If you've noticed your Apple Watch battery draining a bit faster after updating to watchOS 101, you're not alone apple has confirmed that there is a bug that affects battery life on several Apple Watch models, but a fix versions will be released

The news comes from an internal memo shared with Apple authorized service providers over the weekend (via MacRumors) Apparently a fix is in the works and will be distributed as part of a future software update Unfortunately, no details are known as to when the fix will be distributed or how widespread the problem is

Various complaints about battery drain have been received on the MacRumors forum, Apple Support Community, Reddit, and Twitter/X over the past few weeks Affected devices include the new Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, but older watches like the Apple Watch 4 also appear to be affected

What they all have in common is that the battery drains much faster than it should In many cases, they run out of 100% to completely in a matter of hours

This is not the first time watchOS 10 has caused battery issues recently Last month Apple confirmed that users could suffer from "increased power consumption" if the wrong combination of beta software was used

It seemed to affect users who have either an iPhone or an Apple Watch running on the beta software Essentially, if a device running watchOS 101 beta or iOS 171 beta was paired with an opposite device running public software, there was a risk of a significant reduction in battery life

According to MacRumors, the iOS 171 release notes claim to have fixed the issue of increased power consumption, particularly for watchOS 101 devices paired with iOS 17 Unfortunately, this issue has not actually been fixed

Hopefully this issue will be resolved in the next watchOS 1011 update, otherwise we may have to wait for watchOS 102, which does not appear until next month