WatchOS 10.1 battery drain issue

It was happening to mine too and I know this doesn't address the root of the problem, but I turned my "Always on" display off and it stopped the draining. It's a. bandaid until Apple can address the actual problem

Hello

I have Apple Watch

series 8 and 9. On series 8, OS 10.1 did not drain the battery. It's the same

in the series 9 watch, it also has OS 10.1 and it's ok. However, I updated the

Apple Watch series 8 to OS 10.1.1. The battery began to drain quickly. TThe 10.1 system remains in the Apple Watch series 9.

The watch works for approximately 24 hours. Both watches charge to 100%. In

series 8 the battery health is 100%. The watch is half a year old. Series 9 is

only 2 weeks old, its condition is of course 100%. I'm waiting for the official

OS 10.2. Greetings from Poland.

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I have the 7 series and without too many notification, always on and a lot of other useless things I was having my battery up & running for two days straight. Charging it every other night before going to bed. Not to mention it was fully charging in under 2h.

For some time now.. since watch os 10 update or so.. it takes a whole lot longer to fully charge and battery goes from full to less than 10% in less than 24h... This is simply dumb and unacceptable.

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I have 2023 Ultra and the battery life and charge times were awesome. The watch would easily maintain its charge for over two and a half days and charging took less than an hour. After this 10.1.1 update, the battery drains to <30% in a day and takes a much longer time to charge (well over an hour).

I thought this update was to fix something that was draining batteries--obviously that was not an issue I had. But now I do.

Update to 10.1.1 has greatly worsened the problem, battery life reduced to half of its previous capability. I don't run Moby (or even know what that is) Continuing to test, but this new OS is not good.

I figured out how to change watch faces. Look at the Tips. You have to press and hold a face. Then you can swipe to change.

Apple, what’s wrong with you? Why would you make these changes and not tell anyone?

The ability to change Watch Faces without needing to long-press will return in a few weeks.

As for Siri, open the Watch App ⭢ Siri ⭢ Siri Responses, and change Spoken Responses to Always On or Control With Silent Mode.

I turned my 'always on' off too along with turning off most of the background refreshing except for phone and messaging and it looks as if that took care of the problem until 10.2 comes out. So, I traded my series 4 watch for a series 7 just to use it as a series 4 watch.

Curious how you see that. Is there something you can observe easily on either device that shows this? I'd like to keep an eye out for it myself because I could definitely see something like that causing battery drain. Constant pinging of the mothership, so to speak.

Try rebooting your iPhone, but NOT your Apple Watch, and see if that helps. If you need to reboot both, reboot and unlock your Watch before rebooting your iPhone.

I’ve been reporting this issue consistently with system diagnostics since the 10.1 / 17.1 testing period, and throughout 10.2/17.2 testing as well; I can tell you it still isn’t fixed in the latest versions. The insidious part is that everything may appear normal for several hours or even several days, then out of the blue my battery drops from 80% to 20% in a matter of hours (on an Ultra 2). This has happened even while in Sleep Mode (iPhone nearby, no Always-On Display).

So far, rebooting my iPhone after my Apple Watch has seemed to keep the crazy battery drain at bay.

In addition to posting here, anyone experiencing this issue needs to provide feedback either at apple.com/feedback, or using the Feedback Utility; otherwise it will keep getting ignored.

Here’s my feedback, sent to Apple few minutes go. No update solving the problem at te moment.

I have an Apple Watch series 9 stainless steel and unfortunately since day one I have serious problems with the battery, as many users report. I have been using Apple Watch since series 0, and this model is the first and only one that has this problem, which makes its use stressful and sometimes impossible. The battery completely drains within a few hours, and it is absolutely inconsistent: the duration sometimes seems correct, and other times I find myself wearing an off watch, without any use of it! This happens even during the same day. I have tried unpairing, resetting, setting up as a new watch without using a back up, pairing with another iPhone and even replaced my watch with a new one: no dice. It is the worst user experience ever. It is clearly a software problem that I cannot fix. And that Apple has not yet been able to solve. I regret my Series 8, which I gave to my sister and is perfect! Please do something about it

Having the same problem now as the 100s of people on this thread and all Apple can tell me is I owe them 100 bucks to replace the battery. Zero issues until the update, not the watch doesn’t last 1/2 the day. Thanks Apple.