Apple Watch battery drains after updating to watchOS 10.1

Forgive me Jeff but this is not helpful. Hope Apple comes out with a fix for this because it is unacceptable.

Watch is worthless if it can’t make it through a normal 8 hour work day. Something seriously wrong with this update.

“Update to the latest software”. That’s the worst advice ever right now. I updated and now my Ultra is essentially an extremely expensive paperweight. Thanks Apple!

Yeah mine the same watch was draining on the charger apple need to sort this asap or the watch is useless and I want to sell my series 6 to upgrade her it sorted apple

Same here with my Series 4. After the update to watchOS 10.1, the battery is down to 60 % after a few minutes after charging it.

@Jeff_888: before just sending some general advice from the Knowledge Base, analyse the issue. Because sending bot-like standard responses to a severe issue is just annoying.

Took my watch off to charge it when I got up this morning. 15% left after just over 24 hours. That includes one workout done yesterday.

Even more so. My Ultra (first gen) usually gets 2-2.5 days per charge. I updated to WatchOS 10.1 yesterday and it went from 80% to 10% in about four hours. A few reboots and a charge to 100%, I went to bed at 10pm. At 4:00am, I was at 7%. I have it in the charger now, hanging in front of a blowing fan to keep it cool and trying to get it up to 100% without overheating.

the oddest thing is that when I check the battery in the settings, these charge and discharge cycles are blank. As if the watch was off the whole time, with just a handful of green bars in the 70-80% range, then blank for several hours.

I’m very tempted to wear my old Garmin watch until the next WatchOS update. At least it will tell the time and last a few days between charges.

Mine is the same. Last years model- series 8 maybe? Before updating to 10.1, even with workouts and AOD, I only had to charge about once every 24-30 hours. Since updating yesterday morning to 10.1, I have charged my watch about 8 times, it's taking considerably longer to charge than I actually get to wear it, and I only use the fast charger. It lasts maybe 3-4 hours and then has to charge for about 2. This is ridiculous. Is there a way to downgrade the OS version because I'd love to do that.

correction, the battery chart hasn’t updated at all, despite reboots.

And, btw, that 5% drain was in 20 minutes. At this rate, the Ultra will run for about six hours, which matches my overnight experience last night.

I found an app draining the battery: Watch Faces by MobyFox

I removed the app and now it’s gone back to normal battery usage! 88% after 4 hours and slept with the watch on last night after 7 hours still had charge left.

Add me to the growing list of frustrated Apple Watch owners. I have an 8. Usually get 48 hours on a charge. I updated to 10.1 last night at 12:30am. Overslept this morning because the alarm didn't go off. Looked at my watch and it was dead as a doornail. Charged it this morning and a short time later it was dead again. Started paying close attention and noticed it was losing about 1% per minute! At one point I put it on the charger and got it up to 70% and it stopped, then started LOSING charge while on the charger and started getting very hot.

Some google-fu pointed to an issue with location services. You can disable location services altogether, which requires disabling it on the phone as well, so I opted not to do that. Alternative workaround is to go into the weather complication and set the location to a specific city, rather than "current location". It has drastically reduced battery drain. It's not perfect, though. I've lost 20% in the past hour and a half, which is still entirely unacceptable. I may still have to resort to disabling location services completely if Apple can't push an update soon.

It seems for many people this started with 10.0. I didn't have an issue until 10.1 last night.

I had the same issues on both a Series 4 and Series 9.

Series 9 I unpaired/re-paired twice (this actually made everything worse). Series 4 I did not do so.

This morning I removed all 3rd party apps from both (Series 4 and Series 9) and they've stabilized, no more drastic battery drain.

I got that tip from a different thread, but theoretically apps shouldn't be able to use battery life in the background. So it might be a syncing issue after the os update.

No, it's the update issue for 10.1. I went to sleep with my battery at 99% and woke up to 3%! Charged this morning, and between 8:30am-12:26pm, I'm already down to 57%. How do we revert back?!

Everything I can find says there is no way to rollback to a previous version. Thanks Apple!