iOS 6 battery life terrible

Absolutely an iOS 6 problem. Software just doesn't stop working or chg dramatically w/o an event. The event for everyone was upgrading to iOS 6.

The challenge is recreating the problem because the usage patterns are all over the place. In the scheme of things, it's not that bad for apple because the number of successes outweigh the failures considerably. You could almost say its collateral damage.

I fortunately got my iPhone 4 fixed by restoring to new from iTunes and then again from iCloud. I then upgraded my iPad 3 and have had no issues. In both cases, the battery life is now actually better, so there's hope.

I don't expect an answer from apple. They have never made any response in the past when this happened with the previous models. I was lucky this time. I just won't upgrade anymore just in case.

Unfortunately I have not AppleStore at my place.Can somebody with the problem iOS6 battery life go to them to get finally ONE for all of us solution from Genius Bar?

iPad 2 user wifi only - very noticeable drop in battery life since ios6 upgrade.

Here is the solution that apparently (almost 1 day and counting) worked for me. You can find it here:

http://tidbits.com/article/13303

I used the last method given in the article.

1) plug phone into USB port on computer

2) Turn off iPhone

3) Hold down home and sleep/wake button for 10 sec.

4) Continue to hold home button 5 sec more, until iTunes says it detects a phone in recovery mode

5) Screen should be blank.

6) Choose set up as new iPhone.

The phone will be restored with only the Apple apps. Then you have to go about the chore of restoring all songs, apps, etc. to your phone. In my case, it kept its name, but I needed to set all the preferences as I wanted them, and rejoin my wifi network.

Last night, the phone only lost 3% of its battery power, whereas the night before, it went from full to empty in about 7 hrs. I did have trouble restoring my contacts through the wired connection, but when I had it sync contacts through wifi, it worked perfectly. All of the above was done on a Verizon iPhone 4, on a Mac running ML and the latest iteration of iTunes.

Hope this helps.

Thanks David. I'll try do that after sync with iTunes tomorrow.

Is any advice from clever Apple mans? Wonder that no issue from Apple

about this real problem with iOS6 battery leak.

iPad 3 Cellular 64GB gets about 1% drop a minute IN STANDBY after iOS 6 upgrade. Very unacceptable...

I have the same problem. On our recent trip to Munich we've bought a new iPhone 4 8gb for my wife. When we got home in a couple of days, I unboxed it, plugged in and proceed to install iOS6 wirelessly. On the next day we went to the carrier office for microSIM, and my wife started to actually use the phone. Except for it won't last even a half of a day: charged up to 100% overnight, drops to 80ish in about two hours, and after dinner break it is already way below 30-40 percents only to discharge completely at 5 or 6 pm.

And all this while every 3G, WiFi, BT, geolocation or even cellular data is turned off. She just made a couple of calls, so all other time it was in standby. I saw this myself in the evening, you can hold it in your hand and look how battery percentage drops. Also the phone is getting hot while screen is lit or when it charges up.

We don't have an apple store in our country, so I can't get any official support. I started digging in the internet and found various solutions, none of which were working. Today I wiped the phone completely in the morning, restoring only contacts from icloud, disabled everything I could find, and my wife went to work with the device. Sadly, it didn't help.

But now (about half an hour ago) before sleep I found one thing that I've missed: in the settings for safari there is an option to save links for Reading list to read them while offline, and it uses cellular data. I turned it off and guess what? Since then battery remains at 100%. I will leave the iphone off the charger for tonight and post an update in the morning.

PS Also, I have a wifi-only ipad2 and it works perfectly fine on iOS 6.

great, but I've had "save links for Reading list to read them while offline" off from the start

I charge my ipad once a day before going to sleep when its at 30 - 40% around 2 AM then I unplug it from the outlet at 7 AM when its at 100%

Just got off phone with " highest level "apple support and she stated she had never heard of an iOS 6 battery drain problem. I could live with the mistakes, but apple has given up customer support and gone to denial. I have about 7 k of brand new apple stuff that is useIess without honest support.

Same issue since ios6 update with my ipad3

When in use it even with a powerplug, the pad runs out of battery.

This is very annoying because this pad is 3weeks old, and I can see 1% lose in 5min

Fix this !!!

have we gone straight to "AOL support", without even hitting "Microsoft" support ????

I'm seeing this on the generic media now as part of the iOS6 problem set

Well, in 8 a.m. it was at 83%, which is definitely better than before, but not as nearly good as it should be.

Well, I'd been thru all the suggestions (except full restore as new), and saw a new suggestion in a news story:

I was using LTE, and only getting 2 bars at home, which is where I have been. I turned off the LTE, and let it go 3G. I get 3 or 4 bars in 3G.

The phone has been in standby for 7.5 hours, and still says 100%. It definitely was not working that way before. I think the patch to fix the problem going on cellular instead of staying on wifi may also have helped (but I had a full day with only that before turning the LTE off).

Now, I was getting really horrible battery on LTE, and I think it should work better than that, unless you are really thrashing around, on/off LTE to 3G, which wasn't my case. It stayed at two bars, and never lost LTE. But see if this has an impact for yous.

So, it may have been the LTE banging the power with only two bars, although the phone has not really been hot. It is a new iphone5, and was not upgraded from an older model.

Now, the iPad3 has cellular, but it has never been turned on, so still don't know what to do with that.