Is anyone else having a problem with the iPhone 4s Battery Life? My 1 year old Iphone 4, which I gave to my wife, is holding a charge better and she has been using it far more than I've been using my 4s

You have to remember that the battery life apple claims is fantasised. The iPhone 4s will have a lower battery life as it has a lot more power and functionality it has to cope with. My best advice is to stick it out. Youve got a powerful phone which obviously would use lots of power. If it is bugging you that much downgrade to the 4 and have a slightly worse camera and no siri. IMAGINE A WOLD WITHOUT ******* SIRI! Apple claims many things about battery lifes but sadly they do not come true. Another thing to help is to make sure as many things as possible are closed. When your not using 3G , turn it off! same with everything else. Even the settings you could make as basic as possible. (Just to let you know, the settings being basic will not help.)

Various users having been experiencing a reduction in battery life on 3gs, 4 and the 4s. I have found by disabling things in iCloud and Location Services I have seen a drastic increase in my battery life. Read through this thread and try some of the suggestions HDcrazy made and see if one of them resolves your issue.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3378076?start=0&tstart=0

Let it die completely and then recharge. The battery might need to be calibrated.

Battery life seems to be a widespread problem with the new phone. I would suggest going to: settings/about/diagnostics & usage/ and clicking 'don't send'. Mine was set to automatically send (factory setting?) When I looked at the send data there were 30 sends on 10/14 (I didn't even get the phone working until 4:00 pm), 150 sends on 10/15 and 328 on 10/16 and I'm not going to even begin to count today's. So essentially, every 4.4 minutes I'm sending diagnostic data to Apple at the expense of my battery life.

I turned it off. We'll see if this makes a difference.

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hi

reminders and calendar have a setting to sync the last 2 weeks events....up to ... all events in settings>mail, calendar...at the bottom of the submenu screen

everytime you access or keep running the reminders or calendar they sync trough cellular network

and syncing...and syncing...and....

and eating up celular data usage (0,3-0,5 Mbeach time they syc) and eating up batery life

if there would be a option to sync it just when icloud is updating (for the period allready setup as explained before) it would spare our batery life and celular data usage

but then carriers partners would charge less and theyr interest is to charge more...on our expence and iphone batery life

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Hi,

I think I’ve found a cause of the battery drain. Believe it or not but it’s the System Service for setting Time Zone. If I go to Settings -> Location Services -> System Services and turn ON the “Status Bar Icon” option at the bottom, I can see the GPS is in permanent use. Disabling the “Setting Time Zone” option immediately stops it.

I’ve tried this on my dad’s iPhone 4s too. I suspect it’s an iOS5 bug.

All the best,

Alex

It's not a bug, it's an unfortunate consequence of having a lot of bells and whistles on a phone - and I'm not defending Apple on this.

I'm disappointed with the battery life on my 4S and had hoped it would be a lot better than my old 3GS. It's not.

I've now resorted to switching off all location services and email push (I figure I can just as easily open an email box and check for mail manually) and this has solved the battery drain.

I switched the phone on with a full charge at 9am and have used it a few times for voice and data. Three hours later, the battery is at 89%.

Yesterday, with all the notifications and push on, it was about 50% by this time.

This works wonders. Do it for the first three charges. Completely drain it, then charge it completely. Don't use it while charging. After the 3rd time the battery life will be far better.

I'm on my second full drain since Friday. Charged yesterday morning and 24 hours later I still have 30%. It will die today and that will be my 3rd full cycle. It works and battery life gets better each time.

Having same problem. Rapid discharge in standby mode :(

turn off GPS apps and go to clock settings to turn off time zone setting unless u travel to different time zone. when u go to settings tap location services go down to system services and turn off just setting time zone that always uses GPS and must of all Data and if u have 3G on while GPS is on bye battery and Data plan usage. leave the find my Iphone alone dont turn off.

hi i just wanted to say about my iphone 4s, it is now at 50% its standby time is 12 hours 10 mins, and usage is 3 hours 38 mins, i hope this helps to compare battery life, i could be wrong but mine dont seem to be so bad, please reply if i am wrong,

blutooth is off

icloude is off

siri is also off as to be honest i dont see myself ever using it really

I had major issues with the iPhone 4s battery, however it’s resolved.

The tech who set the phone up at the Apple store did so with little training.

if you have a mobile me account. First go and move all your data to the cloud by going on your computer and logging in at me.com/move. The cloud has replaced mobile me, so there is no need for those two accounts

Also make sure that for any of your email accounts you set them up to fetch, not push. My tech person set them all to have the email servers push data to the phone. The new iphone4s antenna is extremely strong so it will continually try to access stuff that is pushed–***** a lot of battery life doing this. It makes it worse if you have exchange 2010 accounts. Something about changes made to exchange really suck battery life from devices that access such accounts.

turning of locator and the push notifications from facebook--they have a lot!

not impressed at all with the 4s battery and having to turn stuff I use off to get any battery life, my 4 eats the 4s on how long the battery lasts etc

I ran my 4 with everything and every app i can, whatsapp, facebook etc etc constantly multitasking and have no issues really, if i try the same with the 4s with everything off it still doesnt last anywhere near the 4 😟 confused, I really hope Apple do some fix with the iOS soon, Like others have said I bought the phone to use it and expect it to last as long as my 4 if not longer, pretty dissapointed 😟

I agree with you, my iphone 4 would have the apps running and still the battery held strong. i do not agree with the other previous psoter who said to turn off siri, bluetooth and icloud then what was the point of me upgrading to a 4S. also i dont think i should have to turn those features off to make a battery last longer is an option for me. i also thought maybe the batt would work itself out after a couple of days but once i noticed that waking up in th morning and finding my phone only at 93% after being on the charge for 7 hours is a problem. i am currently on hold with apple now, hopefully its just my phone and not an issue with all iphone 4S's.

Note Apple's own published specs state the 4S will drain its battery 33% faster in standby than the 4 or 3GS: