Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

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The battery update was totally useless, possibly worse than before I updated. I hope Apple doesn't consider this, "A small percentage of people." complaining of battery plobems. This is a big problem.

Hi,

I have an idea for Apple how to change the iOS 5 to be more energy efficient, but I want to know, what do you think about it. Imagine a situtation, you have opened some game, you are playing it and you want to close it. You have to press the home button, go to home screen and then pres the home button twice, hold the game icon for a while and then closing it by X on the left upper corner. Why? If I want to close an app, I want to press the home button, so that the app is closed. Not on, not in the background. And If I just want to skip to another program or app or to call smb, I can simply press the home button twice and change the app. The thing is, that I have to turn off dozens of apps several times every day even though I did not want them to run in background. Why? I believe it would save a lot of time for users, it could also prolong the battery life and in the apps shown could be a small icon of the "desktop" which would be for the case, that you want to leave the app turned on a switch to another app which is not opened yet.

What do you think?

Roman

apps running in the background has not caused major battery lost since like IOS 3

Yep, the update has made it worse, you can see the percentage just dropping away.

Come on Apple, you can do better than this.

As Fashioncheque says, this must not be treated as a "A small percentage of people."

Please review the patch and deliver a proper fix without rushing at it.

well the good news is, that in my case the update to 5.0.1 has actually helped. Mind you not initially, as I experienced the same issues of a superfast drain than before. I then decided to do a restore to 5.0.1 and that seems to have done the trick. Standby time of 22 hours and usage of 2.5 hours the phone still shows 50% which now provides me with enough juice to let me go through a day without worrying :-) sweet.

My 4s was definitely draining at an alarming rate prior to the update. I've been reading this thread for about twenty minutes and my battery level has dropped from 98% to 96%. Seems like a definite improvement, but I don't want to speak too soon. Normally I'll go to bed with a 75% battery life, and wake up to a dead phone, so my expectations aren't too high.

ive had the 4 s for 3 weeks now never really had a battery issue but followed this forum closely though and used all the tips for turning things off (i ads,diagnotics, ping,siri raise to speak etc )I updated yesterday to 5.01 and restored settings then turned all the above off again drained the battery till it died and left overnight turned off to charge from the wall for 8 hours,turned it on this morning 100% so i was gonna check the usage hourly but when i checked it gave no reading but said it will give reaing after next full charge ?? so i plugged it back in the wall and it dropped to 97% as soon as i plugged it in ?????will charge it again and report back later .

Same problem.. but mine is iPhone 4 only and it's decreasing by 1% per minute (I'm serious, I can take screenshots if you want). I don't even play any games on my iPhone but tweeting and checking for more tweets already decreased 1%. Any solutions to this? :/

It really is a small percentage of users. I have not had any problems whatsoever with my white 32GB 4S on AT&T. Perhaps the issue affects sprint or Verizon users more. Maybe it is even a CDMA problem. My 4S lasts a good 7 hrs at home constantly browsing and listening to music. It really ***** that the 4S is getting a bad rep from problems that are affecting maybe 100,000 users out of the millions sold already. Try restoring the phone and setting it up as a new phone. This is what I always do. Turn off notification junk from twitter and facebook if you have that running as well. If you are running a clean phone with the brightness on half and most of the junk turned off and you still have battery leakage then exchange the phone. Get a white one if you had the black or vice-versa.

People.....The VAST majority of new iphone 4s users are NOT having problems. Its not the hardware, or EVERYONE would be having the same exact problem. The simple fact that many users are experiencing worse battery life after update, and others experiencing improved performance after, proves this fact. It's a software problem. Plain and simple. If it were a physical battery problem, then no amount of updates would change anything, but as we have seen, update changed many things differently for many different people. It can only be software related, or a particular app running in the background for some, or batt. meter not showing correct batt. charge condition. which would again be a software related problem. My 4s is showing "usage" @1 hour 46 min. / "standby" @1day 8 hours / batt. life % @ 79%. I did the IOs update yesterday morning....didn't have any effect on performance what-so-ever.

And holds up very well with heavier usage. Above stats are with 3g on most of the time, along with locations enabled around 8 hours a day. So as you can see, it is not the design of the phone, or usage of lousy components. My phone, like most others, are working great. I'm just posting this to try and steer people away from going down the "It's the hardware" road. It clearly has nothing to do with the phone itself, or everyone would be having the exact same problem.

Mine works, yours doesn't. There can only be one conclusion.  

I think I was a lucky one.  I did not have any battery problems with my iPhone 4s.  But that changed yesterday.  I updated to 5.0.1 and I am loosing about 20% in one night now.  Previously with 5.0.0 it was only 4%.  I did not change anything, just updated to 5.0.1.  What a nightmare.  Please Apple, fix this immediately.  There is definitely something going wrong (in the software).

so some who disnt have probs with battery are now having them!

Ive had poor battery from day one on my 4s tried alsorts

then waited eagerly for an update...Well..the update as made

my problem worse! I have just less than 20 mins ago took my 4s off

full charge, I checked twitter and mail and Im

now on 86% thats crazy!!

Come on Apple sort this out asap please!!

Yes, I agree. This is a major issue & the one most commented apon by 4[s] users.

  My phone has gone from a full charge to 50% overnight & I haven't used it! All notifications & location services are off.

Why aren't Apple commenting or advising?

i have a 3gs my last one had bad battery issues got a replacement from apple cause i updated phone while Apples servers were really high and that screwed up my phones battery life got new phone after servers were quieted doned a month later battery is fine with battery doctor app and i told my friend about that fix on his 4s and his drops 2% every mintune while using 3G internet before he lost 4% every 57 seconds while using 3G plus updating phone while servers are overworked can screw up the phone i updated my iphone on release date battery sucked got replacement month later it worked. basically i helped fix his iphone issuse.