iOS 6 battery life

And Google Translate says,

'Why do I have to find a solution after I bought a product that balio € 700?
And who is this "install as a new iphone", as long as they lose then redo all imformacion someone pays?
Go apple response!'

Anyway, the reboot, recommended by tracyscottbrooks, actually worked.

For some reason, retrieving any backed up information through "Restore from Backup" or updating the software directly to iOS 6 causes some type of battery overuse.

I tried "Restore from Backup" after resetting my iPhone through iTunes, but it did not fix the battery drainage issue.

So, after "Setup as New [iDevice]," just restore your information from iCloud.

Also, by using "Setup as New [iDevice]," my custom labels in Contacts, when choosing to add a new contact, actually came back, along with "Add Custom Label."

Again, if choosing to restore the iDevice during the earlier stages of the process - choosing "Restore from Backup" instead of "Setup as New [iDevice]" - your battery and Contacts labels issues may not be resolved.

However, the phone is still vibrating when choosing an alarm sound. But the phone does NOT vibrate in Sounds > Sounds and Vibration Patterns > [choose any from that list] > [page up to Vibration, and select a vibration pattern]. None of the standard choices give a demo of their vibration patterns.

Regardless as to whether or not a direct iOS update is causing the battery drainage, the entire software needs to be more...polished.

Read my post-Set up your phone as a new phone and do not restore from iCloud back-up. Sync your apps in iTunes prior if you want to save some time by not having to download them again from the purchased section of the App store, but once you do this you will notice remarkable improvements. Make sure you also drain your battery and recharge fully to recondition it. When you go through your settings, optimize the battery by adjusting the obvious-Brightness (leave on Auto but drop a bit), Push (Turn it off when you can and fetch every 15 min, close apps running in the background, etc... Just look through all your settings, do not shut off everything (or why have an iPhone if you cannot use it, It works....getting better battery life than my 4s running ios5.1. Turn of Siri if you do not use it, and be concious of when you are in an enviroment when your phone is constantly trying to find a signal...if you have no bars and are going to be there for a while, switch over to airplane mode...I personally have done noting but reset my phone, and set it up as a new phone. I have all my apps running, using it to make calls, check email, and even using battery intensive apps such as Maps with directions and find my friends, and I am no longer losing anything noticible on standby and am getting about a 2-4% loss with a 20 min call. I was losing about 10% per hour on Stand By.

Tracyscottbrooks... I know you wrote a question about the alarm and the vibrate, but do you know why my phone will inform me that I have a new message twice instead of once? I only want one notice, not two. Does that happen to you ?

And I took your advice with setting up as a new phone, but I forgot to back up before I did this, so I lost all of my content. My phone's battery seems to be better, but as someone else posted, if everything has to be turned off, what is the point of having these options to begin with? I don't want to put music on my phone because i feel like that will drain the battery completely. And has anyone bought books and read them from your iphone? Does that eat up a chunk of battery on your phone?

I have had iOS 6 installed for 3 days now. I originally had the battery life problem, losing 1% per minute.

I did an update through iTunes rather than OTA because the majority of the problems I read about had been OTA, but it seems to be an issue with either form of install.

As I mentioned battery life was awful.

I turned off everything I didn't need in Locations, Notifications, Services, Adds, etc. I restarted my phone. Battery still dying quickly.

Did a reset all settings to get it back to factory defaults, reset everything AGAIN. Still bad battery problems.

Decided to let the battery run down and do an overnight charge. That did the trick. I am now getting better battery life than I did with 5.1.1, which was about a day and a half between charges. I use my phone a lot or I would have gotten even better life than that.

I have noticed that when I am on Wifi the battery seems to drop a bit faster than when I was on iOS 5.1.1. Hopefully Apple will put out an update soon.

@BF10 If you only want one alert when you get a message look in Settings => Notifications => Messages and scroll down to Repeat Alert. You can have from zero to ten reminders.

Thank You!!!

same issue here.

upgraded my iphone 4 to iOS 6 and battery life is incomprehensibly worse: I left my iPhone 4 in stand-by mode on my bedside table with all applications closed (none in background) and alarm on 7 a.m.

gone to bed at 1 a.m. with battery charge at 54%.

when alarm woke me up (6 hours later) battery charge was at 2%!!! (5 more minutes and the alarm did not rang)

is it a joke? 52% charge less in 6 hours in stand-by mode and all applications closed??

I'm an apple fan, day by day I undeerstand why people change their phone to an android one. I don't want to do that, but that's not the way to.

update it as soon as possible and please, at least for this issue, consider iPhone 4 users important as iPhone 4s or iPhone 5 users. We are still here.

why iPhone 4 users does not have SIRI? because of battery life.

why iPhone 4 users does not have voice guide on turn by turn mapps? because of battery life.

if this is you best battery performnce give my iPhone 4 SIRI and voice guide! I won't change my phone as you wish.

try to deactivate the feature "Limit Ad Tracking" in Settings->General->About->Advertising->Limit Ad Tracking=OFF

I solved the same problem (sorry, it's a german post):

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4367266

it's already off.

Wouldn't you want limit ad tracking turned ON for privacy? I'm still having huge problems with battery drain on my 4s after installing IOS 6. Come on Apple, please fix this now. I was waiting in a 5 but now thinking Android is the way to go.

agree!

3G signal si extremely worse!

iPhone 4 with H3G Italy, I loose 3G signal all the time!

very bad work Apple, very very bad work!

neverwinter more!

every time I upgraded my phone I hard somme problems, but never like tris time.

never more Apple!

App Store IS unusable in iPhone 4.

Game Center is always online, even if I log it off. whenever I log into App Store also Game Center log in again.

I don't want to use Game Center! I don't mind it at all!

FIX!

FIX!

FIX!

to fix the issue of poor battery life i was told to close background apps, location services, wifi and do hard reset....still i have worse battery life than IOs 5.1.1

very sad

BTW i do not need a reply to this. there is no solution other than buy an Iphone 5. Ive come to peace with that fact.

also, BTW, i will not buy an Iphone 5