iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

I turned off the 3G feature and it now seems to work better. I went over 24 hours without recharging.

I wish Apple allowed you to go back to prior OS versions. My phone worked fine before the new and improved OS 6.......

Jajaba... THAT IS NO HELP at all to us. If you don't have something constructive to add to this thread go somewhere else.

PS. It seems There are MANY MANY threads re 6.1.3 and 4S ... and I could care less about any problems with phone5 y'all.

Well FYI I went in and upgraded to 6.1.3 AFTER going to iCloud settings ...turning ALL OFF and saving to phone and then back on after upgrade. So far so good.

PS as seen somewhere else..also be sure you have CELLULAR DATA transfer off.

3G actually uses much less power than '4G' for talking and cellular data (except for 3G taking longer to download data). This applies only when you turn off 'enable LTE', you can leave celluer data on, and of course you need to be connected to a true 3G signal which is becoming harder to find in big markets (Note that the '4G' / LTE descriptions I use may vary by cellular carriers, I am on AT&T). I use 3G when I am on remote overnight hikes and can easily get over 11 hrs of talk time, with 4G I'm lucky if I get over 6 hrs.

For those of you that are seeing the battery draining very quickly (with no useage) it would be interesting to know what happens with 'Airplane mode' on? In theory this should disable all RF, Cellular, Wifi, GPS and data input and output from any IOS device. If the battery drains just as quickly while in Airplane mode it would suggest the issue is internal on the device and not anything to do with external wireless I/O communications. This would at least isolate, in part, where the battery drain is coming from

@Berle

That's interesting. To clairify: You're saying you lost 20-25% battery level overnight in airplane mode without using the phone? Too bad that there isn't a feature like android has that lists power usage by components/ /apps.... I wonder if it's due to some of your social media apps trying to get updates in the backround, were they open during your aiplane mode 'test'? Maybe one of the social apps keeps trying to connect for updates but can't due to airplane mode?

Last night I fully charged my iPhone 5 and decided to leave all my running apps open to see what what would happen to battery levels. The apps were safari (5 pages), stocks, calender, meassages, flipboard, CNN, Bloomberg news, iPhoto, google maps, apple maps, fandango and yelp. I was at 99% after 7 hours of stanby overnight. So mine seems to be back to 'normal' after just turning off Facetime and iCloud docs and data (which were both turned on during the 6.1.3 update).

As you can see from the pix, the battery life has been declining with every new 6.1.* update.

I'm on my fifth iPhone 4S. The latest is brand new, and I had it for only 3 weeks.

It's important to mention that with iOS 6.0.* the battery would last up to 48 hours on a standby and 8 hours of usage (browsing, e-mailing, texting, facebook, Instagram, Safari).

I'm doing the same amount of browsing, texting, using the same apps I did back in October when I got my very first iPhone 4S.

One thing that I've noticed, after updating to iOS 6.1.3, is that after letting the battery completely drain and fully charging it about 3 times, and turning the FaceTime off, the battery life did improve a bit, but it's still losing 1% or more of its power on a standby.

Would love to have a program that would give me a pretty good picture of the iPhone usage time, and pinpoint the programs and applications that are affecting the battery life.

FOLKS ...there is a way you can stop 'running' programs from draining your batteries.

Remember that area below home screen that shows 'last 4 run programs?

You get there by double clicking home button. If you press on an icon, they wiggle

and a little RED - circle comes up. Press the RED - and ICON /program is turned off.

..TURN THEM ALL OFF! It wont affect your reuse of any app direct from home screen.

Even my SYS ACTIVITY montor said I had App Store and fb running when I hadn't used them

in hours. By turning them off with this HOME Button they are now OFF OFF and in fact were

removed from my 'running applications' list on SYS ACTIVITY.( I tested by turning CAMERA on

then off.) Sure enough it showed up in 'running applications'.. and popped up in the bottom list.

Pushing its RED button..removed it from running apps list!

Now I know we shouldn't have to do this ..but no matter. It does work. Keep that screen cleared!

I did that and have had NO BATT drain for over an hour!.

you know the networks after edge do like 3g, hsdpa or lte? they combine the networks signal powers together for the high speed internet that consumes alot of phone power.. Edge is slow but perfect for just locating yourself or whatever you want to do..

i recommend you ALL to go to settings and just turn off 3g and not mobile data.. it will automatically take you to the edge or the previous version of edge even; depends where you live.. (Like here in many areas we get a 2g service not more then it).. And when ever you want fast internet like for facetime or youtube you can switch it to 3g in secs.. + one more suggestion turn your phone brightness to auto adjust.. it saves your battery alot..

looool there is nothing wrong with the update my friend you just need to change the settings..
All the problems that you guys are facing was once used to be mine.. my 4s used to get pretty much hot even without using it.. my 5 and ipad 3 used to discharge whole of the battery in night after charging for 100%..

There is nothing wrong with your device..

FOR ALL MY FRIENDS HERE!!

1- close everything when you finish using your device..

2- switch your 3g network off..
3- go to your location sevices and turn it off..

4- switch the brightness to auto adjust

5- turn your bluetooth off

6- turn your wifi off when you dont need it

Nobody here can fix it, and Apple don't read each and every message here.

For support, either use your warranty/AppleCare, or file a bug report at bugreport.apple.com (you can log in with the same ID as you use here).

There are enough people having issues, so at the very leasts the updating procedure isn't foolproof, which is a software issue, and thus warrants filing a bug report.

One is that a little bit helped me I found yesterday. I switched off my 3G network and just left 2G(EDGE) and turned off all any locations. I turned off WiFi if need not. Push is also off as always My experience from 100% charge to 71% (so 29% discharge) is 2h35min usage time and 13h39min standby. It is all good but it bring me many problems because I very often use Maps with traffic situations, therefore I compelled to find my current place by hands and the traffic info loads not so fast in 2G mode. In some situations you have to get decision fast where to go. 2G is not good for this.

When there were iOS 6.1.2 on my iPhone 4S I never switched off WiFi, 3G and locations. I have just turned off Push.

I dont know will this work on other iPhones but me this a little bit work. Anyway this is not a fix of the problem. Problem is still here and the problem is in the frmware IMHO. I hope to see new Apple update in very close time.

It will be also very good to know the exact date if this one.

Lawrence by my experience with two different iPhones it's not the phone it's the software. Two years ago I had bought an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2.6, and the battery life was perfect until the iOS 5 update came out. I tried every little tip, and trick apple told me too until they insisted on replacing the phone even though I had told them it was a software issue. Well guess what happened the problem wasn't fixed it still persisted even with the replacement phone. Upon telling apple this, and still telling them it was a software issue they insisted on sending me a second replacement phone which ended up having the same battery drain issues. Apple insisted on a third replacement phone. I had finally had enough, and turned them down. I waited till this past January, and upgraded from the iPhone 4 to an iPhone 5. When I had first gotten the phone I was a little disappointed that iOS 6 had the same battery drain issues. So the iOS 6.1 update came out and bam my battery drain issues were magically gone, iOS 6.1.2 came around, and the battery was still acting fine, iOS 6.1.3 came around, and as magically as the problems disappeared they reappeared, and I am now once again experiencing battery drain issues. So let me clarify this again the vast majority of battery drain issues which is greater than 1% of iOS users. It's a software issue, and it is not the phone

Hi to all!

I am Iphone 4s user from Kazakhstan. Bought my phone one month ago with iOS 6.1.2. Battery drainage existed with both 6.1.2 and 6.1.3. I've spent about three days screening through different forums and tried different approaches to resolve the problem. This is what helped me more or less:

1. Change of the sim card. My previous cell operator provides micro sim cards of a really low quality. For Kazakhstani users: Kcell is not the best operator to use micro sim card if you are requesting from them new sim card to already existing number. I am now using beeline and it allowed me increasing battery life time for two hours.

2. Discharging phone from 100% to 0% twice. Phone were alive for almost 1.5 days with low usage but with 3g always on.

But, my happiness went down when I found out that first recharging after 1.5 days my iphone started dying pretty fast. However, it's worth of mentioning that prior to changing the sim card iphone used to be alive for 14 hours with 3g off and location service off as well. Now it comes to 8% at 11 pm with both services on and pretty hard usage. Please note that I still have to charge iphone overnight. So, I am able to use Iphone from 6 am to 11 pm with 3g and location service on with: 10-15 sms, 20 minutes calls, 20 minutes gaming, 1 hour news and books reading. I assume that it's good result for iphone though I've expected more from the phone costed for me $550 (especially iphone). icloud is off but i am going to test if icloud drains battery as it was mentioned above.

Hope this information would be helpful for anybody not only from Kazakhstan. I will start using icloud sync starting from tomorrow and will report back results after two days.

Hey guys...

if you ask me it has to be a probem with the ios. I have tried all the fixes postet in this forum, but nothing really worked for me.I restored my iphone more than once and set up as a new one. I didn´t install apps, no E-Mail acoount, no 3g (all day on Wifi), no bluetooth, no location service, no push, no cloud, reduced brighness and absolutely no use!!! And the battery still drains. By having a look in Settings--General-- Usage, i noticed that the time of usage and standby are nearly identic. By only lying on the table, the Phone droppes 3-4% per hour. This is horrible! Something is running in the backgrouns, draining my device.

I really love my iPhone, but if there won´t be a fix or solution for my 4s, I am going to sell it. This is no accaptable performance for a product with this price!

PS:

I even tried to restore on certain ways:

1. usual iTunes restoring ( plug iphone and chose restore)

2. downloading the ipsw for iOS 6.1.3 an directly chose this file in iTunes for restoring

3. created a Guest account on windows, installed itunes an restored with the newest itunes version

Everything with the same annoying results.... All restores were done wired with itunes

So far... it is no third party app draining my battery --> it must be a process getting stuck in the updating process or a problem with the iOS. I have no further ideas...

What I have seen is in the mornings the device may not be at 100% even tho its on the charger. Maybe 97% or so. Sometimes it shows 100% then as soon as I unplug it it drops to 97%. That is by design as I understand. It will stop charging and drop to 95% or so before the charge starts back up. Anyway that little bit of drain overnight was most likely just standby time drain (.05 per hr) when the charging circuit cycled off. I would unplug an replug in the morning just before showering and getting ready for work and it would bump it back to 100%

What I have figured out and works 100% of the time is at night I will turn off the phone, then plug in charger and let it come back on by itself. Never enter the passcode. Then in the morning its always at 100% and stays that way for several hours (if not used a lot). I also always close all open apps at the end of the day just for good measure before I power it off (as mentioned above). I have tried just closing apps and not power off and still had the 97% in the morning. So the power off seems to be what helps. Not real sure why that works but it does and I always start the day with 100%.

jwolfers wrote:

I was having the battery drain issue after upgrading to 6.1.3, but I restored my phone and it seemed to be working ok. This past weekend I noticied that the battery seemed to be draining more quickly again. This morning I noticed that my battery said 97% and I hadn't used the phone yet and it had been on stand-by for 1 hour. I then looked at Sys manager app and it said my battery was 100%. So I rebooted my phone and now it says 100% too. Yesterday, I also noticed that my phone was at 83%, I did a hard reset and then it read 89%. Could we just not be getting the true readings of the battery and that they really aren't draining as quickly as it seems?? Really confusing!

Since signing out of my google account in chrome and ensuring sync was off, the final 20% of my battery lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes of usage. Prior to this, I was getting about 45 minutes usage per hour.

Again, I ask you guys to please test.