Apple Watch Battery Drain Issues after Update

It would be good to have an option to step back to watchOS9, if Apple doesn‘t care to fix these battery drain issues.

At least they not only destroyed my watch, witch worked well until this update. They destroyed my trust into the Company and their customer support as well.

Next of my products won‘t have a fruity logo any more. Sad.

I was having the same problem with 5 series watch, battery lasting less than 12 hours. Turned off location services on the watch and the battery is back to where it was before update 10.0.01. Not an ideal scenario but it’s a workaround until Apple resolve the issue.

Had a call with Support today - they recommendet to me to wait another week…. What else could I do :D

And they did some check on my watch (I think, they just collected logs) and saw that my battery had 79% health and suggested to replace it, if my watch won‘t recover within the next week.

Let me think.. either my watch had 100% battery health (16 hrs. duration) before the update and it - coincidently - dropped to 79% (3 hrs. duration) after the watchOS update… then I would be curious to learn the math, where 20% of 16 hrs. are 13 hrs., while 80% are 3 hrs.

In the other scenario the watch battery had about 80% before the update and lastet 16 hrs. and has 79% after the update and lasts now 3 hrs.

All this points to the update / software draining the batteries and won‘t get better, if I would replace the battery for 120€ as suggested.

I assume the watch would last 3.5 hrs with a new battery, I will lack the money and still can throw it into the duster.

Btw. today the watch died during my workout, after 44:37 minutes. It sucks…

Same here, but Apple Watch 7, no GPS. Mine only charges to 75%, and by bedtime it’s down to 20%. Before I installed 10.0.1 the charge never dropped below 80% — and now I can’t even get it charged to 80%! I saw a comment here that the battery drain rate usually returns to normal a few days after you install an OS update. That has most definitely not been the case for me. Apple needs to fix this. Having to put my watch on a charger twice a day is not acceptable.

What exactly do you mean by “after touching watch”? I’ve touched my watch after it’s been on the charger for several hours and is still only charged to 75% and it doesn’t continue to charge fully after I touch it.

Apparently this is the new normal.

I estimate that the battery drain rate on my Series 5 has roughly doubled since watchOS 10 was installed. I don't want to spend hours on the phone with support only to be told that I need to buy a new watch, as obviously this problem is new to the OS update and lots of folks with much newer watches than my own are having the same problem.

Same! My watch also goes black and no matter what I press it doesn’t come back on. My battery life use to last me all day and now it’s only lasting about 6 hours. They’ve been burning the battery on my iPhone 13 Pro with all the updates as well.

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After 2 weeks, restoring my iPhone in recovery mode, and updating my iPhone to the latest IOS my watch seems to be back to normal, not sure which of those things did it, but it seems to have worked.

My watch now has comparable battery life to before the update, and actually lasts longer if I use the new low power mode feature.

So I was one of the early posters in this thread. With the release of IOS 17.0.3 my watch seems to be back to normal. My Apple Watch 6 is lasting an entire day on a single charge. First time in weeks. Hopefully this holds true for others.

I experienced similar post-software update, with battery losing considerable charge eg down to 6% after 24 hours. A couple days ago I thought to switch my watch off and back on and, lo and behold, I’m back to approx 50% after 24 hours. Give it a go!

I was experiencing the same problem, and I had also noticed that it lost connection with my phone. It was only connecting through the cellular data. So here’s what I did I unpaired the watch then I repaired the watch to the phone. I selected a different back update not the most recent one. Now I’m just going back to US cellular to have them reactivate my cellular plan on my watch. But the battery drain now is a whole lot better.

Same here. Series 5 used to last all day and still at 20% before bedtime. After iOS 10 update it’s at 88% from 100% after 30 minutes. And is dead after 6 hours. Need a new update to solve this. Shocking battery life now 😢

I have a first generation SE and everything was fine until the latest update. Battery draining very quick and not lasting anything near as long as before the update. I’m going to try and unpair then pair again to see if that helps.

I have an Apple Watch Ultra and I do use the watch to go to sleep and now whenever I do it drains about 40% of battery while sleeping. it used to be only 1 - 4% at most. its crazy and I have no idea what's going on.

It appears the Noise app was enabled automatically after the update. This will significantly reduce battery life. Personally, I was getting 14-16 hours and it was completely dead, after turning off I now get 16 hours and still have about 40%. I also disable the always on screen.

Series 7 watch.