Using series 5 watch. Since updating my watch goes to under 10% battery after about 9 hours. With watchos 10 it lasted 16-17 hours with AOD and minimal useage. Thoughts/suggestions (besides wait for next os)?
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Dear all,
Let me share all the things that did NOT solve this problem and the one thing that DID solve this for me.
Background: iPhone 13 running iOS17, Apple Watch series 6, updated from WatchOS 9 directly to WatchOS 10.1.1 after which battery life dropped from 18+ hours to 8 hours, and this did not improve for several weeks.
What did NOT solve it:
What DID solve it for me:
The excessive battery drain was solved immediately. This procedure comes with great disadvantages, e.g. I lost all my watch-faces with edited choice of complications, I had to reconnect the Watch with my activity tracker app, I had to rearrange all app icons to the positions I prefer in the app viewer, I had to choose playlists of songs to be downloaded to Apple Watch again, I had to go through my Apple Watch settings and adjust these to my preferences, and probably a few more nuisances. Despite these, I am happy that my Apple Watch lasts through the day again...
I hope this helps some of you...
Frustrated, again this morning after charging all night, I left the house at 100%. After a couple hours I was nearly 59%. Deleted anything that wasn’t part of apple. Clean OS 10.1 and tried again - nothing worked. I decided to try Apples Beta program as I found that OS 10.2 was out. Installed and now after 3 1/2 hours I’m at 90%. So it seems Apple knows and is trying to correct “their” flub on the last update. We’ll see…
Hi … I have done minor changes on my Apple Watch … first step was turn off the always on display. The second thing was changing the watch face with something less informative … so the main and the biggest change was of course battery life time - I can use my Apple Watch gen 5 with one charging for 2 days… I can conclude that the watch was pretty much nonstop updating me with weather temperature and other widgets which eventually drain battery of my watch…
Another interpretation is that some third party app is not using APIs properly and needs to be updated by their authors. Uninstall all and if that fixes issue, selectively reenable those you actually use.
I deleted all 3rd party apps and all non-essential Apple apps, reset my watch, completed two appointments with Apple support folks. Turned off location services. Turned off background refresh. We have determined the problem is NOT my watch. Therefore, the common denominator to the problem is Apple watchOS 10.0, 10.1, 10.1.1. Same for four other Apple Watches in my circle who have updated to watchOS 10.x.x. All of our watches worked very will on watchOS 9.6.3. I bought a Garmin watch two weeks ago...it is still running on the initial charge wearing it 24x7 and it has most of the communication and fitness functions I used my Apple Watch for. It is so sad, and infuriating, that Apple is blindly and stubbornly going down this path. Why all of a sudden does Apple dismiss so many Apple Watch customers?
UPDATE: removing the MobyFace app from the watch helped a lot. The battery is not draining anymore.
Same here, uninstalling virtually all 3rd party apps off my Watch seems to have fixed the battery drain problem on my Apple Watch Ultra (original) after 10.1 update for now. One of the apps I uninstalled was the MobyFace app mentioned in another reply. I only left Cardiogram, FordPass, Gaia, Google Maps, MEATER, and Oceanic+ as the ones I actually use...
That did it for me (removing MobyFace)! I wonder if it is only this app, or if there is some kind of API or system call that only some apps use that is causing this, and that is why it is not a universal problem. Thanks for calling it out by name!
Ever since watch iso 10! My watch battery has been draining , I found out several things that helps but I can’t wait til the fix it
one for me was to turn off weather ( whatever app you use) off all the time location , then turn off wake to wrist raise, and then turned off either all more most back ground apps,
but this is the website I got my info from what I heard it’s a glitch from the weather apps between iso 17 for phones and watch 10 :(
https://newsd.in/top-12-ways-to-fix-watchos-10-battery-drain-issue/?fbclid=IwAR1Q5qe2c0XTAPNl88qSRaY6Uw5Jdwkri8LAY9oQZe7z-mQ9n3TwckDYNDc_aem_AbWTY6LtJY5qVG80duUJY8_HRTMZpHPm3eUpQYep6EyYag8qB_XkKg6J35rSakm5mUg I found that turning off weather apps location something besides from all the time, turn off background refresh and turn off what you can , and turn off wake wrist raise
I did the very same thing initially and visited an Apple Store and they sent it away. Hard reset done and didn’t help with the battery. Now with this MobyFox deleted it seems to have resolved the issue. Like I said if you don’t have that App might be worth getting rid of any other 3rd party Apps to test it!
fire1962 wrote:
I don’t really have any third party installed. It’s frustrating but I’ll just have to wait I guess
"Don't really" is not the same as you don't have any third party apps installed. Do you have any? If so, delete them and add them back a couple at a time, observing battery drain after you add them back.
I removed all face apps. Switch weather app to fixed location. Now 30% from 22.00 till 17.30.
used 3x starva total 2.5h so for me temperary solved
Moby Fox app: if you have it delete it. That was the only change I made and I am back to the 2 day battery life again, with no other issues. Working like new again.
My Ultra watch has been having the same issue since upgrading to WatchOS 10.1. I even updated my phone to iOS 17.1 first and still have an issue. I was even having issues with it charging. I have the Apple fast charger and after 30 minutes my batter only increased by 1%. After restarting my watch, twice, that seemed to help with how slow it was charging at least. I left the house at 7 this morning at 100% and now 3 hours later I'm down to 40%, with doing nothing but wearing it.
I removed MobyFox and a couple other of 3rd party apps I no longer used. Powered off my Ultra, powered it back on and put it on the charger. That seems to have done the trick. I put it on at 100% charge yesterday at 3PM, it's just after 8PM and it is still at 61% - seems to be back to normal in regards to battery drain.
Hopefully that fixes it.
Apple Watch battery drains after updating to watchOS 10.1
