Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

i have an ultra 1 and it was dying within a couple hours after the 10.1 update and wasn’t charging past 70%. I turned off optimized charge limit and deleted moby fox and so far it’s back to normal. There will hopefully be a patch update on the next firmware update to fix this but this seems to be the work around for the time being. I will fully charge tonight and test on full battery tomorrow.

Deleting the MobyFace app fixed it. Mine dropped to dead in an hour, and wouldn’t last more than a few hours today after the update this morning. Now it has been 90 minutes at 98% using a normal amount of power.

Tony, deleted the third party apps on Watch and it seems to work after a reset. Unfortunately though 10.1 hit battery health significantly.

At least in the short term there seems to be a work around! Thank you!

I don’t have MobyFace. But I reset it and paired it again and while the battery charges now to 100% whereas before it only charged to 75%, it drains in about 4 hours from 100% to zero. Apple fix this crap. The watch is rendered useless. Only happened after the 10.1 update. My watch is a series 9 so it’s not even old.

I read the solutions on here regarding the Moby Face and deleted it, reset the watch and at present it does seem to be working but the watch face I have had since early May was a Ted Lasso, AFC Richmond crest. It has never given a problem before, Ted Lasso airs on Apple TV!! Lost the option now.

So one of the things I noticed is I can’t wear my watch in my job so I had it in my truck for over 8hrs and watch only went down to 98% but from wearing it already going down again and I don’t understand the issue

This was the case for me. Erasing all the content, hard resetting or shutting off the watch didn’t fix the battery drain but once I offloaded every non-essential app, my Series 8 started functioning normally. I really wish I had done this first; setting up the watch from scratch several times was a real pain and I still have to recreate all my watch faces.

The problem is the update. I shouldn’t HAVE to delete anything from my watch. I have a perfectly fine iWatch ultra that lasts up to three days on one charge. After this update, it’s killing my battery. I go from completely full 100% to dead in less than 8 hours. This is unacceptable and Apple needs to fix it like, yesterday. I rely on having my watch at work, and this is just ridiculous. What happened to testing updates before rolling them out?

I was devastated yesterday, waking up after taking the 10.1 Upgrade. I managed to get through 40 minutes of fitness and it died. Charging was a joke. I rebooted, same, I removed 3rd party apps as suggested, rebooted. Seemed ok. Reloaded the bare minimum. And for some reason I considered Moby Face App to be min in spite of barely ever using it. This morning, coming here, read the reports on that app. Removed it, rebooted phone and watch. And I'm operating at about normal. Big down side, I lost a full percent of battery health because of the shenanigans of yesterday. Down from a perfect 100% to 99%. Before yesterday I had NEVER left the house without my Ultra on, and before that, never without my apple watch on since apple watch. This was a bad one. Delete Moby app if you've got it. IF you don't have that app and you have this issue, you should shout that out. It could help others.

Series 7 no MobyFace 10.1 update battery drains to 0 in less than hour. This is totally unacceptable. Get it fixed Apple!!! This is the first time without Apple watch since the first one came out!!! This is a total joke Apple. Are you hiring discount engineers? We pay big money for these accessories. Fix this now.

Shame there has been no news report about the issue. Lots of people are probably wondering what is going on. Wasted “people” hours spent googling trying to find out what is wrong and if there was a fix, then trying the fixes must be astronomical if added up.

Tried taking it to Apple today to see if they could put it back to 10. They said they couldn’t then gave me a bunch of bull that the update is optimizing and it should start working normally in 24 to 48 hours. You can hand that bull to someone who doesn’t know tech. Now I have an 800 dollar brick till they fix the update

You should not have to delete an app if it was working before an Apple update. Secondly I like many do not have Moby or other custom faces and still have the issue so this should not be considered a permanent fix to an issue Apple created.

This happened to me too. 3 hrs to charge for less than 3 hours of life. Reset, repaired, deleted all apps. I even went to the Apple Store to try to get help. They told me it wasn’t a known issue so all they could do is sell me a new battery. It better be known now! They all but accused me of bringing in a failing device to fix for free. This is not customer service! I’ve been using Apple products for years, mac, iPad, watch, tv. How can I trust them again! So frustrating!

Same here. I have an older version 4ish. But I charged it (tapped the charge to full) to 100%. Put it on at 4 am to track my sleep. Woke up at 8 to it being 100% dead. I then was able to get it to charge to 100% again put the watch on and while sleeping for an hour it drained to 73%. In the 15 minutes I have been up it has gone from 73% down to 66%. Looks like I’m going to need to find a way to charge my watch every couple of hours all day long until Apple fixes the issue. Oh this all started the instant the update to 10.1 was downloaded to my watch last night.