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iOS 6 battery life terrible

iPad 3 updated to iOS 6 and as usual it was 100% charged when I went to bed. Woke up and battery totally drained. I'm guessing iOS 6.1 is needed ASAP?

iPad, iOS 6, Battery issues

Posted on Sep 22, 2012 12:21 AM

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Sep 22, 2012 5:15 AM in response to Daeve

JUst wanted to add that I'm having the same problem and its rendered my iPad 3 and iPhone 4 useless. I charged my iOS 6 running iPhone last night to 100%, unplugged it at around 4:30 and by 8 it had shut off. The iPad drained 40% overnight. Note I was not using either at the time and not that it matters but brightness is lowest it goes and there is good service so it wasn't searching for service. I have never had such issues with either product before.

Sep 22, 2012 10:16 AM in response to Daeve

I see no noticeable change in battery life with iOS 6 on both my iPhone 4 or iPad 3. I have seen a rare occasional increase in battery drain on my iPhone in the past with iOS 5 which I wouldn't be surprised to see it in iOS 6 as well. What fixes it for me is to close all apps by holding the Home button then hold an icon at the bottom till they wiggle then tap the x closing them all. Then restart by holding the Sleep button till "Slide to power off" appears starting it up by holding the Sleep button till you see the Apple logo once it has completely shut down.


I suspect something goes wrong with either the OS or one of the apps that can cause an increase in the battery drain. Closing all the apps may not be necessary but it forces me to clean things up once in a while. This same fix has helped a few friends who thought their batteries were going bad on their iPhones as well.

Sep 22, 2012 4:02 PM in response to Daeve

Yep, my battery life on 4S is now also terrible. It's doing exactly what it did on the IOS5 update - saying usage time is exactly the same as standby time, despite it not being used once during the night. This was eventually fixed by a later update to IOS5 so I guess we just have to wait for yet another fix to a problem I thought Apple had sorted.

Sep 22, 2012 7:26 PM in response to Daeve

I'm not seeing issues during standby, but I can say that batter life has been cut BIGTIME on iPad2, iPad3, iPhone4 and iPhone4s. I can also say that our new iPhone5's aren't getting anywhere near what Apple is reporting for battery performance. There's a big, big problem. In the past, it seemed to be that Apple had iOS reporting all kinds of crap back to them in the initial release of iOS 4 and 5, but I just checked Settings > About > Diagnostics & Usage and not only is it set not to send that information to apple, but there's almost no data there, so that's not the problem this time around...


I hope this gets fixed! With standard use that would get me 1.5 days without a charge on my 4s with 5X. Now I can't get through half a day with an iPhone 5.


It's broken for sure.

iOS 6 battery life terrible

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