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Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

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.

Posted on Oct 25, 2023 9:56 PM

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Posted on Dec 3, 2023 6:33 AM

My watch used to last two days, even with me running an hour a day. I no longer run and now it drains faster. I have to put it on the charger overnight and again mid-day. Normally, it takes about an hour to charge. But there are days that it takes up to five hours to hit 100%. I haven’t added anything or changed any settings since I got it almost two years ago.

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Jan 21, 2024 5:58 PM in response to tony.d.

I can no longer track a complete surf session on my watch. If it lasts more than 2 hours, the battery dies and I can't even end my workout. This has been happening since the 10.1 update and all subsequent updates have not resolved the issue. I have a Series 8 and the warranty coverage expired literally days before this issue began. I never had a problem in the past and have records of a number of 4+ hour workouts recorded using the same app. It now won't last more than 2 hours. Has anyone else found any kind of solution for this? My watch is only a few months past its 1 year anniversary. This seems like an unreasonably short life span for an expensive product.

Jan 21, 2024 9:25 PM in response to dominickfromNYC

dominickfromNYC wrote:

Has anyone had any improvements on this?? I haven’t, and I’m so annoyed by this.. I wrote a complaint to Apple and I don’t know what to do next. Any advice would be welcomed.

There have been a number of suggestions made in the 47 pages of this thread. One of them involves removing an app called Moby Face. I suggest you start at the beginning an work your way through.

Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

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