Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

Same here, my Iphone 4 running IOS5 is hours ahead of the 4S. Battery lasting 7hr at off mode and less then 4 hr with minimal use.its not only ios5 its the actual 4S

It's quite funny to see 2 Apple users actually debating on whether it's a small or big number of users who are experiencing the problem. This is so irrelevant in the sense that the issue is the OS, and it may be that certain conditions will trigger the sympoms (using a new operator, using a new app, restoring in such a way, having malformed data passed on to you, entering an unusual coverage area, etc), and we have seen users have standard battery life and all of a sudden having draining i.e. they triggered the conditions. Well, that means that this bug has the potential of affecting every single user down the line. And someone supporting an operator has even hinted about the phones dropping a lot from their networks and such. Plus if you get such a high number of reports to forums such a small time after launch, and of course you have to count in the "my Apple phone is perfect and cannot have an issue syndrome" where many people experiencing this charge their phone in secret behind closed doors as soon as they get a chance, plus the people who just don't have the time to complain because they're busy and think to themselves we'll I'll just trade it in for a new one etc. You have to be utterly blind to see this whole ordeal as something trivial, especially when taking into consideration the price you guys pay and what you're used to getting from Apple. Since this morning I have read about one user who's entirely confident about Apple because he was treated right by support and they're sending him a new replacement phone... but he doesn't even know if the new phone won't have the issue. Then just now you have this guy praising Apple and deciding to buy the phone because Apple is working on a fix. And many like him are just repeating the "fix" news, whereas I've posted hours ago already about some results of some devs trying 5.0.1... I can't help but notice how the distortion field remains strong. Sugarcoating what's happening won't solve it. Saying that some illiterate user who's using 1% of the phone won't have so much of an issue with it is simply ridiculous. People coming here don't even read 2-3 pages back. Sometimes I lose hope in you guys.

My 4s battery life is horrible! It's actually worse than my 3GS..

I have a brand new iPhone 4s and a "older" iPad 2 (Wifi onfly). The iPad got upgraded to iOS 5 and I have no battery issues with it. The iPhone 4S on the other hand drains like ****. Since my iPad is not 3G and WIFI only, I think it’s something related to  3G. Either hardware or software.

It says on the PC world that Apple has acknowledged the Battery problem as a problem with iOS 5.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/243075/apple_promises_a_fix_for_iphone_4s_battery _issues.html#tk.nl_dnx_h_crawl

The battery of my iPhone 4S is the worst from the posts I have seen in this forum. Even if not used for over 4 hours, the battery drops from 100% to an amazing 60%!!

And if I want to charge it to 100%, it will take at the very least 2 hours. I am not sure if anyone else is facing the same problem or is it a fault with my device?

And ofcourse I have done everything to save battery, being a techy! But still face major issues.

4S battery is very poor. Same comments as all previous complaints.

I have the 3GS and noticed the battery draining faster when I updated to IOS 5. I could not figure out why at first and then discovered the new notification screen on accident when I slid my thumb down the screen to open an app. That is when I discovered weather, stock ticker, and other things scrolling. I realized that I will probably hardly ever scroll to the notification screen and if I want to see weather, stocks, etc, I can look them up like before. So, I went into notifications and turned them all off. That really helped. Also, and only recently when I read about the time zone setting on these forums, I went to the systems services in the location services and turned off that as well as the location-based iAds and compass calibration. I noticed the location symbol kept comming up next them. Once I did that, my battery drain was only 4% as ooposed to more than 10% the night before when I made those changes while my phone laying on the table over night.

sean-g11--Seriously?

In the grand scheme of things it is a very small number. Consider how many phones have been sold and how many are having or more importantly reporting problems. That doesnt mitigate that its not important to us small number that it is affecting. Do you think Apple should make a public statement that "most" users are having a problem??? That would not be correct I can assure you.

If a doctor told you that your odds of getting brain cancer were the same as those who experiencing battery issues would you not be VERY happy????? Put it in perspective.

Everyone keeps loading these forums with subjective gargage, "my 4S battery ***** big time". That is very quantitative and helpful to Apple, yea right. They are watching the thread and they do care but this clutter is only prolonging them gathering objective data.

I too am having problems so I feel the pain however I too have been personally contacted by Apple and know they are working on it. I have actually received 3 seperate calls from Apple so this BS about how "we are not important" is totally unsubstantiated.

Sorry sean G11 this vent is on your coat tails as its not meant to be soley at you. Its to everyone making the matter worse by wasting our time with their ***** and moan postings.

I promise everyones life is not going to end if you have to charge more than you think you should until a fix can be implemented. Even then there will still be settings and tweaks to mazimze our batteries so a fix is not an end all.

Lets help Apple help us, they want to but we continue to discount the real issues with our endless crying.

Danny

Sorry sean-g11, I looked at the wrong post. It was bcmedic I intended to call out.

Prime example of how easy it is to get lost in all this clutter.

Please accept my apologies.

Danny

I have a White iphone 4S with same battery life issue. is this issue only to the white phones and not the black ones? I can't even get a full day out of it. It's like having Droid.

I am hardly on the phone. May be 5min of total call time.

check facebook and email twice a day while on the bus for about total of 10min a day.

Music for total of 120min day

and the battery is showing end warning. can this be right? total use time definitely does not add up what apple claims the battery life should be.

2nd day i had the iphone, completed charge it when dead on me overnight. woke up to a dead phone, didnt think of it much at that time coming from Droid i was use to this. but it's getting worse now.

Apple please fix this soon!!!

not a happy first time iphone user.

It's quite funny to see 2 Apple users actually debating on whether it's a small or big number of users who are experiencing the problem. This is so irrelevant in the sense that the issue is the OS, and it may be that certain conditions will trigger the sympoms (using a new operator, using a new app, restoring in such a way, having malformed data passed on to you, entering an unusual coverage area, etc), and we have seen users have standard battery life and all of a sudden having draining i.e. they triggered the conditions.

 

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For my part, I can't understand why you waste so much of your time spouting off here when you don't even own an iPhone.  From what I can tell, you are nothing but a fandroid who is immensly enjoying the fact that the 4S is disappointing a fair number of people. 

The only thing I've seen you say which comes even close to being truthfull was your commentary on smartphone battery life, where you manage a thread bare acknowledgement that most smartphones have abysmal battery life.

Let's compare and be honest, shall we?  MOST of the manufacturers of Android phones don't even publish battery life specifications.  Take a look at HTC's web site - you won't find a mention of battery life anywhere in the tech specs for their phones.  Why do you suppose that is, eh?

Well, if you happen to do a web search on "HTC battery life"  it gets clear really quickly; it's because battery life for their phones is widely reported to suck.  Ditto for a search like "Android battery life".  Poor battery life is a long running issue with a wide swath of Android phones.

The fact is, these devices are doing a lot, and battery technology hasn't caught up with the rest of the device.  That's not an apology for Apple or a dismissal of the reality of the issue.  That said, I find it really rich to have you, as no doubt the owner of a complete piece of trash that drains battery harder than an iPhone, pontificating on what we as Apple users may or may not do.

If you take a step back and try to achieve some kind of perspective, irrespective of brand, what this all means is that application steered 3G is a failure in terms of mobility with the current available hardware. I've come to realize that today. They've pushed design and features and competed at the OS level without properly taking into account their software inefficiency and it's impact on 3G and they've made a farce out of the concept of mobility. Sad days for the mobile industry...

So my iphone 4s battery life has drastically improved.  it could be that it's gone through several charge cycles drain down to 20%> and then full charge.  I also did a battery calibration the first night i bought the phone.  my phone has been going since 6pm yesterday and it's almost 2:30 pm today and i'm at 15%.  the only difference was that i didn't have bluetooth on but everything else was the same (wifi, push email, gps with the extra stuff turned off)  some graphs on my battery life.  i purchased the phone on sunday 10/30 so there's two charge cycles not included in these graphs.

each block represents 1 hour in the x-axis and 5% in the y-axis

mclarenfanfromlondon wrote:

 

It says on the PC world that Apple has acknowledged the Battery problem as a problem with iOS 5.

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/243075/apple_promises_a_fix_for_iphone_4s_battery _issues.html#tk.nl_dnx_h_crawl

 

The battery of my iPhone 4S is the worst from the posts I have seen in this forum. Even if not used for over 4 hours, the battery drops from 100% to an amazing 60%!!

 

And if I want to charge it to 100%, it will take at the very least 2 hours. I am not sure if anyone else is facing the same problem or is it a fault with my device?

 

And ofcourse I have done everything to save battery, being a techy! But still face major issues.

Well the problem is that there are iphone 4 users experiencing battery drain after upgrading to ios5. The 4S did not have ios4 on it so there is no way to compare os's to each other. I also believe it is a software problem and not a hardware problem. I am sure that it will be fixed with a delta patch soon.

Fair enough. I can appreciate your no ******** stance. I was happy to see Apple stumble just a little bit (insofar as it may induce more competition in the field and bring Apple users down to earth), but I have sympathy for the user base, truly. And I did make some constructive comments since I've joined the forum. What I like the most from Apple is OSX. I stand for consumer's rights, free software, open source, computer literacy, public heatlh, freedom and intellectual honesty plus quite a few other things... and any business that caters to those will gain further respect from me. I don't care much for Android per se.

You last comment goes pretty much in the same direction as my last observation, though you qualify it in terms of battery tech not being on par, and I qualify it as a design/architecture and delusion issue.

So I hear you.