Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

Hello Apple! There are 80,000 views on this post and over 650 replies. My Apple Watch suddenly goes to 0% when I run for thirty minutes in the morning. It is fully charged when I put it on to run. This started happening after the most recent update to OS 10.2. Please fix!

Try disabling one of the following:

Watch>Settings>Display & brightness > always on>turn off ALL complication updates under “Always on”

OR

Turn off the always on display (also disables complication updates while always on)

Watch>Settings>Display & brightness

it seems like Apple now allows complications to update on the always on display at a greater frequency, which has been chewing up battery life.

Let me know if this works for you.

Heather.

i’m pretty confident that it’s a complication update frequency issue (Both apple and 3rd party).

Can you disable your always on display and let me know if you see any improvements?

If that works for you, and you prefer to have the always on display enabled, you can simple disable the always-on complication updates under the same settings menu.

Mine went from lasting 8 hours to 14+ (Series 5 @ 80% battery health).

I’d love to hear if it works for anyone else, because it’d be an easy fix for apple.

Thanks Heather.

Have you tried turning off the “always on” display? I tried multiple watch resets (even an iPhone reset) trying to troubleshoot. The ONLY thing that fixed it for me was turning it off. There’s some bug in the “always on” function (complications or otherwise) that’s causing this.

nmyers wrote:

I will no longer purchase Apple watches. It is nearly useless now with the 4-5 hour battery life.

You should always buy the tool that best meets your needs. No one here has any vested interest in your choice.

Meanwhile, I'll continue to enjoy my Watch 6 with its aging battery that gets 24 hours (most of the time) between charges even while using watchOS 10.

I have an apple watch SE and since this update i literally can not keep my watch charged AT ALL. within 2 hours 100% watch is completely dead. Has anyone found any tricks to help this? I have turned off my wifi and any other feature i don’t just have to have and it’s not helping.

I can no longer track a complete surf session on my watch. If it lasts more than 2 hours, the battery dies and I can't even end my workout. This has been happening since the 10.1 update and all subsequent updates have not resolved the issue. I have a Series 8 and the warranty coverage expired literally days before this issue began. I never had a problem in the past and have records of a number of 4+ hour workouts recorded using the same app. It now won't last more than 2 hours. Has anyone else found any kind of solution for this? My watch is only a few months past its 1 year anniversary. This seems like an unreasonably short life span for an expensive product.

dominickfromNYC wrote:

Has anyone had any improvements on this?? I haven’t, and I’m so annoyed by this.. I wrote a complaint to Apple and I don’t know what to do next. Any advice would be welcomed.

There have been a number of suggestions made in the 47 pages of this thread. One of them involves removing an app called Moby Face. I suggest you start at the beginning an work your way through.

Apple Watch drains fast when playing golf after 10.1 update. It lasts 14 hours or so when I don’t play golf. When I play golf it no longer makes it thru a 4 hour round. Is there an app that is draining the battery due to the motion of a golf swing that I could turn off?

My watch has now been like this for two days, it’s horrible! And it bothers me that when it’s charging it’s so hot. When a device over heats it’s never a good sign. My watch no longer aids the functions of my everyday life.

After the update, my watch was draining SUPER FAST and now I took it off the charger to put in and it’s dead and will NOT charge. It just gives me the charging station symbol and won’t charge or turn on. What do I need to do?

I purchased a new Apple Watch in the spring of two 2023 and like it very much. However, recently after the latest upgrade in the operating system, the battery drains very quickly. Last night I charged it at 11 PM took it off and by 9 AM This morning the battery had declined from 100% down to 15% with no activity on my part. Trying to figure out what the problem is.

It’s a set up to make us purchase new products. Sometimes mine won’t charge or when it does it charges from completely dead to 100% in 30 minutes it’s ridiculous. I watched my watch go from 98% to 17% in 10 minutes. Guess I’ll try an android now.

Each time a new version is installed is normal to experience this kind of behaviors as part of a rebuild of caches. I am sure will go back to normal values after a couple of days.

Really fast battery drain with iPhone 15 pro with 17.1 and watch 10.1