5.0.1 update--even worse battery life

@jimmackunusa - LMAO at your pocket warmer statement! I'm cracking up. Yes I feel your pain. Steve Jobs must be rolling over in his grave.

I completely understand where your coming from, literally my iPhone has to be plugged in every couple hours, I can sit looking at my home screen watching the percentage go down, this is with ICloud and all the location services disabled

5.01 did not help my battery drain on an ipad 2 3G/Wifi. I am not impressed and i found the same think that after i installed it it seemed tohold the 100% for a while and I thought it was fixed but now it is just as bad as before. Does anyone know how to complain directly to apple?

Until I updated the iOS on my iphone 4 a few days ago, I had no problems whatsoever with battery, iPod, Safari browser, apps. Now I have problems. I wish I had not allowed the iOS to update.

iPhone 4 goes from 65% to dead sitting unused overnight. iPad 2 has dropped 5% just navigating to this page and typing this message. APPLE - NOT ACCEPTABLE. You need to push 5.0 back out to replace 5.0.1 - I need to be able to USE my phone...!

Took suggestion: drained the battery. Recharge didn't take a whole of time. iPhone 4 unplugged for 2 hours now and I'm only down to 92%. That fix worked for me. And I didn't change my settings or apps. Thanks!

I am using an iPhone 4S. After I take my phone off the charge it looses 4%-6% in about 8 minutes. I have to charge my phone twice a day for it to last the entire day. I have never experienced this issue on my previous iPhone 4 (4.3.3). I hope Apple will address this issue as soon as possible.

Well, i just bought the new Iphone 4S at the launch day here in Portugal and for now... i'm reallydisappointed with the battery of the phone.. i spent 600€ on a mobile phone in order to use all the apps, games and use internet with quality everywhere and for now every time i do something like just check my email i saw the % of the battery drops fast and its not acceptable. Its a lot of money for not use this! And with the 5.0.1 update its worst. For eg. last night i went (8pm) out with fully charged battery and when i came home (3am) the battery has 56% and i dont even touch it. Like i said, not acceptable :| Pls do something and fast!

The luster is coming off. We have a huge software problem any competent test program should have caught and now a Nano recall? Wake up Apple if you don't want to be RIM. The death knell was Jobs incredibly pathetic comment on Antennagate. When told people lost reception when holding the phone a certain way he said not to hold it that way? I though Jobs and Apple were WAY better than that. I thought their attention to detail and quality control were not only world class but set the world class. You better get your act together and get someone in there who gets it soon or you will fall fast.

Welcome Apple to being alarge company with large company issues, large company politics and large company BS. Stop, take a breathe, not only see but focus on the elephant in the room and fix it - completely and quickly. It starts with your obviously pathetic testing program.

And don't think by my comments I am an Apple basher. I use their products. I am just extremely disappointed that the one American company I thought actually got it- apparently does not.

I want to go back to ios 5, now I'm in iOS 5.0.1 in a iPhone 4s and the battery is draining faster :( common apple my first iPhone and it has problems I also have an iPod touch and the battery doesn't by affected by the software upgrade

Im not going to go back and read the last 32 pages, because I dont have the time to do that. But I have read a few of these posts and will tell you that I updated my phone to the new software, like I always do. From previous experience in also having the other 4 iPhones, I have a lot of experience with iPhone issues, and I post to many blogs and write to a few others.

I learned a few years ago when I had a little issue with my 3G, I made an appointment at the Genius Bar, and talked extensively with a "Genius" about iPhone battery life. At this time, I was told that the iPhone battery meter is nothing but a series of 17 pictures controlled by the operating system, and that sometimes the operating system controlls the pictures incorrectly. In order to "calibrate" your pictures with the operating system, its necessary to run the phone down until it completely shuts off. Not until it gets to 1% but until the phone shuts itself off. I did this last night, after only owning the phone 48 hours and I will tell you that the last 3% of the battery lasted over an hour and 10 minutes and this was with Extreme use. Upon killing the battery and charging it completely, the battery "picture" went from 13 minutes going down 5% to 28 minutes of heavy use and 48 minutes at standby before it went from 100% to 99% I will be testing this more. But for the people that havent done this first step, I would suggest you try this.

Such a disapointment Apple. I bought the iphone 4s with my hard earn money only to have to put up with this battery crap.

Apple said that they're fixed the battery bug in 5.0.1. To my dismay after installing the update, my battery life is now worsen.

I've mention this issue to all my friends and families.

They definitely staying away from your new iphone 4s product until this issue gets solve!

I agree, I had no problems with my battery life before the update and now it's draining my battery significantly, it's like it's on hyper speed drain. I don't like this new update at all. I believe Apple made everything worse with this update.

Got my 4S a few days ago with 5.0. I'm getting about half a day's worth of moderate usage (maybe a bit more, but not a full day). Upgraded to 5.0.1, and it's not any worse, but it's not any better either. I lost almost 10% overnight (about 10 hours), with the WiFi off (I read that the WiFi on idle will consume more power than 3G on idle), and it was fetching email every hour, but doing nothing else. That's about double the 5% it should loose with 200 hours of standby.

Karma, maybe, for laughing at my friend's Evo 4G battery.

I think the percentage meter might be broken in iOS 5.0.1

I wanted to let my battery drain down so I could do a full charge. Using the phone normally I drained it down to about 5%. At that point I did a bunch of things to drain it till the phone turns off. It quickly dropped to 1% and then just sat there. I spent about 15 minutes doing things like mapping (GPS), downloading, etc; pretty much doing things that should kill the battery very quickyly, but the phone stayed at 1%.

Finally I gave up and just let it sit doing nothing and went to bed. In the morning it was off. I then charged it up to 100% (took under 2 hours).

As far as I know the phone should shut itself down when it hits 1% battery life left. The fact that it was running for at least 20 minutes at "1%" tells me the displayed battery indicator is wrong.