iPhone 4s Battery Life?

iOS 5.0.1 has eliminated the lag 5.0 introduced to my iPod Touch 4th gen- but the battery life seems to have taken a hit. Light wifi use takes the battery down a great deal, whereas it would last for ages before! :'(

same thing with mcbook pro and lyin, from 10 hours to 2,5 hours and the funs are always working not. facking disgusting is this

Hi,

I try to disable these services : FaceTime, Itunes, Ping, Installing Apps, Deleting Apps (and Siri).

To do this you can go in settings -> general -> Restrictions and turn off the corresponding services.

With this procedure, the battery life is extended to almost 48 hours on my iphone 4S.

In my case I think the problem is in the FaceTime service or in Install /Delete Apps service.

I hope this is useful and sorry for my english.

I would make sure your apps are all closed out before standby at night.

How?

Adding to this I too am suffering c. 10-15%/hour battery loss. Had an iphone 4, 3GS and 3G and never experienced battery loss anywhere near this level. What are Apple doing to address this? Updated to 5.0.1 with no change in performance.

I returned mine after 10 days trying everything with no luck. I had a battery defect because it was so hot like the oven 😐 even with just 4 minutes watching you tube or talked on the phone or a couple of text mgs. I just went to the store and told them the story. They took it back. I went to my Carrier though not Apple Store because I knew there was something wrong with the phone. I didn't want to take the risk of calling Apple and waited for them to send me a certified phone. I want something in the wrapped box. I read some where in this forum, somebody also returned his phone successfully because of overheat too. So if you have some issues with your phone because of that, please return it. It will save you in the long run.

By the way, thanks for all of the tips contributed from the users in this forum, some of my friends's phones work great now.

I THINK THERE MIGHT BE A PROBLEM WITH THE BATTERY LIFE ON iOS 5. WE NEED TO REPORT THIS TO APPLE!

I guess Apple alredy know about that 😉 Since they are stating that some battery life issues are about to be fixed within the next updates!

Double tap the home button them prees the icon until it wiggles. Then click the minus sign to close it out.

I wish Apple would just add a few new options, this would help everyone and allow people to cater their devices to their own personal usage habits, while reducing unnecessary battery use:

(1) An option to the multitasker that allows us to hit a single button to terminate all apps (versus having to close them one by one). Yea, I know it doesn't that that long, but it would make life easier. Maybe add it next to the running application icons or maybe have an option to terminate all apps when the lock screen is brought up by user intervention (i.e. pressing the lock button).

(2) An option to shut off the app multi-tasker and have it run like before the the 4.x release that added multi-tasking support. Obviously some Apple system services would still be able to multi-task, this would only apply to AppStore downloaded apps.

(3) Maybe add an option to suspend all apps while at the lock screen and/or on standby? Once again, strictly the AppStore downloaded apps.

This ***** my iphone 3Gs still (after more than 1yr of isage)has better battery than this 4s. I updated to 5.0.1 and it is actually worse now. Also the volume goes up and down by itself. Work this out quick!!!!

Hi all,

I too am experiencing fairly lousy battery life with my 4s, on the order of 5-10% battery life used when idle. On 3g I dropped about 17% in 40 minutes. Apple's really disappointed me with this latest line of products (MBP as well).

I've also been noticing significant drainage while I'm charging the phone. I leave it on the charger overnight and when I wake up in the morning, I'm noticing I only have 92-95% battery left rather than 100. Has anyone else noticed this?

My 4s is not that bad, as i turned it on at 4.30am and been on facebook on internet and text, and its 16.55 now and i still have 69%

I did 5.0.1 update yesterday.

I cannot actually say if it's some kind of bandwagon or the real thing. I am not sure that my iphone 4s (black 16g shipped last week) has a battery issue, but I'd say there's something definitively wrong. And 5.0.1 didn't make things better.

What puzzles me is that the battery life seems to be rather random. I've been using it in a fairly similar way: auto-fetch email every 15 minutes, iCloud on, a few phonecalls a day, try to switch wi-fi off when I know there's none of my networks around. One day it lives up to more than 30 hours before hitting 20% while today it stayed plugged in all night and at 17:00 it was going below and I didn't even make a phone call. It's as if between 15 and 17 it ate up 30% of the battery just standing by.

But now the battery got stubborn and I am really having some trouble making it go down to zero. It must definitively be a calibration issue.