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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...
I uninstalled the Moby Fox app yesterday. Put my watch on at 2:00 AM. It is now 11:00 AM and I have 34% battery remaining.
Using an Ultra, I used to get about 2.5 days of battery life!! Now since the update….. 🤬🤬 about 3 hours in LOW POWER MODE!! The best the part is get super hot while charging!!! So are they going to wait until someone house catches fire?!!! Y’all know you completely f’ed up this one!!! Yes I’ve reached out to support!!! I guess we’ll have to keep watching to news!! Y’all stay safe!!
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
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.
David B1 wrote:
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.
Given that Apple rates the battery as being good for 18 hours, you should necessarily consider yourself lucky, just average.
My 6 also only lasts a couple hours. Have an appointment for tomorrow to take it into the Apple Store to hopefully walk back the update.
I now have a useless watch. My 6 lasts a couple hours now versus the whole day plus it was lasting before. Anyone find any solutions yet?
If deleting it fixes this you are my savior and that app needs to fix itself.
Just deleted it and will report back
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
Deleting the Mobyface app fixed it for me. My guess is that some 3rd party apps that don’t frequently update conflict with the new update and drains the battery.
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
The best thing apple can do is at least recognize issue.
This is not an issue with management, this is DEFINITELY an OS issue. Everything was fine before I upgraded to watchOS 10.1. Is there a patch coming out to fix this? It is VERY problematic!!
Apple Watch battery drains after updating to watchOS 10.1
