I noticed the battery drain from that update. But in a week, it got better on its own for some reason. Updating anyhow.
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Apple Releases watchOS 10.1.1 With Fix for Apple Watch Battery Drain Bug
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It's for the sake of consistency.
Now Apple Watch face is treated like a lock screen in iPhone. You need to press-hold to change the iPhone lock screen, thus the same in Apple Watch.
But yeah, please bring back swiping between faces.
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Watch S6 here. Batt was straight to zero post charging and now update has it back to running rock solid all afternoon only used 15%. So seems like a win. Also figure will all the reindexing etc post-updates, I hope for even better performance tomorrow. Don’t stop believing.
My S6 has had great battery life with watchOS 10, getting about 35-40 hours of use on a charge. The battery life issues seem very random.
Not sure why so many people have decided to post on here who don't have the problem, but nevermind.
I can confirm that, for me at least, this update has fixed the issue.
I have last year's Apple Watch Ultra and I was getting between 1.5 to 2 days battery life, which was the main reason why I bought the watch.
After the update to 10.1, I instantly went from this to having to charge the watch three times a day, so a six times increase in charging!
Not only that, but the charging itself was pausing without warning as the battery was overheating - which is something that had also never happened before.
This made the watch completely impractical to use and it happened from the moment I updated on the 26th of October until the release of 10.1.1
I actually stopped using the watch, because I was concerned about damaging my battery as I had looked after it and prior to 10.1, it was showing 100% battery health.
So for those who had been affected by this, it was a very serious bug and I'm glad to see the back of it.
I have had Apple products (not as long as some of you) but since the iPhone 3G - the second iPhone released.
I have also had Apple watches of four different flavours since the series 4 (not to mention iPads).
Until this point, I have always updated the software on every device upon release.
This experience has really shaken my faith on that though and I will think twice about upgrading immediately in the future – which of course puts my devices at risk.
In summary, this was a very poor release from Apple which seems to have affected a lot of people (judging by Apple's decision to release an internal memo on the subject) and I expect better – thankfully it doesn't seem to be a problem for me anymore and hopefully many others will experience the same with 10.1.1
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I've added two photos to the post – these are screenshots from my Apple Watch battery section.
The one that shows 5% illustrates the slow discharge of my battery on watchOS 10, followed by the rapid decline immediately upon update to watchOS 10.1.
The one at 93% shows the problem appearing to be fixed after the update to 10.1.1, as you will see the discharge has slowed significantly.
I can confirm that, for me at least, this update has fixed the issue.
I have last year's Apple Watch Ultra and I was getting between 1.5 to 2 days battery life, which was the main reason why I bought the watch.
After the update to 10.1, I instantly went from this to having to charge the watch three times a day, so a six times increase in charging!
Not only that, but the charging itself was pausing without warning as the battery was overheating - which is something that had also never happened before.
This made the watch completely impractical to use and it happened from the moment I updated on the 26th of October until the release of 10.1.1
I actually stopped using the watch, because I was concerned about damaging my battery as I had looked after it and prior to 10.1, it was showing 100% battery health.
So for those who had been affected by this, it was a very serious bug and I'm glad to see the back of it.
I have had Apple products (not as long as some of you) but since the iPhone 3G - the second iPhone released.
I have also had Apple watches of four different flavours since the series 4 (not to mention iPads).
Until this point, I have always updated the software on every device upon release.
This experience has really shaken my faith on that though and I will think twice about upgrading immediately in the future – which of course puts my devices at risk.
In summary, this was a very poor release from Apple which seems to have affected a lot of people (judging by Apple's decision to release an internal memo on the subject) and I expect better – thankfully it doesn't seem to be a problem for me anymore and hopefully many others will experience the same with 10.1.1
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EDIT:
I've added two photos to the post – these are screenshots from my Apple Watch battery section.
The one that shows 5% illustrates the slow discharge of my battery on watchOS 10, followed by the rapid decline immediately upon update to watchOS 10.1.
The one at 93% shows the problem appearing to be fixed after the update to 10.1.1, as you will see the discharge has slowed significantly.
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The craziest thing happened tonight. Totally unexpected. My AW Ultra 2 applied the automatic update over night (while being on the charger) and in the morning I just put the updated (w. 10.1.1) watch back on my wrist. Never worked on any of my previous Apple Watches (even though the button was always set to auto update).
I don't think they would, mainly because other cheap knockoffs smartwatches use swiping gesture to change faces. I suspect they already knew this and differentiate for the sake of their "image".
The number one complaint I've heard from Apple Watch owners I know is that they accidentally change faces and don't understand why. I suspect that is the main reason for the change.
With WatchOS 10.0.2 my battery life (on my Ultra 2) was way better that it is since WatchOS 10.1 and even 10.1.1. With 10.0.2 my battery staid for a long time on 100%.
I hope it fixes some of the weather issues, where it is blank and also an issue when the timer is running that is blank too on some watch faces. At least happening with v1 and v2 of Apple Ultra watches.
The percentage shown is all down to calibration. If it stayed at 100% for a long time before dropping, then the scale was poorly calibrated. The only true measurement of battery life is actually seeing how long it lasts on a charge.
If its actually a fix, I suspect the battery drain issue started with 10.0 but wasn't acknowledged until 10.1. Apple is a bit nervous about battery issues and also doesn't want to say they have an issue for an extended period of time either.
I've had a lot of issues on my S6 since I upgraded.
Yeah. Never happened to me but know plenty that do. My thing is tapping on complications accidentally somehow. Hope this update fixes update fixes the screen colour bug / feature when you swipe down.