Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

I have a series 7 and series 8- both watch batteries drained to nothing in in 2-3 hours after I downloaded the 10.1 update. But then I deleted some stuff I never use, turned them off and the problem was solved. Now a get well over a day in power before recharging. I too turn off the always on feature- it's a waste of power since most of the time you are not staring at your watch!

Same for me and even my Apple watch 6 is sitting ideal in 43% and then it rolls back all the way to 23% while charging, i have never seen something like this before, let me know if you found any solution. Appreciate it

Adding to the pile: 10.1.1 has ruined my series 5.

I used to be able to go around 30-36 hours with my watch, now I barely get 12. No third party apps on my watch at all.

Doesn't sit well that a lot of you folks are having the same issues on the series 7/8/9 and the Ultra.

Why? This situation was planned and part of a bigger grand architecture. THIS is their best scenario to start over with a future of AR and no more iPhone. There are other watches, such as Garmin, that can bridge users to the next generation of Apple devices (theoretically).

Yep, I have a lot of time on my hands, so I went back, one by one, and started deleting all recent apps. Waited a day in between each one, to see what would happen over time.

MOBYFACE did it. Instead of draining my battery to 25% by noon same day, I had 86% left after a full day, AFTER removing MOBYFACE.

All is well. Even restored all dwnloaded apps EXCEPT MOBYFACE, and it's back to normal.

Re-Installed it, HUGE DRAIN again.

It's a third party app so not everyone has it.

While it definitely looks like some folks are getting relief by removing it, it's definitely not the underlying issue with the 10.X updates.

I removed Paprika 3 (a recipe app) and Spotify (I never use) from my watch yesterday after reading this thread. My watch died at around 8.5 hours and took over 4 hours on the charger to turn back on after dying last night. After that time, it was only at 16% battery and then seemingly charged normally overnight.

This morning I took it off the charger at 7am and it is now at 76% battery as of writing this. I have not directly used it for anything today except passive time checking.

While I can appreciate that these issues point to a bad battery, none of this was happening until the 10.X updates rolled out. My watch was working, charging and holding a charge perfectly fine until then.

Do anyone of you folks out there experience shutdowns whilst using Apple workout app? When my watch restarts it shows 10% until it goes back on charger resets itself and shows previous amount of battery. Mmmh

I’ve had this issue where my watch battery health dropped from 100% to 91%, and it wasn’t charging properly; instead, it was getting hot. I noticed that charging my watch using my Mac significantly improved the situation. It charged fully and lasted for 5 hours. I plan to try uninstalling all third-party apps, although I don’t have MobyFace, so I can only hope for the best.

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My iWatch 7 is doing this now too, after the update.

100% in the morning, dead in 3 hours.

I should not have to delete third-party apps because Apple's latest update is broken!

This reminds me of their Podcast app which, after an update, overheated the iPhone and drained the battery in no time flat.

I updated my watch to the latest OS a couple of days ago. This morning, after being on the charger all night, it was completely dead, very warm, and it will not charge again so there is no way to get in contact with it to do anything like removing apps. I do not have the Mobyface app so that´s not it. This is an issue with the latest update from Apple and now I am wondering how I will be able to fix it - will just have to take it into a store I guess.

If you take it to Apple they will try to charge you the price of a new watch, they aren’t able to repair the watches as they can’t open them up.

can I ask how your charging it? If by the mains, can I suggest using your MacBook as before I removed 3rd party apps this improved the charging a bit. Sounds daft but worth a try instead of asking the 80s used car salesman.

I have the same issue. I have a S6 and it was working perfectly fine until the IOS 10 update and now it will drain the battery in under an hour. the watch doesnt get hot at all and he battery health is 82%.

I have same issue here, awful. I’m guessing apple want us to upgrade are watches because they’re not selling them fast enough. This happened with the iPhone 12, openly slowed it down to make people upgrade. My watch lost 14% in 40 mins

For some users it got better after removing the widgets on the Apple Watch, others unpaired and paired the watch again.

I did both on my Apple Watch 5 and the battery life got much better than after the update.

Hopefully the fixed that in watchOS 10.2

My ultra is 7 months old. You're telling me I need the battery replaced? Yeah no. This is a update issue apple needs to addressed ASAP. If they keep this practice up I will explore other devices outside apple on out. Sounds like nobody is beta testing.