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.
Series 8 watch. Battery died within a few hours after 10.1.1 update and continued to die for six days. Did all the troubleshooting listed here (no Mobyface on my watch, unpaired/paired, turned off background updates, etc). Finally did the chat thing with Apple and they ran the analytics and said "software appears OK". Scheduled a call. But before the call (this am) and just after the support chat the battery came back and now seems to be ok (60% after 14 hours). I told the Apple call support person of my troubles but not sure if that goes anywhere. Also sent to Apple Feedback. The same thing happened with the 10.1 update but battery drain was gone after three days. Was it the "analytics" test that fixed it? Or just a coincidence? Really a big fail for Apple. They should at least make this problem clear to customers and save us all a lot of trouble (yes, I've told them).
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!
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 you by any chance have a third-party watch face app? I read another blog that these apps are causing the drain because they have not updated to the latest OS version requirements.
I did this: reset it and set it up as new.
Have you tried deleting all 3rd party apps from the phone? That worked on my series 7 and a series 8. For me it seems the Moby face app was the issue.
So, next morning. After deleting all 3rd party apps, battery life is even better than before.
Based on what I have read so far, it is indeed very likely that MobyFace was the culprit for me too.
Hi! I’ve disinstalled all the 3rd parties apps and it seems it’s working: from 8am up to 10:35 am, only 2% loss.
Taking off Mobyface has returned my battery life to normal.
Followed the advice on this post and deleted all of the 3rd party apps I do not use regularly and it seems to have fixed the issue. Before, my watch would not charge well and it drained quickly.
uninstalled the MobyFace app and worked again perfectly. They’re already working on a fix 💪🏻💪🏻
MobyFace delete fixed my quick discharge and slow to charge problem
thank you Zenguin
I had the same problem on my Series 5 watch, but a forced restart seems to have resolved it. Just press and hold the crown and side buttons until you see the Apple logo.
Reporting in that the removal of Moby face and a few other unnecessary apps has put things back on track for me on both my s7 and s5.
still hope we get a proper patch soon.
Update: Deleted the Moby app and it stopped draining.
Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.
