Why is my iPhone 4s battery dying fast and getting hot? Any suggestions On what I should do?

I'm having the same problem, but my phone is feeling like it is going to actually melt. I put sometimes a cold bottle of water or something very cold to help my phone cool down. But I do think this is a severe problem with the iPhone. Hopefully they'll fix it with an update.

If ur iphone is jail broken that should be normal :S

I recently upgraded to a White 16GB iPhone 4s, i've been experiencing all of these issues from the right side and the back heating up while i'm using my phone. The battery drains really fast and i'm a little bit concerned about this, are these problems only on the White 4s model? Because, I have no problem switching to a Black iPhone 4s if that's the problem because I really don't want to deal with this for the next year or so. Any idea if it's only on the White model?

I have the exact same problem, it went away for a while after the latest update IOS 6.1.2 couple of days ago.. but it came back AGAIN !!!!

this is seriously annoying !!!

One of the reasons is using a lot of apps.

my iPhone did the same thing, got hot and battery went down fast. It finally fried itself and I lost everything in it. Had to get a new phone. I was told there was no way to retrieve my information once it fried.