A new watchOS update is on the way to fix Apple Watch battery drain issues
If you’ve been experiencing poor battery life on your Apple Watch 9 or an older model since the rollout of watchOS 10.1, know that help is on the way β and Apple is preparing a fix in an upcoming software update.
An internal Apple memo, sent to Apple Authorized Service Providers and seen by MacRumors, says a battery drain fix is ββcoming “soon.” However, the memo doesn’t go into further detail, so that’s all we can do.
There’s no mention of what exactly is behind the problem, how many people have been affected by it, or what the software patch will do to improve the situation β but at least something is being done about it now.
You don’t have to look far to find complaints about the battery drain problem: just take a look Reddit or for example the official Apple Support Forum. The issue appears to affect multiple models, including the Apple Watch Ultra 2 running watchOS 10.1.
Software errors
Of course, watchOS 10.1 was intended to fix bugs rather than introduce new ones. It also enabled the new Double Tap feature that you can use on this year’s Apple Watch models, the Apple Watch 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2.
Bugs are fairly common with these types of updates, and it’s rare to see an update come out that doesn’t cause any issues at all, but it’s still disappointing that the user experience has deteriorated so significantly for what appears to be a substantial one. number of people.
How many people are seeing this is difficult to judge, but looking at the posts we linked to above, these do not appear to be isolated cases. Our Apple Watch 9 review was written using watchOS 10, so it doesn’t include any reference to the battery issue.
It’s not just watch updates that are causing Apple problems. We’re still waiting for a fix for the bug that causes some iPhones to mysteriously shut down overnight, and which may have been introduced with the release of iOS 17.0.3.