Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

Klg908 wrote:

My battery is dying in 3hrs with this update I’m extremely frustrated. Apple needs to fix this asap!

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My Series 6 went from lasting all day, to losing 1% per minute when undocked (this is how it felt, I didn't actually time it). It also wouldn't charge when docked, stuck at whatever percent it was at. If I undocked it and it lost a percent, and I docked it again, it would get stuck there. Doing a force restart allowed it to charge again to 100%. However, it was still losing 1% per minute when undocked.

I tried force restart (holding both buttons). Didn't work.

I deleted Moby Face from both watch and phone, then tried force restart again. Didn't work.

I also force restarted my phone. Didn't work.

I erased all content and settings from the apple watch, re-paired to phone, and restored from backup. Didn't work.

I gave up for 2 days and just left it charging the whole time, with it was stuck at 100% the whole time.

Today, I looked at it, and thought, let me force restart it again. Now, it appears to be working. It's been 1 hour and has lost 2% so far, which is normal for it (It's a series 6 at 83% health).

I have no idea what in this chain of things I did fixed it, or if it will stay fixed. It's only been an hour and I'm writing this post.

Based on what someone else said, they also had to erase and pair the watch, and then force restart it after to get it working again.

I didn't delete any other 3rd party apps, and I don't know if Moby Face was the actual culprit since deleting it didn't seem to do anything. But so many people are complaining about it, maybe it somehow weirdly played a part.

I would suggest trying the following based on no scientific reasoning:

1. Delete the Moby Face App from both the watch and phone.
2. Erase All Content and Settings form the Watch's reset menu.
3. Pair to iPhone again and restore from backup.
4. Force Restart the Apple Watch after it's done being set up.

Hope this helps. Sorry if it doesn't. Everyone seems to have such different solutions, making this issue difficult to troubleshoot.

Yeah same issues here.

Prior to update watch was fine. I’d get nearly a day and a half with my usage.

updated Tuesday night and went to sleep with the watch on at 75% work up it was flat.

charged it up again and at 7:30 it was at 91%, put it on and went about my normal day. By 12:30 it was flat again. No workouts, maybe looked at it 10 times…

watch is currently useless.

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.

Never happened before this is my third Apple Watch and never had this problem before

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.

Since the last update and 24 hours, my battery usage returned to normal. I have not reinstalled MobyFace to see if it returns or not but my watch performance is normal again

Well last night there was a 10.2 update and all is well. Fully charged. No hot battery this am. Will see how long it lasts! Check you updates and download it.

Same thing has been happening with me. Insane how at like 5 pm my watch is telling me it’s about to die. Glad I’m not alone, but man it’s frustrating. They need to fix it asap

Same problem. Completely drained in 4 hours where previously I was getting 35 - 40 hours. Tech support was no help. Just bought a Garmin Fenix. Done with Apple.

My watch is draining super fast again. Is there a fix?!?!?

I just updated my watch to 10.2 and I’m watching my watch battery drop WHILE ON THE CHARGER. Someone please tell me Apple has given any useful info or said they are working on this?

What I don’t get is why Apple hasn’t done anything about this. There have been updates. So frustrating.

Same for me. I now have to charge it 2x per day instead of once every 2 days. No new apps, just th ex upgrade. If it’s not fixed in the next 2 weeks i will go back to Fitbit.

Any updates to the battery drain issue? Watch is useless now. No way am I buying a new one. Worked fine until this update.