Series 7 Apple Watch. After 10.1 update my battery only lasts a few hours. I can literally watch the percentage go down. Rebooted the watch. Shut off background app refresh after advised by a friend. Still drains ridiculously fast. It’s essentially useless now. I’m out of ideas. Anyone else have this problem? This is crazy.
Read my comment above… I reset my Watch four times in total. The fourth one Apple told me to reset but not use a back up. Still did not work. Call Apple back. They basically told me it was a software issue and there’s nothing they can do to fix it until an update rolls out. Then hopefully the update will fix the battery issue.
Read my comment above… I reset my Watch four times in total. The fourth one Apple told me to reset but not use a back up. Still did not work. Call Apple back. They basically told me it was a software issue and there’s nothing they can do to fix it until an update rolls out. Then hopefully the update will fix the battery issue.
Just an update on this post. I found a solution that worked for me. It probably won’t be a solution for others as this seems to be a bit if a mystery on why this happened.
The short story: I deleted all those third party watch face apps. That fixed it.
The longer version: First thing I did after having the watch off all night was reset it as new. Took awhile because the battery drained really fast while it was repairing. Had to wait for it charge back up so it could finish. Honestly, it was a waste of time. The watch wouldn’t even charge. Stayed at between 15 and 17 percent.
In one of these threads here someone mentioned removing the watch face apps ( it was either Facer or Moby Face) so on my iPhone I deleted all of them (I had four) and waited. My watch was at 100% within a half hour. And it was cool to the touch. Not hot. It is now about 7 1/2 hours later and I’m down to 74%. Which is normal. I expect it to be better tomorrow because I won’t be fiddling with it as much. This also solved another problem (which I posted in another thread) The iPhone Watch App was misbehaving. All changes made to any of the faces, added faces or deleted faces wouldn’t sync over. I couldn’t even change faces from the app. This fixed that too.
Not sure why these app made this mess. Bad code. Not updated for watchOS 10. Who knows. But if you have these apps try deleting them.
edit: Seems to be what others are saying. Delete those apps. That should do it. But like I said. Might not work for everyone.
My one week old watch was fine until I let it update to 10.1 last night. It immediately got super hot and battery drained from 98% to 20% in about 30 min. I can’t get it to charge because it stays overheated. I’ve rebooted, reset to factory, disabled a ton of features and nothing helps. It won’t charge beyond 30%.
The update broke it. Brand. New. Watch!! I’m so mad.
Same for me on a Series 8. I took mine off the charger at 100 percent at 9 p.m., then went to bed. In sleep focus with the screen off and at 1:30 it was totally dead. I've reset and restarted and the drain persists. I've had trouble getting it to charge as well. It sat on the charger for 30 minutes today and lost 1 percent battery. I had to turn on airplane mode to get it to charge and even then it went from 41 to 45 percent in 45 minutes.
Same issue. Appple Watch series 8. Went to bed with 100% battery and woke up with a dead watch. Reset my watch 3 times from back up. Still drained to 20% in under an hour. Apple support had me reset my watch without using a backup. Still drained insanely fast. 77% to 63% in 30 mins. Called Apple support again. After running a diagnostic test, they said the hardware was fine and it was a software issue. They have NO fix except for me to wait for the next update and hope if fixes the battery issue. My watch is useless at this point.
Posted this in another thread. Updated to 10.1 yesterday after charging to 100%. Three hours later was shocked to see low battery alert. Tried to charge in the evening but could only get to 56% after two hours. After a hard restart, it went from 34% to 56% pretty fast. But then it died overnight.
This morning, charged to 100% (maybe a little less), pretty quickly. But again, low battery in 3 hours. In fact, it went from 21% to 4% in 15 minutes. Then it took 4+ hours to charge to 100%, with a hard restart mixed in. Been off the charger 51 minutes and I'm down to 78% already.
Not good, not normal.
My Ultra2 drained from 85 to 23 in like 3 hours! And then from 74 to 22 in like 2! And it was on the charger for hours to get it to 74% only for it to drain so low that I just left it at home because what’s the point? I mean this is a practically brand new $800+ watch and I can’t even use it right now. We need this fixed immediately!
This 10.1 is a trash update! Apple Watch 8, full battery to dead in less than 6 hours. I can feel the heat dissipating from the watch against my wrist this crap is running up the CPU so high unnecessarily. Somebody’s API call is messing up. Rebooted. Reset. Nothing. Still burning up that battery.
Please help mark the post about reporting this via Feedback - Watch - Apple as helpful, so it appears at the top on the first page. The more people that report it, the higher likelyhood it will be taken seriously.
Same issue on a replacement series 4 I received today 10/27. Brand new-to-me, wouldn't charge to full due to overheating, and drained at last check, 8% in 12 minutes. Very hot on charger. On with Apple support right now and the person said: "Hey I would recommend you not using the Apple Watch until advised by the senior team, I will now escalate this case to the senior team, who will further investigate and help you with your option." Having tons of other issues after being forced to update to 10.1 like apps not showing correctly, trouble pairing, problems restarting the watch. Yuck.
Someone posted that they deleted the Mobyface app from their watch and it fixed the issue. I deleted it and all other non-Apple apps from the watch and it has gone back to working normally.
If you haven't already, it is worth trying and I hope it works for some of you as this is a super irritating issue.
71% drain in 5hrs. And charging to 100% is nearly impossible as it can take 2 hours. On series 8, and prior to WatchOS 10.1, battery health is at 100%.
First time I've experienced a horrible update from Apple.
If anyone has the Moby Fox app delete it. Before my watch wouldn’t charge above 75 percent and would be hot.
Removed from charger dropped to 60 simply checking it. Deleted Moby Fox app placed on charger and within 2-3 minutes it was at 81.
Watch is now cool and is fully charged. I hope this works until they can fix whatever they broke with this update.
Series 9 went from 100% to 20% in 20 minutes. All due to latest update yesterday V 10.1
Each time a new version is installed is normal to experience this kind of behaviors as part of a rebuild of caches. I am sure will go back to normal values after a couple of days.
Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.
