Apple Watch battery drains super fast after 10.1 update.

Note, this happened with 10.3!

So frustrated with this unacceptable “update” that has rendered my watch mostly useless. Very poor decision to ship this. Why hasn’t anything been done for months? Probably greed.

My Apple Watch runs out of power in a. Matter of hours since the last update. What can be done about this!

Getting this as well when I updated watch series 7 to os 10.1, had watch on charge and was reported watch was at 8% battery life, I usually have over a full days use of the watch before it notifies me that it needs charging.

Monitored the battery percentage and noticed while typing at my PC with watch on my wrist, the battery was draining 1% just over 1 minute, so would have to charge the watch within 2 hours.

Never had this problem before 10.1 so hope Apple have a quick fix

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..

i recently traded in my series 6 for series 9 due to this battery drainage/poor charging problem caused by watchOS 10.1. At the time I thought it was a hardware issue but since it happened again to my new series 9.

Apple support provided no help and acted like no one has mentioned this issue.

The only thing I have ever done that corrected any problem with my watch has been to not restore from the phone but to restore the watchOS as a new watch.. Probably just a weird kink but seems to work.

I tried restoring both from scratch and from backup.. a few times today actually… and didn’t work for me, unfortunately.

I wish there were a way to uninstall the software upgrade. I looked online but it seems Apple removed the option?

What I’m doing is I’m erasing and resetting my entire watch. And I’m using a back up from prior to the new update. That’s running an older watchOS. I’ll see if that works. I have an Apple Watch Series 6.

Yup same issue here and the weird thing was it drained while on the charger right before my eyes!!! Doesn’t charge more than 15%. The watch is a series 9 brand new! The Apple Store took it for service and to restore the previous software. I’ll post once it comes back

I have the same issue with mine after the update to 10.1 on my Ultra 2. Apple totally bricked my watch. It’s totally useless, it is now an Ultra useless. I’ve tried everything resetting it to factory settings setting it up from scratch. I turned off Wi-Fi turned off Bluetooth and the battery still drained. Whatever they’re paying their software engineers. It’s too much. I used to be able to go over three days on one charge now I can’t even go over three hours.

Yes, updated at 10.1 on my first generation Apple Watch Ultra and my battery goes from 100% to 40% and one hour. And now when I put it on the charger it won’t charge past 40% and it’s hot. This is a total problem, the 10.1 update Totally made my Watch useless. I hope there’s a fix soon.

Apple tried telling me the issues my background apps killing the battery and I repeated multiple times saying everything worked fine and lasted two days with one charge until I did the watchOS 10.1 update and now watch won’t last more then few hrs

I made the technology reporter at Wall Street Journal (Joanna Stern) aware, and she responded. Linked her to some other info about it. Maybe, if we're lucky, she'll pursue this, make some noise, and Apple will fix it.

In other news ... I unpaired my watch. I noticed after doing so it was charging rather quickly. Now that I've reconnected it to my phone, it's slow again.

Same here. It was fully charged when the update finished. Within a few hours it was drained. It’s been on the charger for 3 hours and still only at 45%. I’ve rebooted and restored and same thing. It’s very warm and not charging. 10.1 broke my Apple Watch.