IOS 4.3.3 battery life has been significantly reduced

Ok From 100% yesterday my battery now stands at 25%. Only 16 hours since it was 100%, and hardly any phone usage. This is after a complete re-install of the iphones software yesterday.

This is actually a very slight improvement on what was happening before. But this may be explained by the fact that I also disabled "Ping", whatever that is. But its still not good enough for what I'm going to need.

Hmm yes. Anyone remember the huge media story, when the phone 4 was introduced. That "Apple screws up on the new Iphone. Users unable to connect". This media story of course, turned out to be a largely overstated attempt to knock Apple.

Now this issue about the battery life, is a much more serious one if you ask me. As a brand new user, I am on the verge of taking my Iphone back to Apple (luckily for me I payed the extra, and bought it directly from an Apple store so this shouldn't be a problem I hope). I clearly cannot use a phone that runs down so quickly within a week or so of its purchase. The phone is not working as advertised. I love the features of course, but as a long term mac user its just too disappointing to me for Apple to get things so wrong, in this kind of basic way.

My Main issue - why is there no response from Apple about this very serious issue on this forum? No "hang on folks, temporary glitch, its going to be fixed soon." Nothing.

Its beginning to look to me like the complaints by developers such as Adobe, that Apple have lost the plot with regard to their software development, and their respect for their users and developers, hold more weight than I would have expected.

I'm with you man, this is a software problem. Anyway, shouldn't an "upgrade" be ment to improve the performance of the thing? Instead of bringing all the hassle of a fail attempt to solve the problem by restoring.

My iphone 3GS is conking out after a 1/2 charge. It's also dropping calls very frequently. How can I go back about 3 revisions?

I am driving my IT manager nuts with this issue. Here's my story and current diagnosis:

1. Had an iPhone 4 running 4.3.2 that was running perfectly except that the sleep button got stuck

2. Took it in and Apple gave me a replacement

3. Set it up as a restored backup, upgraded to 4.3.3 and the battery drained way too fast

4. Have done a million combinations of full restore with no apps, no email accounts etc., trying to solve the problem

5. I even took the original replacement back in and got a second replacement

6. MobileMe and Yahoo accounts push with no consequence to the battery

7. Exchange contacts and calendar push with no consequence

8. Exchange email set to Push KILLS the battery with no other apps or accounts installed

9. If I set Exchange to Fetch, everything is fine

10. The frustrating thing is that this was never a problem with the old phone and now I have to wade through all of the "Well you know, Push can have an adverse impact on the battery" stuff.

This was never a problem before the new phone and 4.3.3. Setting Exchange email to Push is all of the sudden a problem. I am pretty sure my company uses Exchange 2003. Again, this worked just fine two weeks ago on my previous iPhone 4 running 4.3.2. I ran it for almost a year this way with ZERO problems.

rtcage -

My wife's iPhone only uses Yahoo mail. Her's is having the same battery drainage issue.

I have Yahoo, Gmail and an Exchange server email accounts. Mine has been fine since I reloaded on Saturday.

However, just today, I think that I might be "feeling" a little quicker battery drain. I'm not certain tho.

Apple needs to just acknowledge it so that it's out there. It's not a big deal - probably just a software bug.

It might not even be an Apple issue.

I wonder if we should all list the apps that we are using. Maybe something will jump out at us...

I have no apps installed right now. I have the following email accounts:

Yahoo - Fetch

MobileMe - Push

MabileMe shared calendar - Fetch

Exchange - Fetch

Everything is great until my Exchange email is syncing with Push. I can even push Exchange contacts and calendar, just not email.

It's not the Apps. It's a serious bug in the software. Apple needs to fix ASAP!

Ok. So I read all the posts on this issue after I updated my Iphone 3GS to IOS 4.3.3 and experienced the battery drain issue myself....from 100% charge at 9:30pm down to 27% by 6:30am the following morning, then draining to just 9% by 8:00am.

I carried out the hard reset (holding on/off switch and home button together until Apple logo appeared - ignoring the "slide to switch off" prompt") and this has worked for me.

Charged the battery to 100% and left overnight for similar time period 9:30pm to 6:30am, only dropped 6% overnight down to 94%.

I have been using the phone all day today (emails, facebook, twitter, texts, calls and listening to my music) and charge as of now 3:45pm is 50% 🙂

All settings are as I had before - email push on, notifications, 3G on, Location Services on etc etc.

It's got to be worth a try.....it's worked for me.

I've tried the hard reset and its not worked for me, I'm still charging the phone 3 times a day and I've turned off Ping too, I'm hoping that Apple might release another update to fix the problems before I have to resort to a complete restore which probably won't make much difference.

Have you tried doing the hard reset whilst the phone is on charge?

That's how I did it and it's worked ok for me.......got to be worth a shot before going the whole hog and doing a complete restore.....major pain in the wotsit !!!!!

This is crazy, I love apple but this is enough to really push me over edge. At least just admit there is a problem, I've restored and I'm losing 1% of battery every 2/3 mins. AppleCare insulted me by trying to suggest it is coincidence and my battery has failed. I'm an IT Manager who buys apple kit for schools, so please don't insult me! This needs fixing now.

Today someone at Apple told me the same thing - "we haven't heard of this problem, try turning off all your services and don't use 3G." Apparently with 3G on, the iphone 4 drains in about 5 or 6 hours. This is normal, he said.

I tried a hard restart, and a complete Restore, and all the other suggestions - and have seen no change in battery usage since I upgraded the phone to the latest IOS. Its impossible to get more than about 6 hours usage out of it.

Am going to see them tomorrow, but I have a feeling all thats going to happen is that they will tell me that something I am doing is causing the battery to drain so fast.

This is what is SO frustrating about Apple. Great gear - lots of kudos for not being a part of the Microsoft non-revolution. Trouble is - Apple seem oblivious almost to the point of arrogance to issues which THEY create almost every time they issue an update for the phone and pad.

How can they not be testing this stuff. How can we defend such disasters as the great '4 aerial ('you're holding it all wrong?!") debate against Apple-bashers. I wonder at the ability of the average Apple customer to put up with being treated this way.

Can someone tell me why we are willing to suffer such treatment??!!

I posted a week ago that I solved my problem by turning off "Push" in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calenders > Fetch New Data. This has been working for me for the past one week, until suddenly, my password for the exchange server expired. I think what happened was that when I went to check mail, my iPhone asked me to enter a new password. I cancelled the new password operation (because I was going to create a new password from my PC). Even though I exited the Mail application my iPhone battery started draining very quickly, as well as the phone felt warm to touch.

Next day, I updated my new password and since then my battery usage has been normal again.

This is very strange. On my iPhone 4 the problem is specific to Mail settings. All other features are enabled (bluetooth, location services, cellular data, etc.).