Q: iPhone 4s Battery Life?

ditto. Not at all much better than my 3gs.

has everyone here got find my iphone turned on? i know i have, everyone seems to have left that out.

i honestly dont know what to do 24mths is a long time in a contract

i might just send her back get my £100 back and moved to a 30 day rolling contract. and buy a phone or move to a new phone when i see fit.

at the end of the day siri in the uk is Lame it cant do half the stuff that was sold to us. and i can get and ipod for 160 and it will do everthing but call now cause it has imessages now

I tried this and it worked for me. http://bit.ly/w0FZVm

Found A Bad App!

I have 2 iPhone 4s and the app is "Find Friends", when I launch it it seems to use either 3G or WIFI, but for some resaon it looses the AT&T signal and goes into search mode until it locks on to AT&T again and then to 3G only to start the search process all over again.  This will also create a crash file on the iPhone.

On my 3rd AT&T 64 black after two genius bar replacements.    Nothing has changed with my severe battery drain.  Even a new sim didn't help.   I've also shut down some settings, started from new, worked without email, etc.  same issues.   I've had every prior generation and an unaffected Verizon 16 4s in my house, so clearly know what to expect. 

What I can say is that the excessive drain is not linear as the rates of drop change from time to time....but all excessive.

I'm of the belief at this point of the firmware/software theory.   Too hard to fathom that I drew 3 short straws on non-conforming hardware.  With that said, I'm waiting it out for an iOS update or unique and specific fix from apple.

so if you do this "reset all", what do you lose?

or apple acknowlegding the issue

I'm a firm believer in the "bad app" theory, as quite a few people (including the one who posted right above your post) fixed the problem by removing the bad app. As did dozens of others in this thread. If you actually read the thread you might find a simple solution yourself, as many have been posted.

Mate If your in the UK and you find that your phone persists to fall short of what you expected then under the Sales of Goods Act 1979 you have (I think) 6 months to "refuse" the phone. Check your rights on the matter but as far as the phones concerned you have more than just the 14 day guarantee if something is wrong with it !

You may still be tied to the contract but you dont have to accept the phone and your retailer have to provide you with a replacement.

Got a new replacement from the apple store yesterday.  Same problems today.  Still drains about 3% over 5 minutes of just reading the same webpage.  Feels warm most of the day.  Will return the iphone tomorrow, not taking chances of there is no software fix on the horizon.  May ultimately be due to the double antenna.

Same issue here, ATT iPhone 4s 32 GB Black battery life went from bad to horrible.  Yesterday it went from full charge to less than 10% by noon with very little use.  I didn't have a charger with me so I went without a phone for the second half of the day.  Not optimal with kids and family that I need to stay in contact.  Phone was hot to touch.  Performed a full reset and installed no 3rd party apps, disabled weather and stock updates.  The phone is running cool now, I'll update if the battery life improves.  Although, the solution cannot be remove all apps and disable all features.

i love the phone i just want longer battery life.

apple are replacing it this week i just dont want to have to have alot of stuff turned off to use it

Ditto, ditto, ditto, until I tried what KC Kenshern outlined on page 9 of this thread. See below (slightly edited).  I now have what appears to be normal battery life.  I'm at 78% after 1 hour 34 minutes of usage, 18 hours of standby.  This included several short phone calls, a few texts, an e-mail or two and some random other stuff.  I have notifications on, selectively, find my iPhone on, all system services off, wi-fi on, e-mail on fetch manually and notifications on manual.  So basically, normal usage for the phone.  I think I'm happy now.

1. Back up your iPhone on to the iCloud. If you dont have enough space like I did, then make sure you have backed up your phone content on iTunes first.  Then do a 'Erase All Content & settings' under General | Reset. Start as  a new phone go thru all the initial settings & then restore from iCloud back-up. Dont connect to Laptop yet. Once iCloud back-up is done then hook up to Laptop for music etc back-up ( note you need to create a name@me.com email in order to get into iCloud). Apple tech believes that when you restore or back-up for first time on your new iPhone 4S, which will be from your iTunes from your previous iPhone, there are some options that are not super optimized for iPhone 4S & this can cause battery issues which I thought was sensible enough.

i once had a new dell laptop computer with windows on it.  i left the house after shutting the computer and putting it in its carrying case. needless to say when i returned several hours later the computer was in the case at an extremely high heat to the touch. the computer looked off, but really wasn't.  it ended up being a known bug (to dell support personnel anyway) in microsofts windows program to shut windows down. the end result was a failed motherboard discovered sometime later after some erratic activities started to happen when using the computer caused by the original high temps.

that is what i'm afraid as well for this ip4s situation. the longer it goes on the greater the possibility of collateral damage to the the hardware from what may have started from a software issue.  this is assuming it is a merely isolated software issue.

Well since it appears as though Apple is monitoring this thread, although with 59 pages of replies, I can't guess they're really doing anything about it.  But I'll add my $.02.

I'm on AT&T and just upgraded from a 4 to a 4S.  The battery life on my 4 was STELLAR!!  I'm a real estate agent and am using my phone all day long.  Phone calls, looking up property on the web, I even use my iPhone to open the lockboxes to get me into homes.  I could go all day with my iPhone 4 and maybe by the time I got home around 7PM it would be down to 20% or so.  (Now I would occasionally charge it while driving, but the battery life was exceptional)

Now I have my iPhone 4S.  I've done the "Let it die and recharge thing" to "Condition" the battery and that did not help at all.  Last night it sat on the charger (a Sony clock radio) all night powered off.  (Hold top button slide red slider).  It was at 100% this morning when I got up.  I took it to the gym and watched a workout video while on the treadmill for 36 minutes.  Checked in on Foursquare while at the gym (stole the mayorship too!).  Took a photo of the Sunrise over Mount Rainier on the way home and posted that to Facebook.  Played about 10 minutes worth of Bejeweled Blitz during our sales meeting this morning and posted to Facebook a frew times.  I also received 3 phone calls, answered one of them and talked for maybe 5 minutes on it.  The phone has been powered on for about 6.5 Hours and is currently at about 17% on the battery.

It is now typical that I leave the phone on the charger in my office, in my car, at home becuase I can literally sit there and watch the battery drain before my eyes.  The battery life on my phone now is HORRIBLE.

What is the fix?  I also did the whole "Reset all Settings" thing today . . . but doesn't seem to have helped.

There you have it.