Apple Watch Battery Drain Issues after Update

I'm adding my name to this as well. I have the Apple Watch SE and before iOS 10.0.1 update my watch would last me all day and wouldn't need to be charged until I was getting ready for bed. Now, like most of the comments on here, I have to set the watch on the charge 2-3 times a day. I've also reset it completely and paired it again to my phone, I've turned it off and on a few times and still the battery drains so quickly. APPLE you really need to fix this issue.

Befor update, the battery hold for about two hours running with training app and streaming music. After uppdate the battery was totalt drained after 40 minutes. (Watch series 6 44mm cellular - airpods pro 2.)

The watch hangs sometimes when safety code used after charging.

After the Apple Watch 10 update, my battery will not last more than 6 hours, before the update the battery would last 24 hours. My watch is a Series 7. Apple please send another update to fix this issue.

Same issue here - S4, lasted whole day before (at around 25% at 10pm).

Since sunday (1.10.23) at around lunchtime, my battery is being wasted by the watch.

Monday my battery was at zero around 5pm. Yesterday it lasted from 6.30am to 12pm.

Today I started at 6.30 am at 100% and now (7.11 am) I am at 75% - just sitting, drinking coffee and getting more and more angry about this situation.

I already uninstalled the 3rd party apps on my watch and restarted the watch - nothing helped so far.

I would like to go back to watchOS 9 - or at least have a fix, that gets the watchOS background processes under control!

I won‘t take my watch charging things with me all the time - I need a working watch throughout the day (tracking of sport and health parameters). And if this isn‘t to be fixed, I can‘t help me to get the strange feeling, that this might be intended to push people to buy a new apple watch - which I won‘t do. I think, I then will switch to Garmin…

Btw. while writing this, my watch dropped to 66% (7.20am) - great work, apple!!!

I have the same problem. My Ultra (battery level 100 percent) manages a maximum of 36 hours - without telephony, training, navigation or any other demanding application. It is only used as a watch, always on is disabled and at night it is in flight mode. Nevertheless, it loses almost 25 percent overnight. This is very, very annoying and I finally want a solution, apple!

After the update my watch is only making it half of a day and it’s a brand new watch less than one month old. Before the update the watch would last two days almost without charging. Very frustrated with this.

Definitely an issue for battery drain. I see a comment that says 'The vast majority of users see the battery life return to normal after several days' however that's not my experience. When is the update coming, @Apple?

With 30 Min. workout outside, I‘ve got it from 100 to 0 within two hours right now.

This is not usable any more to me… if there will be no change, I‘ll need to get another watch - most likely it will be a Garmin Fenix….

I never had the only charge to 80% issue. But I’ve lost probably six hours of battery life with this new update. Super a lot over it! Quit fixing things that aren’t broken and after you break them fix them please! Why can we no longer close apps that we’re not using with this new update?

Pretty much sums up my expereince since the update as well. The consipiracy theorist in me thinks this is Apple engineering in diminished battery life so we upgrade to the newer version. Needs to be fixed. It is simply unacceptable.

I've been experiencing the same thing. My routine of sorts is to charge first thing in the morning then wear all day/night. Pre-10.0.1 it would have approx 40-50% after 24 hours now lucky to have 4-5%...and that's with me running it in Theater/Cinema Mode. Still charges to 100%.

Same here. Before the update my watch had enough battery for at least 15 hours. Now it is gone after 6 hours (after recording two workouts of 30 minutes).

Please Apple, fix this. I can not use the watch right now, it became useless to me. The watch is only 1 year old. I don’t want to purchase another one (i would switch camps to Google if I was forced to replace the watch).

So what is it gonna take Apple to fix this problem? Sure seems that there are enough people having the exact same issue with no resolution. They wanted me to go into the Apple Store for technical support but there’s nothing wrong with my Watch. It’s the iOS that needs to be fixed.

I have read that disconnecting and reconnecting a watch could fix the issue.

So I took the time today, discoupled and coupled my watch with my iPhone again.

No effect, unfortunately, besides 1h wasted time…

What‘s even more annoying than the Energy drain of the watches of so many, is Apples silence in regard of any soon to come fix for this issue.

It would really help to know, if they even identified these energy drains as a problem worth analyzing and fixing. Without any communication, I feel left alone with a problem someone else caused on my equipment…

Same issue! I chatted with Apple help for an hour about my series 6 watch. They diagnosed my watch remotely and said I needed a new battery. I told them it was fine until the day after updating to 10.0. So the issue has to be 1) the process of updating itself caused the battery problem or 2) the update has cause background activity to run the battery down faster. Apple- we’re waiting to hear.