Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

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.

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.

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!

Deleting the Moby app solved it for me. After confirming it was somewhat back to normal I went ahead and deleted the remaining 3party app just in case. AW Ultra was draining battery at a ridiculously fast rate and not charging at all after installing 10.1. Never had a problem with the watch before then.

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.

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.

I just wanted to say that removing the 3rd party apps from my watch seems to have helped a great deal, having restarted both my iPhone and watch and charging them fully I have full functionality ( minus the apps I removed) and having gone through a few cycles to make sure, I’m back to normal more or less. I might add, I’m a bit of an app hoarder, so although I removed many, I did keep some. I definitely removed Moby, Facer, and a great many others of different types from games to news to whatever, many of which I hardly ever used, if at all. So ,although the calamity is still fairly calamitous and the day and a half I spent dealing with the problem is time I won’t get back, at least it’s a problem that I can now wait for a software update to fix while still having a usable Apple Watch, for the most part, at least so far. But I think it’s now time to start getting the work around circulating amongst the numerous traumatised Apple Watch hapless victims of this odorous battery bug, A.K.A watch OS 10.1 so their pain can begin to diminish somehow, and so that hope can be restored in their relationship with what Apple likes to call their most personal product.( bloody marketing departments and their hyperbole!) But alas, I digress, my original intention was just to state that this fix does appear to actually work ( it did for me) but also & perhaps more importantly, to just say a massive thanks to whomever figured this out and then posted their solution to one of the most egregiously awful bug fix own goals perpetrated by Apple in the history of the device to date. Kudos to you and many thanks for sharing your experience with the community, I think it’s really going to do a lot of good for those of us lucky enough to stumble upon it.

HOLY SNAP!

I legitimately was going through the exact same thing that a lot of the people on this thread are talking about! My battery would die legitimately in minutes. Earlier today I read on this very thread somebody talking about the MobyFace app and that removing it immediately stopped that issue.

I just removed the Moby app and a bunch of other apps that I wasn’t using on the watch and boom! I’m still at 100%! Honestly, just the fact that I’ll be able to go to 100 was enormously helpful!

If you guys are having the same issue, most of us are having I’m telling you remove any non-native apps, including the MobyFace app and boom!

Ok everyone, I have made several posts with my anguish of this 10.1 issue. Many have indicated that removing an App called MobyFace seems to solve this for this. I honestly didn’t see this app on my watch and therefore didn’t think it applied to me. Only when I used the watch app on my phone and checked to see which apps I had installed did I see MobyFace. So I remove this from the phone and also removed almost all of my 3rd party apps like Amazon, bank apps, audible etc.

Since then I charged successfully to 100% and the battery charge is still 100% two hours later.

The lesson here is yes MobyFace or some other 3rd party app seems to conflicting with this 10.1 update. But this is Apple’s responsibility to fix this permanently since all these apps were working fine before the update. Customers cannot be spending hours resetting their devices, troubleshooting and removing apps.

Ultimately I want all my apps back but not sure which one caused the conflict so a real solution is needed by Apple.

Attached is the battery image showing before and after I removed apps. Please look in your phone watch app if you indeed have MobyFace and it you do then remove it. If you don’t then continue to remove other 3rd party apps.

Ok so today was my testing day and so far so good. I have the Ultra 1 and after the 10.1 update it was not charging past 70% and was dying within minutes. I spoke with customer service and they gave me the old run around and said they would escalate my case and call me the next day. They called me 3 hours late or our scheduled appointment and repaired nothing. I did find a post stating to remove moby fox watch app. I removed that and my watch has been operating fine. Full day of use and it’s only st 76%. Hopefully this work around keeps it fixed until the next update.

After reading through multiple forums, the MobyFace app caused my watch to take 2 days to charge and would drain in about an hour. Removed the MobyFace app and the watched fully charged overnight. You could tell by the feel of it, it didn’t take all night to charge, it was cool to the touch.

JP_in_NC wrote:

The thing that bothers me with all of the advice to remove 3rd party apps as that is the problem...seems like most, if not all of us didn't have this problem UNTIL the update to 10.1. Thus, how can the issue be the 3rd party apps? Clearly something changed in 10.1 from 10.0 that caused this excess battery drain. To blame the 3rd party apps seems like a copout.

The most common thing I'm seeing is the MobyFace app. My guess would be that the developer, who, like everyone else, had access to the beta version of watchOS 10, didn't bother to ensure that their app was updated. Apple can't force a developer to do that. Smaller and/or less reputable developers sometimes can't or won't keep up.

I have numerous third-party apps on my Watch 7 which has a maximum battery capacity of 85% so, not as young as it used to be. I have no difficulties. I get about 24 hours with 10-15% left, sometimes more. The difference may be that the third-party apps I have are properly written for watchOS 10.

I suggest you delete all of your third-party apps. Then, add them back a couple at a time each day. That way, when your battery life starts draining rapidly, you'll be able to to tell which one is the problem.

Thanks for the tip. I removed my Moby Face app yesterday. I then turn my watch off for 15 seconds and then put it back on. It is no longer getting overheated while charging and is holding a charge now. I ended up deleting a few other 3rd party apps that I realized I had but don’t use my watch for so it was just wasting storage. My watch 100% at 1:53pm yesterday and was 66% when I went to bed around 10:30pm. So he definitely is better. Again thanks for the tip.

Ravenlove0 wrote:

I see that people are saying to delete 3rd party apps to make it work. That doesn’t seem like a good fix. We should be able to use that apps we want. Hopefully 10.2 will come out and fix the problem soon.

A number of people have discovered that a particular 3rd party app is the source of their problem. Removing it seems to solve it. That doesn't mean that they can't use any 3rd party apps, just not that one until it gets updated. So, even if you don't have MobyFace installed, it's worth removing all of the third-party apps and seeing if your battery life goes back to normal. If it doesn't, start adding the third-party apps back a couple at a time. If the battery life suddenly goes haywire again, you'll know it was one of the most recently added apps and you can remove only those.

Other people report that they don't have third-party apps and are still having issues. That highlights something important: the same symptoms don't always have the same cause.

In my case there was an app stuck while installing (a bus tickets app). It never finished (I had used it with my phone few weeks ago). I stopped the installation (from the Watch app, section “Available apps”) and the battery drain issue got solved.