Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

I have an Apple Watch Series 5 and I’m having the battery issue too since this 10.1 update. It not only did that but when I restarted my watch it was stuck on the Apple logo and never turned on. Yes, I did a hard restart but that did the same thing. My watch is completely useless now. I’ve had it since 2019 with no problems until now with this update.

Series 7 Apple Watch: I finished charging my watch at 4:50pm. It is now 6:05 and my watch is already at 50%. What is the use of a watch if it only lasts a few hours? I used to be able to charge it and wear it 3-4 days before it died. Now only hours?

I haven’t even had my watch for 48hrs and what a nightmare. I spent today texting apple support and scouring the internet whenever I had a free moment at work. My battery was dropping 1% every minute, of which I was texting Apple support each time it dropped for their records. Thanks to comments in this thread, I was able to charge my watch on low power mode (otherwise it was plummeting while ON the charger). Then I removed every single app that I could from the watch, and deleted the 3rd party watch face app entirely (Moby). Battery appears to be acting as it was the first 18hrs I had it before installing 10.1, and I have it on the charger now. Charging normally with NO overheating. Fingers crossed I’m in the clear.

So, after restoring and re- pairing 2x, my newest problem besides battery drain - no text messages and no alerts - it’s basically a simple watch at this point - apps had to be uninstalled to charge the watch (which now charges) but now there is nothing smart about my watch - messages are on and all sliders in correct position

I did the update this morning at 6:00 AM, my watch being fully charged from the night before and still on charger during update, by 7:30 AM my watch was dead. Thought it was weird so put it on the charger when I got home. Fully charged in 4 hours so I popped it back on. 2 hours later, dead again.

I removed Moby as well and so far so good. Has kept charge for quite a while, like normal. I did all the other things like unpair/pair delete apps, low power mode etc and it would recharge but then drain fast, even on charger. Seems like removing Moby/3rd party watch faces did the trick.

Last update of the day.

My Apple Watch series 7 lasted the entire day after one charge. At 8:12 PM, the battery life is at 3%, a lot lower than the previous software version which would be around 10-15%. Overall, with the unpair and re-pairing trick, it made the watch usable. Hope Apple releases a real fix soon!

Hello guys, a bit late to the party, but here’s my feedback too….

I was having similar issues - nuts that Apple have given us an update that wrecks our -very expensive - watches! Does no-one test these things???? After installing iOS 10.1 my watch went down to 67% in about 10 mins, slowed down draining when back on charge but was still going down.

Anyway, I deleted all 3rd party apps, unpaired, re-paired, popped it back on for a full charge and - so far - all seems ok. 20 mins in and holding 100%.

Hope this helps.

Like others have mentioned on here I’ve uninstalled other watch face apps. Specifically Moby Face and Watchy

I’ve left other 3rd party apps on and this seems to be solving the issue. Battery use seems to be back to normal but it’s only been an hour so will test some more and confirm.

So, I removed all 3rd part apps (and I had MobyFace within them) and battery seems back to normal. Since 8 this morning it went from 100 to 79 (which is better than usual for me) in 3 and a half hours.

it seems like we found the problem! Thank you all so much!!

It’s a setting- mine did the same but my daughter (worked for Apple years ago) and she went thru settings until something fixed problem - also my old face kept changing from multiple color to black and it was making me nauseous, she fixed that too (it had a background?) now if I could just get the audio back for alerts

This! I’ve been dealing with this issue since the beta came out and even had to send it in to be flashed with 10.0.1. Once I deleted the Moby Face app it’s been off of the charger for a full hour and it’s still at 100%!

After going through all the suggestions everyone has tried, the only thing I found that worked was to roll back the update to watch os 9 and start over. Running thing is that when I did that the watch went back to 10.1 but a different build. If you have the option to roll it back do it. If not, you may be still waiting for the patch( or update) to fix yours. DEFINITELY A SOFTWARE ISSUE!!!!

There is nothing hardware related to the watches. Hopefully this helps.

FYI, I started day with 100% at 7:15 est and now my watch is at 100% at 9:46 est.

Good luck.

This exact same thing was happening with my Apple Watch 8, then I saw here that someone mentioned about deleting the MobyFox watch app. I did that last night when my watch battery was already down to 70% after being fully charged only an hour before and not worn! Seems to be doing the trick. My watch (not currently being worn and not on the charger) is at 60% now from that 70% after about eight hours, which is far more reasonable. For two days straight after the 10.1 update, my watch was going from 100% to 0% in three hours, even when left unworn! I’m going to wear my watch today to see how it goes. Thank you to those who figured this out! I have not deleted all 3rd party apps, just MobyFox (and Buddy Watch for good measure) and it seems to be working. I still have the Starbucks app, and a space app. For anyone who hasn’t updated their watch yet to WatchOS 10.1, maybe hold off until 10.2. This has been a real pain!

Removing the apps related to watch faces and resetting the watch helped me to gain some battery performance. Charges it at 10:00am to 100% it’s 7:45pm battery at 69% seems like it’s working have a series 7 watch