Apple Watch battery drains after updating to watchOS 10.1

EDO04 wrote:

Apple Watch SE here. Charged mine overnight, as I usually do. Woke up this morning and watch was extremely hot and only charged to 7%.

If you have the MobyFace app installed on your phone, delete it.

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?!

Do you have the Moby Fox app installed?

My watch was at 100% this morning at 5:30am and hit 10% at 9am. I put it on the charger and figured it would be fine, but it died again an hour later. Now I'm watching it, on the charger, losing battery (went from 15% to 12% just now). The only thing I did was update to 10.1 this morning.

Hopefully Apple figures this out and gets it fixed ASAP....

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.

Same story here. Before Watch update 10, my Watch (Model 8) would last at least 30 hours. Now I’m lucky if I get 20 hours. Maybe I should feel fortunate that I am getting 20 hours given some of the messages I’ve been reading about other users and their unfortunate experiences after performing this update. I am hoping Apple understands the disappointment this issue is causing throughout the community and fixes this issue in the next 10.2 update.

I am having same issue. Apples lame fix suggestions didn’t work. I turned everything off set watch to minimal power and still drains from 100% to 0 in less then 2 hours. I even went so far as to completely reset / delete everything on watch and then reactivate it. Only minimal charge ding that ie.. add about 10 min before it drained to 0. Used to last around 30 hours prior to update. Why is the consumer being forced to be the “test bed” for updates?

Years ago 24 + while serving in the military, where I was in charge of the wide area network for a large Base I wouldn’t even think of pushing out a router, switch, or hub IOS update without putting it on a test bed for a minimum of 30 days running as close to every system I could over it before doing the update, to ensure little if any issues.

Seems like the easy fix is to push out a revert back update so the customers could still have use of there watch, along with an apology, while fixing and testing the new update to ensure it works correctly then issuing it back out.

But maybe I’m being too logical.

Maybe what should happen is the laws need to be changed making the manufacture responsible for any damage the update may have caused to the device, and force them to fix/replace it at there expense, along with compensation for time lost not being able to use said device. Similar to what the EU did with standardizing the cable interface for all devices, which forced Apple to put USB C on all there new devices and finally getting rid of the horrible lightning connector.

My series 5 updated to 10.1 Oct 28, around 4pm 100% battery. At 7:30pm, I had a notification it was at 10% and shut down shortly after. Same thing on Oct 29, 100% at 12 noon, shutting down after 2% notification around 3:30pm

I’m using Watch SE and ipdated to Watch OS 10.1. Battery drains to 0 just within 8 hours. It’s still same case when it’s OS 10. But before updating to OS10 series, everything was fine! Please fix it asap

I’ve noticed more Apple Watches for sale on eBay. I’ve been in contact with a dozen or so and all are on WOS10 and moving on to something else. Sad. They might regret it…or not. I’ve been able to strip-down my watch’s software and functionality to get 24 hours of use, about half what it was on WOS9, but at least it’s a watch and expensive Fitbit for now.

The Apple support folks said the battery condition is acceptable at 84% peak capacity. The point is the watch lasted an entire day on a charge with a battery that had 84% peak capacity. Now it lasts eight hours on a battery that still has 84% peak capacity. Apple will replace a battery for $300 (USD) if above 80% capacity, the cost goes down to $100 (USD) if the battery has less than 80% capacity. The battery is not a problem according to Apple.

My series 6 is draining to 0% in 2 hours after updating to 10.1

Yeah mines the same can’t find anything on the internet as yet but needs sorting asap my watch drains from 93% to 0% in less than 2 hours

Here same issue from 100% to 0% in 2 hours😡

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