iPhone 5 battery life is way worse than iPhone 4

Turn off Cellular data as well and see your battery perfomance boost! but yeah, whats the point!? 😠

LOL well yeah let us all just turn off everything... Just turn off the handset and you will get awesome battery life! 🙂

This may sound a little ridiculous but after doing a months worth of testing, I may have found a possible solution to the terrible battery life on the iPhone 5.

At first, I noticed my phone would take a good 45 minutes to an hour to charge from 5% or less and as impatient as I am, this was unnacceptable. I know the iPhone charging adaptor is only a 5W power supply but the stock iPad adapter is rated at 12W...hmmmph, 250% more power, I gave it a whirl...30 minutes later, full charge.

I continued this practice for the few weeks leading up to my discovery...battery life was horrendous, wouldn't get more than 12 hours out of a full charge with light txting, email check and a few games of cribbage. I was out of town and didn't have the iPad charger with me so I used the 5W adapter for the night. Full charge with many phone calls, a lot more messages sent and received and being bored in the room a crapload more cribbage played and after 10 hours, still 60%?????? Really???

Over the past 3 or 4 weeks, I have charged the phone multiple times with both chargers, and even kept a record for how long it took to charge and how long it lasted...12W charger always twice as fast for charging time but always lasted about half as long. Like I said, not just once, it may not have been great for my battery, but I have rotated my chargers everyday for the past 3 or 4 weeks and there is no variation in these results.

I am no electrical engineer, I come from a chemistry background...I can tell you what chemicals make up a battery but cannot begin to explain what happens when it's in the wall.

What I can say, I have a very good grasp on failing and successfull experiments in and out of a lab and I'll tell you, using the 5W adapter may charge slower but you won't have to charge as often

How do you post screen shots when you post from the iphone?

After you take the screen shot, go to photos, open the screen shot and select the icon on the lower left to bring up a screen with options to post the picture via message, email, Facebook, twitter and so on. Hope this helps! :-)

Actually it doesn't. There is no option to share on safari, and copying the picture doesn't help...

I see a bar in the full editor, but it disappears to quick to be used :(

Ok, dropbox should help:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hnmirxuplmr20ze/Photo%2024-02-2013%2002%2057%2055.png

Ios 6.1.2, mainly wi-fi and some cellular, loccation services on for the apps i use, BT off

Just to weigh in, I got my iPhone 5 for Xmas, it was my first iPhone so I didn't restore settings from a 4S backup etc, just started from scratch. It came pre-installed with iOS 6.x, which I've updated a couple times since to be at 6.1.2 currently. I always charge using AC rather than USB, and I've been monitoring my usage closely precisely because of complaints I'd seen online about poor battery life with the iPhone 5 (in particular compared to the 4S).

I have to say I've been quite pleased. I typically recharge every other day or sometimes even go 2.5 days, and by then the battery typically gets down to approx 5-15 percent with the usage showing at least 9 hours usage and 50 hours or more of standby time, and that's being conservative. I never owned a 4S but my brother does, and he uses a battery pack case to extend his usage. Without the battery pack he was having trouble getting through a work day much less an entire day without charging. He's in sales so he talks a lot, whereas I don't. I have iCloud set to push in advanced settings but gmail is every 30 min. I typically spend no more than an hour or less on voice calls per day, and I have strong 4G LTE service in my area with Verizon. I work from home, so I spend almost the entire day on wifi.

The one time I let it go to full discharge (wouldn't turn on), my stats were 59 hours standby and 9:36 usage !!! Granted I'm not a heavy talker, nor do I use the phone heavily all day long. Typically a few calls a day, a couple dozen texts and web searches, some app and music use, etc. I am definitely a light user, but even on the days that I spend a lot of time on the phone and use GPS etc, there's NO WAY I would ever have trouble making it to bedtime on a full charge.

The battery drainage is due to the Exchange account you are using.

Yes mine Louses 20% when there are no apps running and the iPhone is on standby for 6 hours I also own a apple iPad 3 witch can last up to 3days on standby and have 100% battery left. Apple need to address this and improve or for the next iPhone. So does anyone know the problem it's such a great phone but is limited by the battery life were as a more basic phone can last much longer than a iPhone 5

Well my iPhone 5 on 6.1.2 is really good .

almost 10 hrs of use ( mix LTE and wifi 50//50 ) mail sufing facebook ......

stand by like 30hrs.

Yeahr I can get that but only if I deseble the 3G signal but compared with other phones that can last days its still not great for the price you pay my contract is going to be £890 when it's finished so for that I expect better

Turn on Airplane mode in Settings. It will keep your iPhone 5's battery life longer.

Just found out that the new update uses your battery up quicker because it streams all the stuff you do to apple research and it uses your data as well apple do not inform you of this I like apple but recently they were very rude to me about my iPad all I can say is apple get you act together you can't charge £800 for a iPhone and do this :(

Thats not new. Its been around a while now. You can turn that off in settings>general>about>diagnostics and usage. Set to "dont send". Also in settings>privacy>location services>system services (at the bottom) turn off all but cellular,compass and traffic will help as well.

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Just found out that the new update uses your battery up quicker because it streams all the stuff you do to apple research and it uses your data as well apple do not inform you of this I like apple but recently they were very rude to me about my iPad all I can say is apple get you act together you can't charge £800 for a iPhone and do this :(