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Iphone 4s Battery life WORSE with upgrade. Anyone else seeing same?

I upgraded my new iPhone 4s today and now my battery life is so much worse. I can literally watch it drain by the minute. Is anyone else experiencing this?

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Nov 10, 2011 4:44 PM

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Nov 11, 2011 8:38 AM in response to debrafrommclean

I was not experiencing a battery issue until I upgraded to 5.0.1 last night. So far this morning, my phone has been off the charger for 2 hours, and my battery is down to 90%, and all I've done is read a couple of e-mails and checked-in on FourSquare. This is terrible!

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Nov 11, 2011 10:14 AM in response to debrafrommclean

I have a iPhone 4s with quite bad battery life coming from the iPhone4

So with the update 5.0.1 I thought the battery life would be better but it's actually worse, I hope apple fix this issue fast. Why do new iPhones have problems e.g iPhone4 (antenna problems), iPhone4s battery life.

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Nov 11, 2011 10:34 AM in response to debrafrommclean

Same here, did the update to 5.0.1 last night (11.10.2011) and finished out the day, then charged to 100% overnight. Unplugged from charger this morning at 7 AM and at 8 AM when I got to work it was 86% with little usage (checked email for a minute or two). Whats going on here? The battery on my Andriod phone was better than this! I had high hopes coming to iPhone that I would get better battery life, but my dreams have been crushed. I still have the battery tweaks in place from 5.0 (timezone update off, fetch email, etc.)

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Nov 11, 2011 10:43 AM in response to debrafrommclean

I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0. The batter life was questionable at best. It would drop with minimal usage. Nothing like the iPhone 4 with 4.X. I upgraded last night to 5.0.1 and noticed it is dropping just as fast. What is going on Apple? This entire upgrade experience has been a nightmare. So disappointing. I hope they release another update soon that actually addresses the battery issue.

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Nov 11, 2011 11:08 AM in response to debrafrommclean

My iphone 4s has reasonable battery life before. After updating IOS yesterday, I too noticed faster battery drainage. Had the phone fully charged at 8am. Went to work, few text messages, no phone calls, accessed apps twice for 5 minutes and 10 hours down the line, the battery is low 😟 Hopefully apple come up with a solution quick.

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Nov 11, 2011 11:39 AM in response to vincentiphone4s

I'm in the same boat, the battery is getting chewed on as bad if not worse. Now here's the real kicker, my bandwidth on the 3g has dropped significantly. The downloads are atrocious and the uploads aren't much better. If anyone happens to have speedtest.net app I'd ask that you run it with wifi off and see if you get poor performance.

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Nov 11, 2011 12:22 PM in response to todd from brampton

I updated my IOS yesterday and it looks like its worsned my condition.

As soon as I unplugged my Iphone 4s it reduced the battery to 98% and its been discharging ever since at a higher rate (compared before the update).

I dont want to uncheck or disable anything more.If i try disable anything more it will lose its status as Smart phone.

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