iPhone 4S Poor Battery Performance SOLVED!!

I did the same thing. My year old Iphone 4 was updated to IOS 5 and the battery lasted a very short time. I tried several suggestions from different members and mag articles but no difference. Since I have the battery % meter turned off my battery life has increased to levels of pre IOS 5. I hope it's that simple a fix for a lot of people.

I found the biggest drain to be Reminders which are location-based. The GPS is always on trying to locate where you are, etc. When I deleted the reminders with locations (or removed the locations) the purple arrow disappeared immediately and now I am getting MUCH better battery performance.

I think the real problem is that the phone will not time out, but instead gets caught in a loop. Be it mail notification searches or searching to reconnect to Wifi. Turn off mail push and fetch also in favor of manual. The fetch will get caught in a loop and drain the battery quckly. I attempted to iMessage my nephew and found that it thought it was connected to Wifi. It kept trying to send the message until the battery was drained, would not switch over to 3G when it could not re-establish the connection. Make sure you're not spinning down the battery trying to reconnect to Wifi or trying to fetch mail from a dropped server connection.

same here, i read just read on an online mag, that they are wondering if 1000s of the iphones 4s have had the wrong hardwear put when being put togeater in china by mistake, like the wrong proccessor in ;-( lol that would explanin everything, latest model with a old prossecor reving it nads off lol....

That's exactly how I feel! I've got a brandnew 4s as well and I feel like I need to recharge it everyday! This is my first apple product and this is what i've got. Lots of cool new features THAT U NEED TO TURN OFF to save battery!... if i only knew, shoul've done my research first...

This is my first iPhone and I heard a lot of good things. But with this battery issue, it's driving me crazy. I have already turned off most of the notification and location search. It drains about 10% per hour without using it. It made me feel like I can't rely on this phone if there is an emergency when the battery drains so quickly.

In case you all have not heard, Apple released an update last week that is supposed to fix the battery problem and some other issues with the iPhone 4S. That same update was available on my iPod touch as well and I believe you have to be using iOS5 to get it as well.

Go into your settings then click General and the hit Software Update. FYI you have to be using Wi-Fi to get the update.

I have already updated mine last week. It didn't help. My battery life actually went to 0% and shut down at 4pm yesterday. Apple needs to address this issue quickly. It doesn't make sense to carry a charger around. It's suppose to be a wireless phone.

Well I am not sure about that but I do feel your pain. I see people all the time plugging up their smartphones to charge them and that seems like the norm now a days. These phones are like portable computers and what a lot of people don't seem to realize is that various apps can contribute to battery loss or lots of apps running in the background will drain the battery too. If you watch a lot of videos on your phone that will drain the battery.

Obviously there is an issue and the folks at Apple do know about it but there are also things we the user can do to assure we get a little more battery life out of our phones.

been there done that! updated, restored, turned off apps! the only thing i havent done is to turn off my phone entirely, i guess that would save some battery eh? i was using HTC before this 4s, and my battery lasts for days. the only reason why i bought this phone is because of Siri and now i cant even ask that Siri to show me the map home while driving because my location services is turned off! me, participating in this forum is a desperate act. its not cool to go to bed and wake up like someone has used your phone for hours... leaving u with no battery at all.

I updated my Iphone 4... with 5.0.1.... now my battery drains like crazy.. what gives apple!!!! not 4S.. but 4!!!!! Its horrible!!!!

@DDuchess,

I always use my in car charger when I am using maps or GPS because I know my screen will be used for a while and I don't want to risk my batteries draining down while driving. I used to have a Droid and at first my battery would last a day or two but then it got to the point that watching a couple videos or playing a game and then updating my Facebook and Twitter would all drain the battery and its the same with the iPhone. These phones can do so much now that you darn near need to carry your charger around with you on the go now. Unless Apple swears the new iPhone 4S batteries will last X amount of hours or days, carrying a charger around with us is probably gonna have to be the way around this. I already do this now LOL!

Yeah.. The first time I set the "Reminder" to remind me when I leaving/arrive at somewhere, the battery drained significantly.

I have the same problem... it was super patch how to help 4S users 🙂 and gets angry the owners of 4

Apple hurry up, we need help - another update, please

I am running iPhone 4s on Virgin Mobile South Africa, which, depending on signal strength and set on Auto Network mode, will piggy back onto any one of two local networks, namely Vodacom or Cell C. I found extremely poor (approx 12 hours) battery life when connected to the Cell C network, but excellent battery life (approx 48 hours) when connected to the Vodacom network. After investigating this further and manually selecting each network in turn, I found that the phone was permanently connected to 3G on the Cell C network with resultant poor battery life, whilst this was not the case on the Vodacom network.