Apple Watch battery drains after updating to watchOS 10.1

Update: After changing just the location in the weather to a fixed city, the drain slowed, but in 3 hours I still used 63% of my battery life. I will be forced to attempt to disable all location services now and see if that helps. This is NOT acceptable by any stretch of the imagination.

Mine is doing the same and I am getting no where with support

Same with mine

Thanks, will try deleting that. I don’t even use it, just installed it to try it at one point.

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...

Downloaded the new update for my Apple Watch (SE) and noticed it was hot. That went away but for two days in a row, after charging my battery dies in less than two hours. It’s ridiculous. I basically have a completely unusable brick on my wrist. This needs to be fixed immediately. These things cost way too much to suffer from these issues.

Agree with this comment 100%! My watch is absolutely useless.

This needs to be patched quickly as I, sure it’s damaging long term.

Temporary Solution: Uninstall all 3rd party apps. Reset and re-pair your watch to the phone. Uncheck auto-app install. Use only stock apps until Apple can release a fix. You can also try reinstalling one app at a time to determine which apps are the source of the battery drain. Once I did this, my watch returned to normal operation on a series 8 and a series 5.

Funny you say to

"Update to the latest software.

Always make sure your Apple Watch is using the latest version of watchOS.

This is what got us in this situation. I get 3 hours and after being on phone for some time yesterday day with Apple. All they could suggest is letting it charge to all night then track how long it takes to drain and reopen the case.

So here apple I took my series 6 off charger about 8am and it's 11:06 and on its way to being dead

Also note the pause in charging and states paused cause of battery temp with no evidence it was charging but when I took off charger it was 99% then steadily drains.

I’ve been watching battery life since the previous iOS tanked my series 5, since updating to 10.1 yesterday and after rebooting both watch and iPhone I have noticed my watch actually lasts longer…..got up today at 10am and put the watch on, used normal 3rd party apps during the day and it’s now 1am and it’s sat at 20% - all this with a battery health that states 79% recommend service is fine for me…..

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!

It's funny how they give us a generic response like turning it on low power mode but my battery lost it's last 10 percent on low power mode in 15 minutes.

I've noticed the exact same thing. I thought that maybe the watch just wasn't charging to 100% or there was an issue with my charger. I've bought a new charger and charging brick thinking it was an issue with the charging hardware. I've ran through all of the troubleshooting - wipe, restore and setting it back up with the same issue - lasting less than 8 hours. My watch face is always off - which is a setting that I have used since my Series 0, and the display is off after 60 seconds. I will try uninstalling the Moby Face app that was mentioned in this thread. I have reached out to Apple for a support case and will see what they say as or the next course of action. I wish there was an easy way to roll the AppleWatch back to a previous WatchOS as I would roll mine back to WatchOS 10.0.