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iPhone 5 battery draining very fast

I purchased my iPhone 5 64GB today, I used it for about 2 hours and a half. The battery was 98% when I purchased it. Is anyone having this difficulty as well? Please let me know....

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 9:59 PM

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Posted on Sep 21, 2012 10:41 PM

Yes, mhabashy, I am seeing my battery drain very fast throughout the day. I drained it yesterday and fully charged it overnight and it's now below 21% 8 hours later and I've hardly used it. I make sure to closes the apps when I've finished and with similar use on my iPhone 4, I never encountered such a quick drain. Looking forward to hearing from others.


iPhone 5, iOS 6

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Sep 21, 2012 10:41 PM in response to mhabashy

Yes, mhabashy, I am seeing my battery drain very fast throughout the day. I drained it yesterday and fully charged it overnight and it's now below 21% 8 hours later and I've hardly used it. I make sure to closes the apps when I've finished and with similar use on my iPhone 4, I never encountered such a quick drain. Looking forward to hearing from others.


iPhone 5, iOS 6

Sep 22, 2012 12:50 AM in response to mhabashy

I previously had this problem.


I fixed this by removing everything from notifications but my messages and phone.

Then change your mail to manual when you go into the app instead of constantly pulling.

Turn off things such as icloud which backs up your data and remove apps that use your internet connection.

Turn off the gps on the phone so it isnt tracking you.


Have to remember that its using software that has yet to be perfected and hardware that is new to the community. Consider yourself beta testing until its perfect.

Sep 22, 2012 3:42 PM in response to mhabashy

I've noticed something when the iPhone 5 is connected via wi-fi. The LAN light on my router never stops blinking rapidly when the 5 is connected to wi-fi even though I'm not running any apps. Something in the background is running through the router constantly even when idle, and I am also getting serious battery drain. I've turned off location services, reset the phone, minimized what's open etc etc....wonder if this is someone to do with Siri? As soon as I turn off wi fi, the router calms down and battery drain returns to normal...ps, it's any device I have upgraded to iOS 6 that is sowing this, not just the 5

Sep 23, 2012 11:20 PM in response to SimonMooseman

Well turning off Siri has certainly helped battery life.but Sunday is a lighter use day...thanks Simon!


But the fundamental problem remains... Apple have not sorted the battery problem and we have paid good money for a machine ( however wonderful) which we have to turn features off within, in order to keep it going !!!

Sep 24, 2012 12:22 AM in response to mhabashy

I have minimised all my notification to only sms, whatsapp, email and call. I switch off all the other items like wifi, siri, icloud. Set my email notification to manually fetch instead of push.


With all the items switched off, the battery is draining at a rate of 5% every half hour. Apple please sort this out. Battery life cant even last 1 day of work. Such a disappointment.

iPhone 5 battery draining very fast

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