Very bad battery life on iPhone 4S after iOS 5.1.1 update

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im having the same problem also.

Me too ..

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I am having the same problem with my NEW IPhone 4S. Just wondering how a new IPhone can have this battery issue. 3% drain every 5 minutes using any app.

Considering this is my first experience with Apple,I would say that this is really dissapointing and not at all what I expected from them.

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THe same thing with me! and apparently it has 40% more battery?!!? such a disappointment.

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THe same thing with me! and apparently it has 40% more battery?!!? such a disappointment.

That's news to me, and to Apple. The battery in the 4S is essentially the same as the 4 (well, it has 5 mah more than the 4. That's about 0.3% greater capacity than the 4.

Rather than saying it's "such a disappointment," why don't you describe the problem you are having, so someone can help? Or look at the "more like this" messages to the right and see what problems others have had and what the solutions are? At last count there were roughly 15,000 posts on this subject already, read by 1.5 million users. Surely there is some wisdom that has been posted.

Onthis discussion I wouldn't say it's "very bad", it's just it seems since the last iOS 5 upgrade on my 4S the battery is worse than after the prior upgrade or so it seems

This is worth discussing. There are additional features in iOS 5 that use additional power. The biggest one is iCloud, which is a Push service, and requires both bandwidth and power if you use it. There are also random battery problems that have existed in every version of iOS, and that occur more frequently right after an upgrade (any upgrade, even iOS 2 to iOS 3 for people with long memories), so it is helpful to identify whether your additional battery drain is incremental and thus due to additional features or if it is significantly greater. If the difference is substantial (i.e., the battery lasts less than a day of average use) there may be a problem that can be resolved.

My iPhone 4S was working fine, and then recently, without any setting changes, the battery is draining very quickly - even with it not in use. I turned off the setting time zone in the system services setting of the location services as per some blogs, but it had no affect. I had a similar thing happen on my iphone 4, but after not using it for a long time, it started working normally again. The iphone gets very hot as well. Did anyone resolve this yet?

Yes, thousands of people have resolved it, and many of them posted their solutions. It isn't one solution, it is finding the errant app that is causing the drain. A forum search for "battery problems" will result in lots of hits over the past 5 years. The problems and solutions are essentially the same regardless of iOS version.

I have had the same problem (twice) with great battery life suddenly turning to awful battery life. Could go through the day without recharging and with mega usage (one of my services is QR Code Campaigns so I always demo using my phone). It went to a couple of hours of life, with high usage, before I had to recharge.

I read through the thread(s) on the iPhone 4s battery life problem and decided the first and quickest test would be to remove some of the most recent apps I had installed.

That was the problem and Life is Good (battery life that is)!

Unfortunatly the battery does drain quick but ive followed some of these methods that helped me save my battery, its not that big of a diffrence but better than before

1) charge your iphone. 100%

2)let it die completely. 0%

3)while charging, reset it by holding the sleep/wake button and home button even after it asks to turn off

4)the apple logo will appear, which means you just reset it (this does not remove any data or apps)

5) let your iphone charge completely

6) set your brightness lower

I hope this helps