iPhone 4S unable to turn off 3G?!

Is the 4S battery life getting better after turning off the 3G?

They are bringing it back with the next software update.

For me is better for the moment. I keep 3G off and only WIFI sometimes , the 4S has now 24 hours from the last full charge and still 71% battery.

L.E. Forgot to say that I have no more droped calls. I'm happy now with 3G Off/On back.

5.1b3 gives much improved battery life with 3G ON and even more with it OFF thanks to the 're-implemented' 3G toggle.

I am getting 70-80% remaining battery after 24 hours with it off and most other features like push and location Services etc on.

That's great news. What i'd really like to see, however, is some mechanism to set a toggle like "When connected to WIFI, disable Cellular Data & 3G"

Or at least a handy app to one-touch switch between the two. I'm on Fido, and even when on WIFI, anything I download counts against my data plan unless i manually go in and disable CD&3G.

Nice to see Apple's heard our cries and put the seperate option to disable 3G back in tho.

Dude, you dont need a toggle for what you are talking about. iPhone intelligently switches to WiFi when in a location with a known WiFi network with previously entered credentials.

I'm happy to see the 3G toggle possibly being added to iPhone 4S but what you suggest would be good too from a battery saving standpoint - did you know though, you can put your phone in flight mode and still put Wi Fi on? No messing, give it a go!

When will us common folk (non-developers) have access to the update with the 3G toggle? Will it be with the next software update?

Yes, in iOS 5.1, which is now at beta 3 as has been discussed (and a violation of their NDA if any are developers or beta testers) but no one can say when it will be released.

I see. Airplane Mode disables wifi too. Just turn wifi on next. Hmm.

To clarify, Airplane Mode does turn off wifi but you can turn it back on.

didnt try it first hey?

I've changed my profile picture to demonstrate.

The only hinderance is you lose GSM netowrk functionality such as phone calls and SMS (excluding iMessage).

A button, as TheRob2010 suggests, that disables data and maintains GSM & Wi Fi would be useful.

Yes, as I stated "you can put your phone in flight mode and still put Wi Fi on".

There is such a switch, it's called "Cellular Data". That disables all data (whether it be Edge or 3G) but keeps calls (GSM or 3G) and wifi. What rob2010 was asking for was some automatic thing that turned off data when on wifi, when at the moment it's a two-step process.

But I don't see the necessity of that. When on Wifi, doesn't the iPhone stop using cellular data anyway?

They are not complaining about turning off cellular data, they are complaining about not being able to turn off 3G. They still want cellular data, they just want it to come over 2G or Edge.