Q: iOS 6 iPhone 4s battery drain

My 4S has battery drain issue after iOS 6 upgrade as well and I went into Location Services and disabled the apps that I don't use. I looked for the apps with the purple arrows next to it which meant that it used my location recently. Hope this does it.

Can all of you who are experiencing battery issues keep an eye on your usage time vs standby time under settings>general>usage. My usage time goes up even when the phone is not being used. In the past, I have run into issues where standby and usage times were the same and was able to resolve the issue by resetting the settings. However, with ios 6, that doesn't seem to work. I think the best way to test to see if you're also having this problem is to check your usage time, don't use the phone or 5 to 10 minutes, and check the usage time again. Is it the same as it was the first time you checked or has it increased?

Me too. Hardly used my iPhone 4 and it completely drained the battery in one day without hardly using it. However; my iPad 3 wasn't so bad, almost 'normal'  

Godspeed

John Hately

updated iphone 4s with ios 6 is worth the battery does not last more than anything, with all services disabled nonbarriva evening. Apple more and more disappointing or market strategies to buy iphone 5? Apple six incorrect, my iphone I paid 900 euro!

I have tried every fix on this forum. Reboot using off button and standby button, reset using settings. Turned off every location finder except find my phine as i may need that. I can't plug in to laptop and use iTunes as my laptop is on the other side of the world. iPad is ok but iPhone 4S, hardly any usage, just went from 100% to 10% in 4 hours. My son has iPhone 4 and his is fine. Why isn't there an app where we can see what is actually using the battery. That would be worth a fortune!

What use is an iPhone if you have to turn everything off?

Can you use iTunes on multiple pcs?

I had that issue the last few weeks on ios5.1.1 but ios6 fixed it. About the only thing it fixed!

Interesting... I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 6 and the stand by time has been alright. I got the iPhone 5 on Friday and it drained really quickly that day and died that evening. It was fully flat and left it fully charge over night and I haven't used it flat out today, just a bit of browsing and a few phone calls and it is down to 37%! Thought the batteries on these were supposed to be even better? Guess it will drain again tonight and fully re-charge over night to see if it builds up. I'll hard reset it now but any other suggestions?

I had the same problem on my 4s, rolled it back to 5.1 and all is good. Will wait a while before I upgrade again.

Actually I did a hard reset and the stand by on the iPhone5 seems to be heaps better!

MMY battery dieing fast after update yesterday 6.

whats going on??

I can confirm, that deleting the Facebook app and sighing out Facebook account in my iPhone preferences solved the battery problem for me! Actually the drain problem started when I installed the app and singed in my accaunt.

With the Facebook my battery goes from 100% to 90 just in half an hour, now it looses about 2 per cent every hour and that is much better result :-)

I have the same problem.

After updating from 5.1.1 to 6.0, my iphone 4s drains battery very quickly, about 20-30% faster than on 5.1.1 with the same settings.

I've tried to restore my iphone, restore as a new device, reset all setiings, restore from DFU mode and nothing helped.

So, Apple, please fix this terrible BUG and solve our problems!

I'm also experiencing horrible battery drain. I've tried all the "tricks" and it's definatly something to do with the upgrade. Apple needs to address this ASAP. The same thing happened with IOS 5. I thought these things were supposed to be worked out in beta testing?

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.

Thanks a lot! Most greatful as I think this solved the problem for me.