Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

Same story here. First iphone (been waiting for one that has coverage in my area), stood in line to get it at 8 am launch day. Battery life was horrific at first, I could literally watch it plummet, 20-30% in an hour with no usage. Deleted & reinstalled my work exchange email/Calendar account & battery life improved, but I still can't get a full day out of it. It usually lasts about 6, maybe 8 hours.

When my battery is draining quickly, my phone gets very hot.  The right side of the phone is very hot when the rogue process is running.  A reboot or two later things settle down.  Hope they fix this soon.

I just got my Iphone 4S yesterday and I charged it once I got it and then I played with it for at least 1 hour and then I turned it off when I went to bed, then today I have had it on all day using Siri, games, internet and so forth and my battery is still at 54%, I have noticed that it does do down WAY faster than my Ipad 2. But I m defiently not losing 10% an hour with it not doing anything.

its also because ios 5 is a betta might me a bug

I have been slowly turning off one benefit of this great new iPhone  after another.   This cannot be the solution. I truly hope Apple is paying attention.  The majority of those that buy their new releases are repeat customers. Great new features are not good if we can't use them. My new iphone 4s does not even make it through the workday.

I just made a 14 minute call and the battery lost 12% of its charge when I was done. I have all the normal "battery drainers" I have heard of off, notification center, bluetooth etc. I also keep the screen at nearly the dimmest level. I am lucky to get 5 hours out of this phone before it dies. Very disappointing for my first iPhone.

Exaclty the same issue with the hot iPhone 4S.  Woke up last Saturday morning and undocked.  By 10 AM (3 hrs later) the phone was blazing and the battery was at 54%.  Charged alot throughout the day, but each time the battery drained quickly and the phone was hot.  Same thing Sunday.  I turned off all notifications, location based apps (find my friends, find my iphone) and finally gave up on push for my exchange server email.  That seems to have worked.  Battery life is good again, but sure wish push worked.  iPhone should be at least as good as blackberry, right?

Hello Kem,

Just a suggestion, can you try either one of the following and see if it helps?

Reset All Settings:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/16556919#16556919

Turn off email Push (not push notifications) and change email check to manual:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/16556919#16556919

Can you try turning off email Push and see if that helps? This is just a hunch of mine, but worth trying out:

Settings > Mail, Contacts... > Fetch New Data > Push to OFF, and change Fetch to Every 30 Minutes

iPhone 4S was on charger all night. Removed this morning around ~8am. It is almost 6pm.

Battery - 72%

Usage - 1 hour 40 minutes

Standby - 9 hours 14 minutes

25 minutes talk time

6.1mb uploaded

161 mb downloaded

Is it? Why would they launch it and prompt all iPhone 4 users to upgrade if it was a beta?

You would think that Apple would recognize that people want push email and have a battery/iOS combo that would allow users to have push email without losing a ton of battery life.

iPhone 4s battery life really *****!  Get a maximum of 27 hrs stand-by time with 3-4 hour of usage.  This is with light usage only with very little video, YouTube etc.  mainly texting, email and phone calls.  I have tried a restore of the phone and have run the battery through 3 complete cycles (i.e. completely run down the phone before recharging) with no impact whatsoever on the battery life.  I also tried switching of some of the battery draining functions but also to no avail.  This cannot be a permanent solution anyway as how much sense does it make to turn off all the functions I bought the phone for in the first place to save battery life?

My daughter has the iphone 4 and tells me she has noticed a greater drain on her battery after upgrading to IOS 5.  Assuming this is a software issue and not a hardware one.

Come on Apple!!  I own at least one of just about evey of your current product range iPod, iMac, MacBook, iPad, iPhone (3GS, 4 & 4s) and love them all, but this is very disappointing. 

MeMeMeMeMe wrote:

 

HYPOTHESIS

 

Interesting.  I just noted that I was able to produce about 700 MB of photo / video data on my iPhone 4S in just a couple days in only about 50 files.  This is because the iPhone 4S generates so much data with its HD video capability.

 

I shudder to think how long it would take to upload 700 MB of data, even using WiFi through my anemic cable modem upstream bandwidth.

 

I thought I had photostream turned off when I was still experiencing the battery drainage problem, but I will check to be sure, and also check to be sure that when photostream is turned off, that the phone is indeed not syncing the photos videos.

 

By default, the 4S is set to upload photos and videos only when attached to WiFi, but when there is a lot of data being uploaded (particularly in videos) it would be better if the phone only uploaded when actually attached to the power supply, or, say, when the battery fullness was greater than 70 %.  Otherwise, those batteries are likely going to drain very fast while the phone chugs along trying to trudge through massive uploads.  Apple could think about putting in a warning message when the phone is disconnected from power supply when there is a lot of syncing yet to do…

 

I don't think this really explains everything, since a lot of people seem to be reporting that turning off photostream doesn't help.  But I'm also going to check to be sure that turning off photostream actually turns off photostream.

Well, now I've looked into it a bit, and this doesn't seem to be a likely explanation.  Turns out, so far as I can tell, you can't see how many photos / videos were uploaded to iCloud by photostream by logging into the iCloud web site.  On a mac, you have to open iPhoto and check your photostream from there.  I just did this, and it turns out, all of the photos and videos in my photostream were taken before I wiped my iPhone and re-set it up fresh.  Im still having the battery problems, and it's not because photostream is uploading videos.

I will contact Apple support tomorrow because same happens on my iphone by Sprint.

I am charging the phone 2x a day, and I loose 55% of battery in 6 hours in stand by.

I don't play games, don't use Siri much, and pretty much browse the web occasionally.

It is disappointing that I have to turn off all great features of the phone...