Problems with Apple Watch after updating to watchOS 10.0.1

Use Control Center on Apple Watch explains "Control Center gives you an easy way to check your battery, silence your watch, choose a Focus, turn your Apple Watch into a flashlight, put your Apple Watch in Airplane Mode, turn on theater mode, and more."

Open or close Control Center

• Open Control Center: Press the side button once.
• Close Control Center: With Control Center open, turn your wrist away from you or press the side button again.

clr1968 wrote:

Same

Same...response.

Use Control Center on Apple Watch explains "Control Center gives you an easy way to check your battery, silence your watch, choose a Focus, turn your Apple Watch into a flashlight, put your Apple Watch in Airplane Mode, turn on theater mode, and more."

Open or close Control Center

• Open Control Center: Press the side button once.
• Close Control Center: With Control Center open, turn your wrist away from you or press the side button again.

If you push the button underneath the crown on the right side of the Watch, all of your controls will be there. You used to be able to swipe up and get access to water ejection, ping your phone, silence, your phone, etc. I was having the same problem this morning and came across it by accident. Hopefully this helps.

To get to the Control Center where you can silence your phone, go to airplane mode, check your battery strength, etc … open your watch to its Home Screen then push the button on the right side of the watch face, below the crown.

isj1 wrote:

Its the same button as for an emergency 911. What brain thought of that?

One is a momentary press, and one is a long press.

Most likely based on a screen tap vs a tap & hold. Or putting your car high beams on vs flashing your high beams to signal an on coming driver there is something ahead of them they should be careful about.

Getting more functionality out of a limited number of input controls.

I did follow the instructions I was sent yesterday from the community to find my controls but I still think it was stupid having to push the side button instead of just swiping up. My brother today told me he has actually hit the side button accidentally several times when moving his wrist. He got a text message asking if he had an emergency. He had to type in no and send back. Not sure why they needed to change the swipe up when it just duplicates time, weather and activity already on another screen. If anything, why not have it so users can add anything they want to that swipe up page.

The 10.0.1 OS made some things more complicated. You can not swipe up on the watch face to access Battery Level, Opera, silent or having your phone make a sound to find it by pressing a button. Changing watch faces requires additional steps. I would rather have the old version OS because these are things I use often .

John

I'm having MAJOR issues with my Apple Watch Series 4 since updating to 10.0.1.

The worst issue I have is that the battery drains to nothing within a matter of hours. Prior to the update I NEVER HAD BATTERY ISSUES. Since the update to watchOS 10 there are nights where I go to bed with 100% power and I wake up 6-7 hours later with it either totally DEAD or dead enough where it will only show the time when pressing a button. So my sleep doesn't get logged. But sometimes under the exact same circumstances I wake up with it at 40%.

There are mornings when I leave my place and it's at 100%, and within 5 hours it's telling me it's down to 10%. Then there are rare times when it will get me 8-10 hours.

There is NOTHING enabled on my watch anymore due to these problems. I keep it on airplane mode ALWAYS. Every time I put it on the charger I put it into low power mode. I have cellular disabled and WIFI off. The volume is turned all the way down. The screen brightness is turned all the way down. And yet it KEEPS only lasting a few hours ever since this update!!!

The other MAJOR problem I am now having is the watch freezes half the time! It randomly wont respond to me touching the screen or side buttons. Even though it's ALWAYS next to my iPhone 13 Pro Max, I'd say at least 75% of the time I hold down the crown side button for a second so SIRI is listening, I then give it a voice command to remind me of something or whatever, it will show what I said on the screen, and then tell me SOMETHING IS WRONG AND IT DOESNT UNDERSTAND!

I cannot describe how FRUSTRATING all this is!!!

Back when the watch was new it was $800-$900. Plus I am paying $15/month for cellular service on it which I cannot even enable because of the new battery problem.

So am I being forced to buy a new watch now??

Because Apple won't let me downgrade the software back to when everything worked, now I am having to buy a new watch?? I think this is really MESSED UP.

Is anyone else having the same issues with their watch?

I have an Apple Watch series 8, updated it last night while it was on the charger and woke up this morning with it at 35% and drained within an hour of having it on. Before the update that would have lasted at least until I got home. It got very hot also, I’m super upset about it and hopefully they fix it soon or I’ll send it back and replace it.

Its the same button as for an emergency 911. What brain thought of that?

I have 10.0.1 and I have to sign onto my watch every hour or so. This is very annoying.

Wow! thx: was driving me crazy! Strange function now...

Thank you, that worked. Press the side button and get your control panel back.

They should have left well enough alone. It was just easier swiping up!

My SE power level is completely draining by late afternoon since the latest update. Prior to that I would rarely drop below 65% for the whole day!