Apple Watch battery drains after updating to watchOS 10.1

sorry bud, but this is happening after we updated to OS 10.1 and there hasn’t been an update to fix this. I have a series 7 and charging it over heats. I’m tempted to repair my series 3 since that seems to work better

TexKnight I will do that test right now as I reply. I have also just deleted MobyFox at 100% Apple Watch Ultra charge so will see the outcome 🤞🏻🙏🏻 I hope it helps as I have tried every trick in the book to try and resolve the battery drain!!

Absolutely sick of Apple. The stuff costs a fortune, needs updated virtually every second week, and as it turns out, the updates are often worse than any Windows viruses I’ve ever got.

This week alone, my two year old £300 watch lasts 6 hours, my £300 4 year old iPad needed to have apps deleted because the software update and operating system takes 16gb of the 32gb storage, my £1000 phone lags because it’s still “indexing”, while my £200 earphones mics no longer work.

The only difference I’ve even used is adding the Snoopy watch face to my watch. All the rest is superfluous.

All this while iCloud has jumped £24 a year in price!!

However, my THIRTEEN year old Dell laptop is running just fine after a cheap SSD and RAM upgrade.

I’m moving back to Android and away from this Apple Eco System pyramid scheme.

Apple watch was a major game changer between smartwatches and sportwatches/ activity trackers. Hiking could last around 10 hour with apple watch with no problem. Phone battery was a bit drained but at least the activity was recorded. But since the latest update to 10.1 is apple watch becoming just another smartwatch. I certainly hope, that the next update for WatchOS will solve this problem - I hope they solved it before people start switching to other sportwatches. Yep I can say apple watch was an amazing sportwatch without being sorry.

Same response as most everyone else. In June I purchased an Apple Watch Series 8 and everything was fine with the few WatchOS updates until 10.1. I receive 10% low battery warnings around 3 hours and the battery is depleted 45 minutes or so later.

Anyone else go from the battery drainage problems to being stuck in a boot loop? My series 5 watch was having battery issues after updating to 10.1 and after about a week and a half just suddenly stopped having those issues. Everything was fine for a few days and yesterday it suddenly got stuck in a boot loop. Hard reset hasn’t worked. Find my sound hasn’t worked. Unpairing hasn’t worked. So when the new update comes to fix it I won’t even be able to update! Apple broke my watch!

I have updated to 10.1.1 and my battery is still draining in 2 to 3 hours!! How do I fix this, it so frustrating to have such an expensive watch and I can't even wear it. It also take forever to charge because the battery gets so hot that it stops charging

At my appointment at the Apple Store I was told to keep my phone with me. While I ride my bike and go to the gym. WTF?! Why did I buy a cellular Apple watch if I have to keep my phone with me at all times in order to not run the battery down in 2 hours? These are exactly the times I DON"T want to have to lug my phone around. If there isn't some sort of fix for this by the time I need a new watch, this will definitely be my last cellular watch and maybe my last Apple watch. Maybe I'll just go back to wearing a quality timepiece.

my watch went from 93% to 83% in a matter of minutes WHILE ON THE CHARGER after this upgrade. Can I go back to the previous OS? This is really unacceptable. Why would Apple put out such a faulty update?

I guess what I'm realizing is that it's time to shop for another watch. Do I NEED an Apple Watch? Nah. Yesterday I went online and found a half-dozen Tag Heuer watches that are beautiful and won't be functionally useless in a year and obsolete in 3 years.

Same here. For now, a Garmin watch has replaced my Apple Watch. It works surprisingly well. Only needs charging every couple weeks and has better fitness, sleep, and activity functionality. Interestingly, it communicates with my iPhone 13 Pro as well as my Apple Watch did. This evolution with watchOS has made me question my subscription to Apple One and future Apple product purchases. Now that I can’t use Apple Fitness+, because I don’t like my Apple Watch anymore I’m really questioning do I use any of the other services for the $38 a month on the family plan that they’re charging. I’m thinking there are better alternatives. As I contemplate leaving the Apple ecosystem; I am finding Windows, Google Docs, and Android have improved, are flexible, stable, and more secure than they used to be.

This is all ridiculous. I've got an Apple Watch Series 8, and you're saying I need to disable most of the features I purchased it for in able to use it.

I've re-paired my watch twice. I re-set it my watch as a new watch, yet even when I spend a day at home, not using music, fitness, timers, or ANYTHING, my watch is at 45% by 4:00.

I'm think I'm done.

I'm on Apple Watch 9 and I noticed significant battery drain since updating to 10.1 yesterday. My watch dies twice as fast now. So sad.

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

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.