Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

I have a apple watch 7 and removed all watch face third party apps from my watch and the battery draining stopped. My watch is holding its battery power for almost 2 days now. I charged it Saturday at 23:02 and we are now Monday evening. So removing third party apps works. I’m guessing those third party’s need to upgrade their apps to solve the drainage.

Try a couple of charge cycles and if that doesn’t work, then try impairing and then pairing the watch again as a new watch. There’s a good chance that will help. There are a lot of little things going on in the background after an update, so that’s why you see the severe battery drain Which can take a couple of charge cycles until all extra background processes stop.

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.

Watch IOS 10.1 did drain my watch (series 5 44mm) battery faster and extra fast when the timer was being used but the update 10.2 seems to have fixed the battery drain issue. While trying to trouble shoot 10.1 battery drain, I also turned off the photo update (as a previous post suggested) and deleted several apps that I no longer use. So maybe a combination of 10.2 update and the removal of some apps fixed my battery drain.

On a side note - the pre-set times in the timer app (10.x) are now a lot harder to read without using my reading glasses. Please apple bring back the larger numbers on the preset times.

You will need to factory reset the Watch. Before you do that, uninstall all 3rd party apps. All of them. Apparently certain 3rd party apps caused a conflict in the update. After the watch goes through factory reset, it should be able to hold a battery charge the way it used to prior to the software update.

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.

Have you tried deleting all 3rd party apps from the phone? That worked on my series 7. For me it seems the Moby face app was the issue.

It's not the battery folks; even people with Series 9/Ultra have reported the same thing in this very thread. Do NOT reply on Apple fixing this by giving them more money to replace your battery. This is absolutely software based, it's definitely a bug and Apple needs to get off their collective as*es and fix it.

That aside....my watch has been working ok since it died completely the other day.

I posted the other day that my watch died and took at over 4 hours on a charger to turn back on and was only at 16% when it came back on. I charged it overnight and it's now been lasting all day again.

It would not charge on my charger but did on my wifes. Her AC Adapter is lower amp and I have read in other threads that when a watch won't charge, it needs to be a lower amp AC Adapter.

If you have a lower amp charger, try that if your watch is dead, or try letting your watch die completely and charge it using a slower charger. Obviously no guarantees it will work, but maybe letting the watch discharge completely is blowing out the issue?

What I found is that in Settings, under Display & Brightness, the 'Always On' setting has been set to 'On'. If you turn that 'Off' and make sure that the 'Wake on Wrist Raise' and 'Wake on Crown Up' are set on, this should help. No need for the display to not turn off when you aren't looking at it (IMO).

I had a heck of a lot of weird problems with my 8 even before 10.1. The only way I found to clean it all up was to dump everything on it and do a fresh restart up an set it up as a new watch. It has performed flawlessly. I assume that something in my iPhone 14plus was screwed up and kept putting something bad in it..

Short story

2 watches series 7 & 9

Both updated to 10.1

Both dying around 3 hours from 100%

Tried restore. Didn’t help

Spoke with Apple technician via phone recommended deleting all third party apps.

Success 2% drain in 45 minutes.

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!!

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%!