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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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Oct 26, 2023 2:48 PM in response to tony.d.

Getting this as well when I updated watch series 7 to os 10.1, had watch on charge and was reported watch was at 8% battery life, I usually have over a full days use of the watch before it notifies me that it needs charging.


Monitored the battery percentage and noticed while typing at my PC with watch on my wrist, the battery was draining 1% just over 1 minute, so would have to charge the watch within 2 hours.


Never had this problem before 10.1 so hope Apple have a quick fix

Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

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