iPhone 5 battery life is way worse than iPhone 4

Did 6.1 fix the battery issue people had with 6.0.2?

Nothing changed on my end. Took the phone off the charger at 3am. (100%) left the phone in sleep mode for the entire time. Didn't even pick it up to check the time. At 8am, the battery was down to 71% and said I had 2hrs, 40min of usage. I NEVER TOUCHED THE PHONE!

Do you use iCloud? After an upgrade, reset, etc., the phone will spend a lot of time syncing and backing up via iCloud. I would suggest leaving the phone settings alone for a couple fo days and see if things settle out.

cocktail5555, was your battery life OK under 6.0.1? Also, I suggest getting System Activity Monitor to see if there is a runaway process. The normal CPU usage on an iPhone 5 should be about 2-5%.

I had the beta 5 installed so I am a day ahead of most and had time to let things "settle in". Yes, I use iCloud but that shouldn't make a difference. I've used iCloud on all my devices with no trouble.

I did a full restore, set up phone as new, then synced over iCloud just my contacts. Then synced everything through iTunes. Charged the phone fully and and used the rest of the night. Used it all day yesterday only at home over wifi. My iCloud backup was taken and everything in regular working order(except battery life).

Charged the phone before bed last night. Like I stated, unplugged at 3am with full 100% charge and when I woke up at 8am it had dropped 30%. The phone should only drop maybe 3-5% max in that time with absolutely NO usage.

Here are my intial obsersvations using beta 5. I'm at 50% with 4.5hr useage and 21 hours of standby on a mix of both wifi and 4G. I've had pretty good usage stats in the past, but I've never had such great standby simultaneously.

It's only been a day but so far it appears that there is a marked improvement of drain related to cellular connection. Hope this continues and that everyone sees an improvement

Not trying to challenge you at all. Just relating what I have seen with the i5. My wife and I both have them from the first day of release. Every time we do an update, we see usage spike for a couple of days, then settle out.

I also manage the wireless program for my company and have over 30 i5's out there now. Nobody is screaming about some of the horrible battery life experiences that many in here have reported, but that's not to say that people arent experiencing issues and not speaking up. I would just expect that with well over 30 handsets out there, spread all over the country, I would be getting SOME complaints.

My phone is plugged in and sreaming radio on wifi right now, so I cannot comment. I also updated my iPad Mini this morning at about 5:30am and now, at 4.5 hours later, it still displays 100%.

I'll toy with the phone over the next couple of days.

BTW, I have noted a significant improvement in wifi stability and speeds.

Hi Jameson, when you are speaking of improved wifi are you referring to the iP5 or the mini or both? And improved over 6.0.2 ?

BOTH, but please remember, it's only been a handful of hours! I hate to jump to any conclusions.......

sbailey4 wrote:

Hi Jameson, when you are speaking of improved wifi are you referring to the iP5 or the mini or both? And improved over 6.0.2 ?

Hmm...battery life is affecting me as well and i want to update to 6.1 but i go to General/Settings/Software Update and it tells me that "iOS 6.1 beta 4" is available....Didn't the official 6.1 came out yesterday (i.e. non-beta) ??

Yes it was released yesterday. Beta 4 expired Monday morning Jan 28th at 12:00 so you wont be able to get it. Not sure why the update is telling you there is an expired beta available. Were you running beta iOS 6.1 already? Beta 5 was pushed to developers on Saturday and the release to public Monday (which appear to be the same build as I understand).

My WiFi has definitely improved... It is now on good 11-12 hours of usage but 3G is just as bad as it ever was :(

@sbailey4:

No, i am not running some beta of 6.1, i am on 6.02. Should i install that thing ? Not happened to anyone alse here ?

Do the update through itunes and not ota.. its recommended to just back up through icloud then do a full restore.. if not, just click on update through itunes and that should get you to 6.1 final release. IF not just do a restore and that should push ios 6.1 onto your phone as well but you do loose everything. That's why i suggest backing up with icloud first.

Well most reports seem to point to yes you should update. As with every update some users are helped greatly and others not at all. However I have not seen a lot of positive reviews with iOS 6.0.2 and have seen a lot with iOS 6.1. So far have not seen any reports that 6.1 made anything worse. Even the beta versions were reported to have better battery life. I have updated a 4s and so far no issues. I believe if I were you I would update but of course you may want to wait a few more days if you are not sure. I would be more concerned as to why its telling you to update to beta 4. I believe I would plug into iTunes and check if I were you and not do the OTA its requesting you to do. Not heard of anyone else being prompted to update to beta 4. That is odd.

objectref wrote:

@sbailey4:

No, i am not running some beta of 6.1, i am on 6.02. Should i install that thing ? Not happened to anyone alse here ?