Series 7 Apple Watch. After 10.1 update my battery only lasts a few hours. I can literally watch the percentage go down. Rebooted the watch. Shut off background app refresh after advised by a friend. Still drains ridiculously fast. It’s essentially useless now. I’m out of ideas. Anyone else have this problem? This is crazy.
Just an update on this post. I found a solution that worked for me. It probably won’t be a solution for others as this seems to be a bit if a mystery on why this happened.
The short story: I deleted all those third party watch face apps. That fixed it.
The longer version: First thing I did after having the watch off all night was reset it as new. Took awhile because the battery drained really fast while it was repairing. Had to wait for it charge back up so it could finish. Honestly, it was a waste of time. The watch wouldn’t even charge. Stayed at between 15 and 17 percent.
In one of these threads here someone mentioned removing the watch face apps ( it was either Facer or Moby Face) so on my iPhone I deleted all of them (I had four) and waited. My watch was at 100% within a half hour. And it was cool to the touch. Not hot. It is now about 7 1/2 hours later and I’m down to 74%. Which is normal. I expect it to be better tomorrow because I won’t be fiddling with it as much. This also solved another problem (which I posted in another thread) The iPhone Watch App was misbehaving. All changes made to any of the faces, added faces or deleted faces wouldn’t sync over. I couldn’t even change faces from the app. This fixed that too.
Not sure why these app made this mess. Bad code. Not updated for watchOS 10. Who knows. But if you have these apps try deleting them.
edit: Seems to be what others are saying. Delete those apps. That should do it. But like I said. Might not work for everyone.
Apple on Tuesday released watchOS 10.1.1 which provides important bug fixes and addresses an issue that could cause the battery to drain more quickly for some users.
For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: Apple security releases - Apple Support
Apparently part of the problem is that a lot of things are going on in the background. I had to go through two complete charge cycles until the problem went away. After it charged for the second time to 100%, it worked OK. If that doesn’t work, you can try impairing and then pairing it as a new watch. If that fixes the problem then you can generally restore from a back up after that so that you don’t have to set it up again from scratch. I still think this is ridiculous from $2 trillion company whose main business is tech. It seems like they’re doing it on purpose to kill your battery so that you want to buy a new watch. Lithium I am batteries can only be charged through so many cycles. So every time they cause a problem like this, they are wearing down your watch battery. You can’t have the battery replaced for around $90, but it shouldn’t be because the tech company supporting their own product is the one ruining your battery. Apple has still never admit it this and that’s why I think there should be a class action suit against them for this. I could see if this happened once, but this is very common.
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
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.
Using the Feedback link is the only way to make Apple aware of these issues, since Apple does not follow these user to user discussions.
Feedback - Apple Watch - Apple
If your watch is still under warranty, getting in touch with the official Apple Support and asking them to diagnose your Apple Watch online would be one way to rule out a hardware issue.
Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support
For some users the battery life went back to normal after unpairing the watch, paring it again, and setting it up as a new watch, instead of restoring it from the latest backup.
Wait for a few more days and it should last you about 20-22 hours with 15% left. The watch is still reindexing at the moment.
I deleted all third party apps and battery drain is back to normal. Charging too.
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.
Thank you so much; I deleted most of my non-Apple apps, including MobyFace, and my watch is back to normal!
Thanks, removing the Mobyface app that fixed everything for me. I don't even use this app since the piece of junk Disney watchband that it came with fell apart years ago.
I deleted the MobyFace app as suggested and this seems to have fixed the issue for me. Battery no longer draining within 2 hours. Seems to be back to normal.
Removing MobyFace has worked for me too. My series 7 went from losing all charge in 90 minutes to only losing 8%.
I’m so glad I read the tip. I was convinced it was something I’d done!
Removed 3rd party apps and it fixed the battery drain issue. I have been testing one app at a time to see which one is the problem.
Hope this helps until Apple issues an watchOS update.
I had a similar issue. Removed all the 3rd party watch apps fixed it for me. Reinstalled only the ones I really need back on and continuing to use the watch fine.
Read my comment above… I reset my Watch four times in total. The fourth one Apple told me to reset but not use a back up. Still did not work. Call Apple back. They basically told me it was a software issue and there’s nothing they can do to fix it until an update rolls out. Then hopefully the update will fix the battery issue.
Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.
