Q: A better iPhone 4s battery life

Go to SETTINGS ...LOCATION SERVICES ...all the way to the bottom of the page ...SYSTEM SERVICES ...SETTING TIME ZONE -> OFF   Problem Solved!! Whilst you're about it switch on Status Bar Icon so you can see when it's active.

Tried turning off all applications, shutting down locate, and turning time zone off.  Battery almost completely drained in less than 4 hours.  Then, found that there was a 2 day old outgoing message in my outbox for email.  Phone was continually trying to send.  Deleted message and phone is behaving much better with battery life.

in standby mode my iphone 4s. uses 1% every 1hour and 10mins & i think that bad lol.feel sorry for you lol

I heard about this (turning time zone support off) in a number of places and did it, but no joy, battery life was still getting eaten up.

But that caused me to then think about the weather app/wdiget constantly checking my location whenever I opened notification centre.  I know from elsewhere that location checking can be a big drain on battery.

....hallo all !

Same problem. Turned all off, time zone, location, app, etc. Nothing works. Battery is down after 6 hours normal use....:,( hope they will fix it soon, a normal usage of the 4s is not possible.....

Apple have announced that they are releasing a software update that fixes a bug causing battery issues:

http://allthingsd.com/20111102/apple-some-ios5-bugs-prompting-iphone-battery-iss ues/

(announcement was made 2nd November)

....thanks :) in god wie trust ... ;)

I have an iphone 4s and I have also discovered that in the email settings, selecting to 'fetch manually' has no affect on emails being pushed to your phone whenever they are received.

I tried this after randomly getting an email alert today, and wondering how it happened when i didnt refresh my emails, and I wasnt even using my phone at the time!

I checked that the main option for 'fetch manually' was selected, and sent myself an email from my computer.. within seconds my phone vibrated telling me I had an email.

Instead, you have to go into advanced menu and select fetch manually on each of your email accounts!

This is clearly draining the battery faster than usual and I recommend everyone checks their advanced options if you prefer to manually fetch your emails and increase your battery life.

This is my first experience having a smartphone and it's been pretty annoying. I have to carry a portable battery to make my phone life last throughout the day...and I thought this would increase my productivity!

When will the fix for this awful batery situaiton come out?

When you take the time to troubleshoot the cause and fix it.

I've tried everything in the posts and still doesn't fix the problem--I have done my due diligence and now I'm looking for the reported fix--when will it arrive.  Has anyone heard?

This helped a lot for me, when nothing else made much difference.  If you use Facebook, make sure that in Settings/Location Services that GPS is turned OFF for Facebook.  Even if Facebook isn't currently active, it's location awareness really seems to drain the battery.

Dana

Apple does not announce point releases in advance, and in this case they may not know themselves. They will need to complete testing and verify that it really does fix whatever the problem is or problems are; it isn't clear at all what is causing it, because so many different fixes have been identified by users.