, because for me this experience is not the way how I want to be treated as customer.

cheers

I don’t know - if the 3rd party app was running, the code base was stable (means: there was no update) and the only thing changes was the OS, then it is pretty clear to me, whos update / code caused the issue!

Sorry for the double/triple posts here, but accusing the 3rd party apps or app devs is not right, if they haven‘t updated their apps, but the OS was updated.

Btw: I haven‘t read any statement from Apple about possible issues with 3rd Party apps prior or after der WatchOS10 release.

Was there any news or thread, that shared information about updated OS features that 3rd party Devs where informed about and did not update? I haven‘t seen any.

I have an Apple Watch Ultra, and ever since the last update to 10.1, my watch drains from 100% to nothing in a matter of a few hours. And then when I got to charge it, whether it's a third party charger or an Apple charger that came with the watch, the watch doesn't actually charge. I have to either reset the watch or turn it off and back on to get the watch working again. This has been happening for a week or two now.

I thought maybe it had something to do with when I transferred everything over to the iPhone 15 Pro Max a couple weeks ago from my iPhone 12 Pro Max. But a phone hardware change should cause battery issue with the watch. The only other thing I can think of is the software update.

Now, today my wife put her watch on and in a matter of a few hours the watch drained down to nothing, also on iOS 10.1. Problem is I have it on the charger and it's not charging and I can't even get it to reset. This is a bit ridiculous considering how much Apple charges for everything. This might be the end of line with me and Apple.

Never had an issue with my Series 6 and downloaded the update 10.0.1 for it. Battery died within 3 hours after being fully charged. After the 4th day of noticing this I tried reporting it to customer service. They ran a diagnostic and said nothing was wrong with my iwatch. I said it started after the update was downloaded and they kept downplaying this. Stopped wearing my iwatch.

This article is what I was waiting for after downloading the 10.1 update twice I had to have my Apple Watch series 7 re-programed with apple which took 3 days each time to get it back from them. I am sticking with update version 10.0.1 until a fix for update 10.1 is released. Thank you for sharing the article I just wanted to know they are working on a fix for this problem.

Nope deleted all 3rd party apps. Reset, unpaired and paired again. Still drains quickly especially when I use the fitness tracker. My watch is essentially a swatch watch except the battery is not as good. At least with a swatch I can get cr2032 battery and replace it myself

Mine charges to 100% BUT it VERY QUICKLY drops to 75% within 10 mins of wearing then it’s downhill from there. My watch is fully drained within 2 hours. I’ve had the series 9 since Sept 22nd and would only wear it every weekend at work. I hope they release a fix soon.

Wife's iWatch after upgrade only gets a few hours of run time before it say's battery low. Prior to update battery would last all day. Can anybody confirm if you can remove the update or if you end up having to do a factor reset?

This is poor support via Apple, why didn't your CI/CD process not pick this up prior to pushing out the update, bloody joke Apple. If i didn't know better i'd say you have done this on purpose so force people down the route of buying new models!. If it worked before update then it should be fine after the update, sort your house out Apple.

That is another major issue. They HAVE to develop new models with the ability to change batteries. It is absolutely ridiculous to self regard as Green and simply throw watches always because of an old battery. Suunto, Polar, Samsung… they all change batteries for 50-100 usd. Come on!

Man I hope this works. I’ve done all the suggestions. Still peeved about dumping apps, thought that was point of a smart watch. I am hoping that I can use my fitness tracker for more than a few hours. I am not hopeful based on the comments after the newest update.