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My iPhone 4S battery life is terrible, Even with iOS 6.1.1

Hi Apple Users


I'm on my 6th 4S handset since summer 2012! Last night (11/2) I updated my phone with iOS 6.1.1 and the battery life is worse than ever before! All apps are fully closed down, Wifi/Bluetooth are turned off! Screen brightness is down to 18%. I've no e-mail accounts set up! Location services are switched off

iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1

Posted on Feb 12, 2013 6:27 AM

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Feb 12, 2013 10:00 AM in response to johns1966

It's terrible! Having spoken to Apple customer service this afternoon they sent me out an iOS e-mail which diagnoses your iPhone but this never worked, A 2nd e-mail was sent out but yet again that never worked! I've spent a bomb on travel costs going to/from the Apple store and have been treated like crap on 1 visit to my local store! Today I asked if it would be possible if I exchanged the 4S for a refurbished iPhone 5 and would pay the difference between the 2. This was duly knocked backed by the manager!


Having been a previous Blackberry customer in the past for years, I moved to iPhone as I felt Blackberry were going downhill with e-mail blackouts here & there. Now with this new Blackberry handset out this looks to be the way forward and I feel Apple are going to suffer if there products/new updates are going to be useless. The anger-some bit is I paid a bomb for the phone. Are apple ever going to give us an update for the battery usage?

Feb 12, 2013 2:46 PM in response to Jackprentice2007

I'm fed up with Apple and their nonsense. 6.1.1 made things worse, now my email just hands up, especially Gmail. I have deleted and re-added the account to no avail. Even Exchange will just hang minutes trying to send or get messages. Also causing worse battery life.


You suck apple. Stop trying to make the coolest products and just make something that works, like you used to.

Feb 12, 2013 4:15 PM in response to Jackprentice2007

diesel vdub's terse message may have some merit.

Work kept me from coming back here till now, but earlier I forced the iphone to clear and shutdown (hold home-power buttons at the same time for 5 seconds). After turning back on the iphone started to operate normal.

You would think just performing a power-off would clear the memory, but apparently the iphone tries to keep some things active - and you need to remember the secret handshake to get it to clear.

My iPhone 4S battery life is terrible, Even with iOS 6.1.1

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