Like many of the other folks in this forum -- I have found since updating my WatchOS to 10.0.1, that the battery drain is rapid. I used to get two days out of my Watch and now after eight hours of use I am at 20% with a low battery warning.
What gives? Is there a fix on the horizon?
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Apple Watch Series 8
me too. 10% in 10 minutes. literally.
I was spectacle, but several sources suggested unpairing and repairing. claim it so Location bug in the new Widgets thing that keeps banging away.
Anyway, it did seem to fix it for me 10% in 3 hours. as good, or better, than before.
THANK YOU! I did take your advice and unpaired and repaired my watch to my phone, but I am not sure it really made much of a difference. In one hour I am down 10% of my battery life. It is a bit of a bummer, since before the update my watch was good for the day, probably two days...now it barely survives my work day.
I may try to do this again and see if I get better results.
No, there is no fix on the horizon. These reports surface after every single update, especially major ones like watchOS 10 and almost always resolve themselves in a few days. On MacBooks you get a notification that states “Your Mac is being optimized. Battery Life and Performance may be temporarily affected.” So it with watchOS, iOS, iPadOS.
THANK YOU! I appreciate your insight. I am quick to accept updates to my Apple products and I updated to WatchOS 10 when it became available last month.
Fingers crossed that the techs at Apple are paying attention and get us back on track sooner than later.
There is a good chance the “fix” will just need a bit of patience. The software update you watched being loaded is only half the job. After your device is rebooted and you can use it again there are many other tasks running unseen to clean up the old system files and reminded the storage. This is all extra work and extra battery load until it completes.
Seems to be related to the weather application on my watch series 4, I set the location to the exact city instead of current city, and so far it seems to have helped. Apparently there is a bug that causes the location search to loop which drains the battery.
THANK YOU! That's a good way to think about it. I am as current as can be 10.0.1 as of this week, I believe. I will just be patient and hope this eventually resolves itself.
THANK YOU! I took your advice and set it to my city. Weird that it was set to two cities that I have not even visited recently. Fingers crossed.
Battery drain after updating to WatchOS 10
