iOS 6 iPhone 4s battery drain

Your workaround has worked well for me. I was getting webbookmarksd daemon crashes but by turning off Safari iCloud syncing, restricting the use of Safari and then restarting the phone I've managed to stop the daemon launching and my battery life is much better, indeed the phone is running cool again.

In between I did try a complete reinstall of iOS6 and a restore from backup, but during the restore from backup I got an error restoring the safari bookmarks and the issues appear to have been faithfully restored along with my data. It appears from the error messages as though there is some corruption or possible a file permission issue with my bookmarks on the iPhone which prevents syncing and prevents me from manually removing the bookmarks. The failed synching causes the iphone to try syncing again every minute, but as I say, the workaround is good for now.

Same thing here. Did the reboot like some suggested and it seemed to do the trick. What I noticed since the update was that I was always connected to wifi even if my phone was just on standby. Will keep an eye out for the battery again but rebooting seemed to help.

I installed IOS 6 and like others experienced immediate excess battery drain. Reading this thread this morning my IP4 dropped from 100% down to 95% in very short order.

I just did a reboot, the phone rebooted @ 98% and has since only dropped to 97%

It's as if the phone thinks the battery is dying and acts accordingly. All those with drainage issues check to see how long the phone takes to charge, maybe the battery isn't dying, the phone just thinks it is.

Beside the battery drain issue on 4s after update to iOS 6.

Im facing another problem. While any app is running on background, the auto screen lock just fail, not working! The screen will turns on forever! Which this never happen on iOS 5!

Any one else facing the same issue? THIS IS KILLING ME! APPLE, please solve battery issue as quick as possible?

And this happen on every IOS version updates? since 5?

Origibally upfraded from within the settings app on iphobe 4s OTA.

So far this worked for me.

1. Restored using iTunes and a fresh download.

2. Signed out of Facebook in the settings app( so no more tap to post)

3. Signed out if twitter in settings app.

Running beautifully. Not sure which of thev3 it was yet.

I will eventually try signing back into Facebook integration but for now I will hold off.

I have also experienced greater battery drain then normal since the iOS 6 upgrade. Went through all the settings to ensure they are the same as before the upgrade and did a hard reset holding the home and power buttons down. Doesn't seem to have helped. Battery drain is not terrible just faster then before the upgrade. I don't know if this matters but with the Siri raise to speak off if I look at the sensor through a digital camera it is blinking blue. I looked at my wife's phone (she has not upgraded yet) and the sensor is not blinking. Could this be a source of the increases battery drain?

It is no doubt that Apple has the IOS 6 battery issues with older iphone generations. My 3 months old Iphone4S was operating normal until I upgraded it to IOS 6 and I noticed the phone gots warmer than usual and the battery drained very fast while using the new 3D Maps app.

Yup. The heat is something I've noticed too. Normally my phone only gets this hot if I'm playing a game like dead trigger or heavily using GPS. Since ios6 however my phone runs hot all the time when doing any task. Deactivating twitter and fb integration made no difference to battery life

Also did the upgrade via OTA. So did a full restore today. Wiped all data and set up a new phone. As far as I can say something yet, I would say that it hasn't helped. After iTunes finished syncing, I launched a bunch of apps for setting them up (and closed them again after I set them up). In half an hour my iPhone 4S lost 18%. Did a reboot now and haven't done anything special with it yet and the battery has only lost 1% in the last 20 minutes. I will post again tomorrow. Hope really this fixed it... PLS Apple fix this ASAP!!!

Ditto. Same settings but major battery drain. Will I never learn? NEVER update Apple software when first released!!! Of course they practically forced this update on iPhone owners. I am starting to think that Apple is losing it. Has anybody tried the new earbuds? I ordered two pair and THEY ARE AWFUL!! Awkward, clunky and uncomfortable. A definite misstep.

Same problem here, battery ***** after iOS6 update on 4s... I've tried all the tips listed on this thread and nothing! I even tried downgrading last night but it appears Apple has stopped signing 5.1.1.1 so we're stuck until Apple gets off their *** and fixes it! How long will that take, a month!!

My phone is still having the same problem; accelerated battery drain. There is definitely something wrong with the software. I think my iPhone 4S battery isn't actually draining this fast, but the phone is telling it it is. It charges back up to 100% faster than it did in iOS 5 which leads me to believe that the actually % the phone shows is inaccurate. Does anyone else think the same?

I've tried pretty much everything in these and other posts - fresh install, restored from backup, disabled traffic etc. in location services, deleted facebook and twitter accounts, stopped Latitude using location services, deleted and recreated all accounts, reset all settings, hard reboot by pressing home button and power button for 10 seconds, turned off passbook and safari sync in iCloud and even turned off wifi entirely.

And still the battery is draining several percentage points every hour.

This is just unbelievable. How can Apple have put this through 4 beta versions and still made such a complete disaster of their coding? Someone needs to get fired for this; maybe then they'll pay more attention next time......

This feels like an issue that won't be explicitly addressed, but fixed in a 6.x software update. Similar to those that experienced a pop up message error when trying to sync their iphone via wifi-sync. Downside is this took about 6-8 months for Apple to sort out though and there was no mention of it in any changelogs. 😟

Same problems with 4S. Same attempts at a fix. Took over to Apple Store yesterday. They claimed this was the first they were hearing of it. The genius did a clean re-install of IO6 and firmware. This wiped out all of my settings and music. Phone worked fine all afternoon with no battery issues. Genius also confirmed that battery was healthy per their diagnostic tools.

Came home and restored my last back up. When I woke up this morning the battery was completed drained from a 100% charge, (I usually lose 25% or so over night). Recharged to 100% again ealier. Now losing 1% every ten minutes while phone is ostensibly in stand by mode.

I am going to try a fresh reset and then add apps and music back on one at a time.

I'm wondering if it's the mail application. I was having real problems getting to multiple acocunts this morning.

This is not Steve Jobs' Apple.