A better iPhone 4s battery life

I switched from samsung to iphone and on the 1st day, am VERY disappointed with the battery drain. Same phone usage pattern and significantly low battery expectency.

And all these suggestions to turn this off that off....please... i paid a bucket full of money to dumb down this device back to 'Western electric model 500' phone? I am not interested in scale down suggestions...I am interested in a fix to the under-performing device.

I was very excited about my first iphone and all that excitement drained away, coz of the awful battery lfie that it offered. I had to keep closing all the apps, disbaling so many features, did a restore as suggested in these forums, but nothing seems to work. I have great respect for apple, but this new expensive product has made my life worse , instead of working the other way around. I charged it to 100% and shut off all the apps, but still the battery drained in 4 hours, without any activity. I think Apple should be honest about the specs or should have performed rigorous tests to correct this big glitch in such a famed product. I cant be happy anymore, as I wasted all my savings over the past few months on this piece of crap. I am thinking of returning my Iphone to the store and go back to my older SAMSUNG GALAXY Smartphone.

Agree--battery life truly disappointing! I've had each iPhone so far and this is noticeably worse!! The suggestions are just silly and smack of absolutely poor testing by Apple. Truly disappointing for this company. Turndown brightness, disable time zone, turnoff diagnostics,turn off notifications...truly, this stuff should have been tested. Hopefully somebody at Apple is taking notice.

Great...just disable my calendar and the phone will last????

Go to location service in the system app. Then go to the bottom and open system services. then turn off setting time zone. This should work until apple updates os5

Battery life is really bad , I have to charge everyday by 1600 ( charging time 1600--> 0600am), hope is only a software bug not a hardware problem or I am thinking of returning it and wait...

already adjusted the time zone thing...really not that much better...my feeling based on my normal usage is that the 4S runs out about 40% faster than the 4 that I previously have...although I've had people tell me that the same happened to their 4 when they updated to iOS5--apparently the real culprit. Disappointing to be sure. Hopefully Apple updates soon--although I still dont understand how this escaped the testing process!!!!

It has been unpredictable for me.

-- My iPhone 4 when upgraded to iOS 5 started showing signs of reduced battery life. It was down to 50% by 1200 noon....with minimal usage

- I picked up my iPhone 4s and now I am noticing an average drop of 1% per couple of minutes. I do have exchange sync...but I have also ensured that I am not runnign many apps. I have disabled "Timezone--location based services", but that does not seem to help. I am beginning to wonder if this is in the notifications feature of iOS 5.

Thie morning between 630 and 700, the charge drained from 100% to 88%....unbelievable and I am not HAPPY.

This was a problem with the iphone 4. We spent hours in the apple store and online trying to convince apple that the problem was real. They were in full denial mode. It got so frustrating that I lost it, a little , because of the arrogant attitude of the store employees and me and my kids got booted out of the store.

Turns out we were right... Makes me question my loyalty to Apple!

I too was having poor battery drain with my 4s as well as only charging to 97% overnight! I was running the phone out of the box with iCloud, Exchange and Gmail accounts.

Having browsed several posts on the subjects, I reset my 4s to a "New Phone", added only my iCloud account, disabled the Time Zone location services. Having used Battery Magic to fully charge the phone I got 100% charge and 48 hours with only slightly less than normal usage. A good result I felt.

Adding the Exchange account reduced this to around 38 hours which I thought was not too bad considering my HTC Desire needed an overnight charge every day.

Eventually I thought it had all stabilised and loaded by full music library and selected apps making sure all auto settings, location services and notifications were off for the new apps. So basically I felt that I should still get the 38 hour life, possibly a bit less because I would use the phone a little more. Wrong. I now just about get 24 hours.

I refuse to believe that filling "disk" space would have an effect but it certainly feels like that to me. Perhaps iOS keeps tabs on the "disk" to reduce corruptions and to keep sectors clean?

Just adding my experience to the collective and I am only mising my Android a little having moved to iOS!

Apple is working on a software update to address the battery draining.

It appears that there's a bug in the process in iOS 5 to determine your time zone automatically.

They have already seeded iOS 5.0.1 to developers and it should be available to end users in the coming weeks.

I upgraded my ipone 4 to ios5 and had the same issue. I did the same thing everybody did and turned all the cool fetures off, I even went to apple. I could litterally watch the batter drop. I started looking again and found a new feature on ios 5 called diagnostics & usage under settings, general, about. If you click on it and changed to don't send rather than automatic send your battery life will be back to normal. I looked up the reoports it was sending down where it says diagnostic & usage data, and found my phone was sending out around 200 reports a day back to apple. This is what was draining my battery and most likely yours too. Apple uses this to help diagnose problems with the ios and apps. Good Luck!

Charged my phone to 93% around 4pm, it's 9.09pm and its down to 57%? I expected so much more from Apple, maybe they can fix this glitch, albeit known, this is what you get with HYPE with a new product and their own greed. Thankfully I have full faith for now that APPLE can overcome adversity and come out with a patch that will reduce battery usuage without people's fault. Don't let me down APPLE!!! Keep in mind heard DROID is even worse so....

So , this is what we should be getting ... If not

There's a bug and hope we get a software update

Very soon ... in mean time turn off push notifications on all

Apps except a few main ones ..

Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery

Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter

Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)

Standby time: Up to 200 hours

Internet use: Up to 6 hours on 3G, up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi

Video playback: Up to 10 hours

Audio playback: Up to 40 hours