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

Well actually you are correct about the 4s. iOS 5.0 was BAD and the thread about battery life approached a million. (you were there too ) However 5.0.1 then 5.1 then 5.11 all got better. I am running 6.0.1 currently and it has better battery life now than it did when it was new over a year ago with iOS5.  The best yet. So yes the iOS/software CAN and does make a difference. My 1 yr 2 month old battery lasts WAY better now than it did when I first unboxed the phone with iOS5 and only thing that changed was iOS (and the battery got older) Wonder if I had a new battery and iOS 6.0.1 if I could get even better? hmmm just thought of that,

 

 

Jameson! wrote:

 

Ummmmm...   iPhone 5 is the FIRST model to utilize LTE.

 

THE 4s also had terrible battery life as was evidenced by a thread larger than this one when that phone was released.   On top of that, iOS 6 has the dual antenna management issues, even in those older version phones.  

 

Now you can talk like you know what you're talking about all you want, but the proof is in the fact that 6.1 is in its 4th beta release and nobody is seeing better battery life.    Do you think if there was a firmware fix to be had, that the most valuable company in the world would not have come up with it after 6.0, 6.01, 6.02 and 4 beta versions of 6.1????

 

Give us a break, ok?   The iPhone needs a bigger battery.   Period!

 

I will be happy if i lose 4% overnight on battery like firmware 6.0.1 did

with this 6.0.2 I am losing around 40% overnight.

Yeah I have heard a lot of folks got better wifi but lost battery with 6.0.2. Thats too bad. Further to the point that the iOS version can make a difference. So all hope is not lost.

Jandyfromhuntvilla wrote:

 

I will be happy if i lose 4% overnight on battery like firmware 6.0.1 did

with this 6.0.2 I am losing around 40% overnight.

hey guys ,

am sooo depressed ... thank you apple for the verry happy new year u gave me .. i spent 800 dollars for a phone doesn't last for 4 hours , i started missing my old blackberry .

i tried everything i read all the posts all websites ... restored to 6.0.1 and its still the battery drains faster than the minutes in the clock i guess apple got confused with the clock and the battery indicator ..

we don't have any apple stores in middle east and unfortunately i bought it in California so i cant replace it here i don't know what to do I don't want to sell it although I cannot live with this issue its making me crazy ..

any suggestions ??

One thing I noticed when fiddling with deeper settings was this:

Go to settings->iCloud->tap your apple ID at the very top->then scroll to bottom where it says advanced.

All this time on my phone, nothing was selected. So I tapped it and made sure to select the account then tap "done".

I am not sure if THIS is what was causing my battery drain, but if you read my earlier post one page back https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4329696?start=3120&tstart=0, you'll see that my battery was awesome yesterday.

And again today, I took the phone off the charger at 9:30am and its now 8:39pm and my battery is 40% with:

Usage 4hrs, 54min

Standby 11hrs, 11mins

Who knows if this is the case but so far the past two days I have had the best battery life I've seen since iphone 5 release day.

They are just fobbing you off dude - the only reason I manged to get the battery replaced was the fact the store had one in, and I asked if they could just change the battery because I have a Front and Back Zagg protector on the iPhone and I was unwilling to have to purchase another set

The lady that dealt with me (stated she needed to go check that they had one because of how new the phone was at that time)

She came out with it in her hand and they changed it, so go back to you Apple Store and explain to them from me that "it's not fake it's what happened, they obviously haven't had any sent through so they can't comment on the apple store here in the UK"

Same thing over here spent £699 uk money all I get is plugged into a charger all day and night Apple should test their firmware before releasing it.

Just read a report from Reuters, here's an excerpt:

"Apple launched iPhone 5 in September and it has been reported that the new iPhone will be released in the middle of 2013.

Techradar.com reported last month that Apple could unveil the next version of its iPhone as early as the spring of 2013"

There you have it, that's going to be the fix for the battery issue.

We've been duped into buying a subpar phone at a premium price, it also irritates me that there's been no acknowledgment from any Apple support representative to this thread.

Here's the link for the report:

http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCABRE90108X20130102

Hello, I had no problem with battery problem on 6.0.1 once updated to 6.0.2 battery problems started happening.

You're assuming that a 5s will fix the problem?   Will it include a bigger battery?   TBD in my opinion!

They acknowledge it and then what. What's a point of acknowledging something they can't fix. I'm sure they have been trying for a fix. And I'm sure they have bloody **** come up with nothing cuz they release a prototype instead of giving us the real thing.

Face it. You wait for 5s and acknowledge they screwed all of us or you can move to competition. I for one will go for latter. I lost all brand faith in apple and will be going to blackberry 10 once again.

:(

I agree I could even had over 10 hours standby time with this product they better come up with a fix soon.

At this rate my iPhone 3GS has better battery life than this phone.

I don't know about you guys, but i'm getting good enough decent battery on my iphone 5, to the point i only need to charge once a night. With wifi and Lte on (when away from wifi) and everything. I'm running on ios 6.0.1 with majority of the stuff on, minus some notifications i don't really need my phone turning on every second on.. I'm getting a full day use with wifi and lte when off it.. I get about 7-8hrs of usage average and sometimes 9hrs at most..I can probably make it last more then a day if i don't use it much, but whats the point of having a phone..

Yestarday i went to a safari park outside of london,and the drive was 1:15 min exacly.

From fully charged it went down to 56% in that time using tomtom on the phone

On my way home i plug it in the car and did the trip back.when i got home i unplug the thing and it didnt charged at all,it was draining power all the time without charge while using the satnav

Its amazing how can apple get away with this