Q: iPhone 5 battery life is way worse than iPhone 4

IT IS. Iphone 3 and 4 I had would drop 2% in 8 to 9 hours.   1% per hour IS a problem.

Sorry, but you are not being reasonable.   There are people in here with REAL battery life problems and you are not one of them.   Please reset your expectations to something more realistic....

marine8 wrote:

 

IT IS. Iphone 3 and 4 I had would drop 2% in 8 to 9 hours.   1% per hour IS a problem.

Agreed. I'd happily take 1% per hour over the 1% per min I was seeing before.

I am still timing it.....Ill have a report in the next hour....

Leave complaints here.

www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I will

Marine: you are 100% truly not being rational. 1% an hour? I don't really care if your previous phones had that usage. This phone does not and will not give you that. I'd say the best bet for YOU would be to return your phone. Please realize and understand what is and what is not acceptable battery life. Coming here posting that nonsense completely takes away from our actual concerns. Thank you.

6.0.1

49%

4hrs usage

12:44 standby ....

Not bad ??

Yest I ended on 15% with a little bit of maps use.

What is the majority of your use? Wifi? 3G? Or LTE? If its mostly wifi, it's going to be decent time. It's the cellular network that makes the battery die 1% a minute

Is that wifi or LTE?

You need to call up Tim Cook and tell him that, not me. I am just trying to help here is so much EASIER to take your frustration on other members here (me) , so much easier....I do not work for Apple, I did not design the phone, I did not manufacture the phone I got at least 3 or 4 replies since my post towards me, it just blows my mind how people here need to vent their iphone 5 frustrations to other members. I am in the same boat as everyone else. Let's not forget here, all the anger and frustration needs to be directed to Apple.

Marine8

You're totally missing something here......   Or the rest of us are?   1% battery drop per hour is perfectly fine.   What are you trying to tell us that we are not understanding?

Ok so I started participating in this thread at page 120 or maybe later. At some point I stopped particiapting as I gave up hope on battery life.

6.0.1 came out I upgraded, so I was expecting a fix, something similar to iphone 4. Per Apple specs is suppose to be. This thread is actually called 5 battery is worst than 4, correct ? so that is what I am doing, comparing the two versions.

I am frustrated, as i was hoping with 6.0.1 batt life on 5 willl be better, on iphone 4 level. Is not.

Update, in the past 1 hour exactly battery dropped 2% on LTE with no usage on 6.0.1

My coworker who updated to 6.0.1 in the same timeframe I did, his battery percentage did not drop, it stayed the same.

I am just posting my observation, that is all.

I wish people would stop saying this.  My battery life on WiFi is just as bad as on cellular.  And it has gotten worse since the 6.0.1 update.

As for the guy claiming 1% per hour on standby is a problem, stop giving him a hard time.  He is correct.  With my iPad 3 and my previous iPhone 4S on iOS 5.1.1 they would only drop 3% per DAY on standby.  So a 24% drop per day on standby is a problem!  That's 100 hours vs. the 225 hours that Apple claims.  It's all part of the same drainage issues that are causing our other problems.

I thought I'd try something different like turn off all the Calendar accounts but that didn't fix the battery problem either.  I don't know what's going on.  What I can say is that there is a different 6.0.1 update for the iPhone 5 than the iPad 3.  The iPhone 5 is version 6.0.1 (10A525) and the iPad 3 is version 6.0.1 (10A523).  Not that it makes any difference as far as battery life is concerned, they both stink.

I think iCloud must be the culprit and perhaps we should all delete our accounts and make new ones and see what happens.