Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

My iPhone 4 has been losing its charge quickly and getting warm since updating to ios5 as well

My battery life is horrible as well. I have shut off push, notifications, and everything else I could find in apps that would require a web connection. At least now I can go a day using a phone. I still loose about 20% ovrernight with nothing happening. This really is bad. I have my old iPhone 4 and I think I might go back to using that one. Is Siri this battery intensive?

Just had to add my 2¢.

Mark

So, turning off email push actually worked for me.  But, I still contend that this should not be an issue. Blackberries push.  If the iPhone wants to be the corporate answer replacing blackberries, why not design a phone that does the thing blackberry has done from the beginning?

yeah, this is getting a bit ridiculous. had an iphone 1. had an iphone 3gs. just upgraded to the 4s. and the battery is worse now than any of the previous two...and that was a daily complaint for me on the 3gs. i will unplug the phone, put it in my pocket with 100%, drive to work (15 minutes away), and by the time i get to work, it's already at 95%. there's a lot of talk about this possible corrupot contacts issue...syncing back and forth with icloud...etc...but as i have over 3000 contacts, i'm not sure i'm about ready to go through each one of them, one by one, to see which sticks. is there a program anyone knows of, or another method of identifying corrupt contacts? ah ****...once again...only time will tell...question is, how much time will it take? because my phone might not last that long.

Just lost 1% looking at my stats.

My 4s sucked down 12% in less than 30 mins just now.  Push is already off, screen is on dim, Siri off.  Eek!

Feeling a little distressed. Love my iPhone but having to carry my charger everywhere I go is ridiculous. Are we forced to buy the charger/iPhone case so that the phone will last or is Apple going to do something about the battery drain? Come on Apple, throw us a bone...

The iPhone 4s, the "S" is for sucking the living life out of your battery,

The specs;

• Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)
• Standby time: Up to 200 hours
• Internet use: Up to 6 hours on 3G, up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi
• Video playback: Up to 10 hours
• Audio playback: Up to 40 hours

No way in the world these iPhones come anywhere near those figures.

Best Tip to make the battery last long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z11TCoBchZg

If and when a software glitch is corrected, what kind of damge would these massive charging cycles have on the iPhone battery overall?

I am no battery expert, but I would havce to assume this would decrease the battery life in general.

Certainly Apple must have tested Push in iOS5, but I don't think it's Push email per se, but more a function of how much CPU processing it takes for every batch of new emails iOS5 gets. Again, this is just my best guess based on my experiments and reading the comments here, so hopefully Apple figures this out shortly.

I bought my iPhone 4s on the first day from my Verizon store. Got in line at 5:15 am. I already got my local store to take back my first phone which was consuming its battery with light use after only 4 or 5 hours. The new one that I got two days ago is going maybe half an hour longer. I have wanted a new iPhone for a long time. What a disappointing experience. It makes a great phone into a mediocre one.

Based on what I'm reading here there are almost 3 types of people here having battery problems:

1.  People with completely unusable phones - lose >20% battery life with very short use (hours)

2.  People with modest drains in battery - upwards of 5-10%/hour with very little use

3.  People with a mixture - Folks like me that lose up to 50% overnight when the phone is doing nothing (usually with any previous generation iPhone I can expect a maximum 5% overnight without usage any usage).

There's clearly something wrong as our phones are not acting as supposed to.  This is not the first time this has ever happened with a product launch (my iPad 2 suffered tremendous battery losses), and it's clear Apple knows about this.

If your phone is unusuable, I'd bring it in.  If it's just modestly annoying, which is what it seems for most of us, I think we're just in for a wait until an official announcement is made.

They didn't send out Millions of defective phones... something else is going on here.

Our battery life is actually so poor from following this thread - I've had over 130 emails in the past hour from updates!

I have similar issues. Full charge done at 4pm, drained from 0% battery

Sent about 20 sms, went on ebuddy for maybe 30 minutes, no phone calls.

played a few minutes of gun bros and now i'm down to 85%

Like many here, I've turned off most location based services.. the battery is quite disappointing

-billy

The strangest thing has been happening to me. I have the iphone 4S, which I got the first day it was released.  Three days ago (that would be Wednesday, October 26, 2011) the battery began loosing its power quickly.  It was amazing to see the lost of battery power that fast.  I mean like looking at my phone with power of 50% and five minutes later it was at 30%.  I knew something was wrong.  I turned off push email, no roaming, etc...

Yesterday (Oct 27) the same thing happened, except that the iphone died by 2pm--I was speechless and so disappointed.  Today, (Oct 28), my phone was dead by Noon, consider that at 8am it was charged at 98% and I made and received no phone calls, no texts at all...nothing other than check the weather, check my stocks and read the NYT.  By the time I left the office at 5pm, I was in panic mode.  Went to Verizon, they told me to go to Apple.  Went to Apple store, but couldn't schedule anything with the Genius Bar till tomorrow afternoon.

I've been a long time fan of any Apple.  I've owned iphones, MacBooks Pro, Ipad...etc...I've been the biggest Apple booster ever.  I need some answer soon.

Yea, I've been having this issue as well. My original iPhone would go 2 days on a single charge with light use. But I have to charge my iPhone 4s every night now, with the same use behavior. I used to have my Bluetooth one my original iPhone on all the time also, I'm afraid to set it up on my 4s now. Apple, please help.