Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

I seem to be having the same problems, just got my iPhone4s 64 black yesterday and the battery drains incredibly fast, even faster than the 3G I had before, and that one is 3 years old... 

In 6 hours standby the battery drops about 10%, not as fast as some here, but a lot faster than I'm used to. (And yes, I made sure no apps were running in the background) When using it, its seems to drop a percentage every 10 minutes.

I hope there will be a software update for this one soon!

Like you, I am also going through 1 to 2 percent per hour in standby. This will average to somewhere between 50 and 100 hours of total standby time.. Well short of the promised 200!!! I'm continuing to watch the boards, but so far no re solution.

Note that you CAN disable 3G! Go to Settins|Network|Cellular Data and select OFF. Now when you disable or are not in range of a Wi-Fi hotspot, you simply won't have a data network available, however you will know it's not your 3G that is using your battery.

Last night I did a "Reset All Settings" and turned off "Setting Time Zone" in Location Services/System Services and did a full charge over night. I also turned removed "Mail" from Notification Center.

It's been on for 1-1/4 hours now and it's still at 100% battery.  Ran through about 20 emails, opened a bunch of news apps and browsed the web a bit during that time.

For now, seems like it may have helped...

I have the same problem as everyone else. I'm pretty sure the cause is that the new phone/OS is not very good.

Probably the best way to deal with this problem is to just to wait for the iPhone 5 to come out and they will probably fix these small problems.

Can we all just stop complaining as it's not really fair and is making Apple look bad.

a bit confused with your response - so we're ok to dole out $$$ and get a smart phone that's not so smart and when we point this out it makes Apple look bad? perhaps if they have rolled out a smartphone that IS smart they would have been faced with little to no complaints....

consuma anche in stanby all'incerca il 7% l'ora. Non è possibile!

I have the same problem as everyone. I migrated from 3GS (was very satisfied over 2 years) and now i have a big problem with the battery life. This morning the 4S shows only 15% of battery. The last full charge was yesterday at 3.00 pm. After this full charge i'm not using the phone, it was only in standby. Disabled all features like wifi, bluetooth, pushing email-services (download all 15 minutes) and so on. All this settings are working fine on my 3GS. Very disappointing! Next week when i go to work and travel a lot, what can i do? It's niot possible to charge the iPhone twice or more a day.... Hope, that apple fixe the problem very quickly!

Right, my two peneth.

I have had TERRIBLE battery life since 'upgrading' to my 4S from my 4. Quick synopsis:

Restored from my iPhone4 backup running iOS 5. Immediately noticed poor performance - battery wouldnt last a day. Found this page and some other pages with possible solutions:

1. I have no exchange server email accounts.

2. I disabled EVERYTHING from notification centre.

3. The 'set time zone automatically' setting DID have the GPS on continously - but disabling this hasnt helped.

4. Installed a system monitor and have following findings:

     a) Page Faults are going up at around 250 every 2 seconds. I realise these aren't 'faults' but surely there shoudlnt be a release of memory this often! They total over 4 MILLION now!!

     b) In the system log there are 2 recurring themes. First is that there seems to be a recuring apple DEBUG of powerStateWillChangeToGated but more alarming is a WARNING roughly every 15 seconds of UserEventAgent [12] 'Unable to cancel system wake for 2011-10-30 **:**:** +0000 IOPMCancelScheduledPowerEvent() returned 0xe00002c2'    This seems to be more worrying as it indictes there is a failure to stop the system waking.

Without doing ANYTHING on my phone it has used 100% of the battery in 18hours - no phone calls, no texts, no internet!!!

Ive now had enough and am going to restore to factory and see if the phone behaves when it's started from fresh on iOS5.

Apple, I am VERY dissapponted with your performance on this. If it is just the fact that you cannot start from a restore from a previous iPhone then please let us know. But otherwise the OS simply is not fit for purpose. I may switch back to iOS4 on my old iPhone - could get a week standby from that!!!

Good luck apple - you dont have long to sort this out until you lose a LOT of previously loyal customers!

I'll add my name to this ever-growing list of disappointed customers.

It always astonishes me when people suggest switching off things like email, Siri, location services, etc. on our £500+ SMARTPHONES. If I wanted a phone that just made and received calls I wouldn't have paid a premium price for the world's most popular phone; I would have bought an old Nokia off eBay.

Bottom line is it's unacceptable. If a fix isn't released before my 30-day return policy runs out I WILL be giving my 4S back to Apple.

I think everyone should just wait and see - it WILL be fixed:

http://www.beatweek.com/news/12189-iphone-5-release-date-in-spring-2012-competes -with-ipad-3-for-calendar/

Same here, restored my Iphone 4s from my original Iphone 4.

Even after shutting most of the services done, which were enabled on my I4 i still lose battery life much faster.

I'm happy with the speed of the phone and the camera on my I4s, it even beats my powershot during low light conditions. But really battery life realy is one of the top priorities of my Phone. I would mind that the phone isn't the most thinnest one on the market. I would rather have longer battery life.

The battery life of the I4S isn't really workable at the moment.

You cant disable 3G, if you disable data it turns off 3G but also all data, even gprs and edge, hence unlike on the iphone 4 you cannot still recieve emails, i message etc etc with this setting turned off/ its a real shame, on the iphone 4 with ios5 you can still recieve i message and emails etc with 3g off. on the 4s its 3g on or nothing works !!!, very poor !

After having the firmware wiped and restored at the Genius Bar, I have had MUCH better battery life. I also did a complete battery discharge. Right now I'm going on 24 hours since I charged it fully. It is showing 6 hours usage with 47% battery left. No overheating or shutting down problems. Maybe, just maybe, the problem is at least partially fixed.

I have just bought the new iPhone 4S. I was so excited about having the aerial issue fixed. I am having the same problems as everybody here. Has there been any official statements from Apple yet? I just can't get my head round none of these problems get picked up in testing. I really hope Apple comes up with something as the battery life is a major problem.