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

Mines battery life very poor aswell. Working in outdoor conditions doesn't help at all.

My 2+ year old iPhone 4 lost <5% after a full night of sleep. iPhone 5 loses more than 30%.

When actually using iPhone 5 I can watch the battery percentage drop as if it's an animated gif loading slowly.

Ridiculous.

Have you tried resetting the whole phone and setting it up as a new phone, while not restoring from icloud? This has helped some people with this issue on battery. i'm running on 6.0.1 and only lost about 4% with close to 9hrs standby. But this is on 6.0.1 not sure about 6.0.2

I've tried all the stuff you suggested. Nothing has been working. This really ***** because this is my first iPhone and the guy with the big Samsung Note 2 can let his sit for 3 days without charging.

Steve Jobs would be rolling in his grave.

Hey guys. I have been following this post for quite a while and I want to share the trick that worked for me.

1- Charge you iphone completely and after 100% let it chare for an hour more.

2- Unplug the iphone and restart it by holding down Power and Home button simultaneously and let it go when you see apple logo.

3- Now plugin the charger again for 2 seconds and unplug it immidiately.

4- Turn On Airplane mode and turn off Airplane mode do this 7 to 8 times with 3 seconds interval.

5- After that you are done and see the battery life if its improved or not.

I have to do it every time my usage and standby time becomes 0. Its a temporary fix for and I hope works for you guys also...

Regards,

Mark Ris.

P.S. Sorry for Bad english i am learning....

Are you seriously ok. ? After the second step I stopped reading. Your better off buying a new phone than doing all those nonsensical steps you just mentioned. That's a fail product

Thanks for the info. I'll give this a try.

I suppose the point is that you shouldn't have to do all these hocus pocus steps to get your phone to work as it is advertised. I just wish Apple would acknowledge the issue. I'm hoping one of the tech sites (i.e. CNET) would test this out to make sure that I'm not crazy.

Anybody that falls for this load of crap deserves it.  Who would actually go through all of this?

TheMarkris wrote:

 

Hey guys. I have been following this post for quite a while and I want to share the trick that worked for me.

 

1- Charge you iphone completely and after 100% let it chare for an hour more.

2- Unplug the iphone and restart it by holding down Power and Home button simultaneously and let it go when you see apple logo.

3- Now plugin the charger again for 2 seconds and unplug it immidiately.

4- Turn On Airplane mode and turn off Airplane mode do this 7 to 8 times with 3 seconds interval.

5- After that you are done and see the battery life if its improved or not.

 

I have to do it every time my usage and standby time becomes 0. Its a temporary fix for and I hope works for you guys also...

 

Regards,

Mark Ris.

 

P.S. Sorry for Bad english i am learning....

Don't forget to mention that you need to be standing on one leg and chanting in Latin while doing this...........  

TheMarkris wrote:

 

Hey guys. I have been following this post for quite a while and I want to share the trick that worked for me.

 

1- Charge you iphone completely and after 100% let it chare for an hour more.

2- Unplug the iphone and restart it by holding down Power and Home button simultaneously and let it go when you see apple logo.

3- Now plugin the charger again for 2 seconds and unplug it immidiately.

4- Turn On Airplane mode and turn off Airplane mode do this 7 to 8 times with 3 seconds interval.

5- After that you are done and see the battery life if its improved or not.

 

I have to do it every time my usage and standby time becomes 0. Its a temporary fix for and I hope works for you guys also...

 

Regards,

Mark Ris.

 

P.S. Sorry for Bad english i am learning....

jasontimOO

You can downgrade to 6.0.1.I did it few days ago.It works.

How can you down grade?

Type on Google:How to downgrade IOS 6.0.2 to 6.0.1 on iphone 5

You Tube video.

Do not forget before start you need to download IOS 6.0.1 for I 5 in your comp.

I just purchased a new iPhone 5 64Gb model and my current network is 3G only. I have done nothing besides add music to it. I turned off bluetooth, turned off location services and turned the brightness to minimum with a 1 minute lock. The battery drains 7% in the first hour that it is unplugged. Don't quote me on it, but according to my math that would mean that the battery will only last 14 hours. I have serious doubts that this is in line with the advertised standard at http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

What's the point of having an iPhone if you have to constantly gimp it by turning off all of the services? This is my first mobile device from Apple and I am NOT HAPPY at all.

I have been reading this post for the last month or so.  I have the Iphone 5 on Sprint.  I feel it is a far superior phone than 4s.  My 4s was almost worthless after the upgrade this fall.  I get all day plus out of my battery on the 5 and it takes a lot to kill the battery even when really low. I use LTE,3G,  Wifi etc and have made some adjustments with settings but not much.  Leave location on and have turned off Siri because she does not like my voice so I wasn't using it. I have made an observation on the people with the worst battery problems.  It seems to me if you keep changing phones and replacing them, and still have problems, then maybe it is your reception and or phone company.  It seemed to me that a lot of the people having the worst problems were not in the US.  I bouce back and forth from LTE to 3G and wifi depending where I am.  I have a better signal with the 5 than I ever had with 4s.  I am a veterinarian and am oncall 24/7 and I just plug my phone in every night next to my bed.  Have done that out of habit for as long as I have been a vet.  I have a charger for car and can charge at office if necessary but rarely have to.  It takes a lot to kill the phone.  I do not have a problem with this phone and have the original, I did have a problem with the 4s.