Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

I would make sure your apps are all closed out before standby at night.

How?

Adding to this I too am suffering c. 10-15%/hour battery loss.  Had an iphone 4, 3GS and 3G and never experienced battery loss anywhere near this level.  What are Apple doing to address this?  Updated to 5.0.1 with no change in performance.

I returned mine after 10 days trying everything with no luck. I had a battery defect because it was so hot like the oven even with just 4 minutes watching you tube or talked on the phone or a couple of text mgs. I just went to the store and told them the story. They took it back. I went to my Carrier though not Apple Store because I knew there was something wrong with the phone. I didn't want to take the risk of calling Apple and waited for them to send me a certified phone. I want something in the wrapped box. I read some where in this forum, somebody also returned his phone successfully because of overheat too. So if you have some issues with your phone because of that, please return it. It will save you in the long run.

By the way, thanks for all of the tips contributed from the users in this forum, some of my friends's phones work great now.

I THINK THERE MIGHT BE A PROBLEM WITH THE BATTERY LIFE ON iOS 5. WE NEED TO REPORT THIS TO APPLE!

I guess Apple alredy know about that Since they are stating that some battery life issues are about to be fixed within the next updates!

Double tap the home button them prees the icon until it wiggles. Then click the minus sign to close it out.

I wish Apple would just add a few new options, this would help everyone and allow people to cater their devices to their own personal usage habits, while reducing unnecessary battery use:

(1) An option to the multitasker that allows us to hit a single button to terminate all apps (versus having to close them one by one).  Yea, I know it doesn't that that long, but it would make life easier.  Maybe add it next to the running application icons or maybe have an option to terminate all apps when the lock screen is brought up by user intervention (i.e. pressing the lock button).

(2) An option to shut off the app multi-tasker and have it run like before the the 4.x release that added multi-tasking support.  Obviously some Apple system services would still be able to multi-task, this would only apply to AppStore downloaded apps. 

(3) Maybe add an option to suspend all apps while at the lock screen and/or on standby?  Once again, strictly the AppStore downloaded apps.

This ***** my iphone 3Gs still (after more than 1yr of isage)has better battery than this 4s. I updated to 5.0.1 and it is actually worse now. Also the volume goes up and down by itself.  Work this out quick!!!!

Hi all,

I too am experiencing fairly lousy battery life with my 4s, on the order of 5-10% battery life used when idle. On 3g I dropped about 17% in 40 minutes. Apple's really disappointed me with this latest line of products (MBP as well).

I've also been noticing significant drainage while I'm charging the phone. I leave it on the charger overnight and when I wake up in the morning, I'm noticing I only have 92-95% battery left rather than 100. Has anyone else noticed this?

My 4s is not that bad, as i turned it on at 4.30am and been on facebook on internet and text, and its 16.55 now and i still have 69%

I did 5.0.1 update yesterday.

I cannot actually say if it's some kind of bandwagon or the real thing. I am not sure that my iphone 4s (black 16g shipped last week) has a battery issue, but I'd say there's something definitively wrong. And 5.0.1 didn't make things better.

What puzzles me is that the battery life seems to be rather random. I've been using it in a fairly similar way: auto-fetch email every 15 minutes, iCloud on, a few phonecalls a day, try to switch wi-fi off when I know there's none of my networks around. One day it lives up to more than 30 hours before hitting 20% while today it stayed plugged in all night and at 17:00 it was going below and I didn't even make a phone call. It's as if between 15 and 17 it ate up 30% of the battery just standing by.

But now the battery got stubborn and I am really having some trouble making it go down to zero. It must definitively be a calibration issue.

I have had my phone since it came out. I have charged it all the right ways and I have also updated to the iOS 5.0.1. The battery life is still horrible. I have been reading news and searching the web for answers to this battery issue all on wifi and it has drained from 100% to 88% in about 40 mins. This is just rediculous. Anyone have ny helpful hints? Or having the same issue after the update?

Yesterday when i woke up my phone battery went from 100 to 68% in just 10 hours and that was all standby wifi was on fetching emails every 15 minutes should not take 32% as my old iphone 4 use to be at 95% when i woke up and that was with push email.

I have been currenty draining my battery last night i turned off Wifi and switched on 3G when i woke up today in 9 hours the battery had only drained 14% on with 3G. same configuration

I am confused how can 3G be eating up less battery on standby then wifi.

I have a issue with all the so called fixes. I pay good money for something that should work. I buy a phone for the features. Should not have to turn them off. Because if everyone here is correct themn Apple tested this with all the features turned off. If not then they released a garbage phone.The battery life on 4s in horrible. Apple already had antenna gate now it seems they have battery gate. I would assume this is killing some sales. My experience on 4s and 5,0,1:

1) Charge over night battery indicates 93% charged on 4s on 4 100%.

2) Unplugged my 4s and 4 at the same time 7;30am. Both running 5.0.1. Current state with using Siri twice to add a reminder and taking two  phone calls that lasted two minutes each. On my other phone a 4, have checked mail several times taken 2 calls that lasted 20 minutes each, surfed the NET. 4s shows 73% battery life and 4 shows 91%.

3) Have seen not impact on my or my wifes iPads. Seems to be about the same.

I still think this is a issue with Siri since I can watch the battery go down about 5% after using Siri briefly. I refuse to turn off services since this is the reason I bought the phone.