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iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

Last night I updated my iPhone 4S to a iOS 6.1.3 and now it drains my battery in extremely fast manner. As I started signing in to write this question from my iPhone I already lost 13% of my battery. I never had a problem with a battery and ive been using iphones since the first one. i miss my morning class because of it because my alarm clock didn't because my phone was dead. Please fix it or have no choice but buy Samsung GS4

iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.3

Posted on Mar 21, 2013 9:04 PM

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Mar 27, 2013 6:48 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

I have the same 6.1.2/3 battery drain issue, and I have done everything, including a full factory reset, and still have the problem. The other night, I charged my iPhone fully before going to bed, killed all open apps -- and when I woke up my phone was at 22%. I have no push e-mail, no reminders set, etc.


My issues first started with the Exchange bug, but when I did the workaround (don't respond to meeting requests), my battery usage went back to normal. With 6.1.2 and 6.1.3 (the Exchange "fix"), my battery usage is now consistently bad.


It's possible that my battery just decided to go bad, the day that 6.1.2 came out -- just not the most likely explanation...

Mar 27, 2013 7:09 AM in response to chamberscreek

Make a backup of the phone. Restore the phone as New. Do not add any apps. Do not create any email accounts. Do not sync the phone. Charge to 100%. Watch the battery life. If it drops at a significant rate (more than 1% per hour) with nothing installed you most likely have a hardware problem. If this resolves the battery drain restore the phone from your backup, and test again. If the battery problem returns you have corrupt data in your backup.

Mar 27, 2013 8:07 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Those 99% may not be posting. Just calling tech support. Some times I get a cool tech support agent, and the tech guy tells me all his phone calls are due to battery drain. Even my Apple store said the same thing about the update and iPhone not lasting as long as it use to. This isn't the only forum on battery drain, Some people go elsewhere because of all the rules of posting on here, I think some of the rules are a joke myself. I don't have it backwards! I've done my home work on this issue for months! Starting with 6.0.2. A lot of people I know have switched out phones for another one because of the battery. I don't want to get in a B------g match over who's right and who's wrong. This battery drain problem has been going on for months! I hope Apple has a fix soon.

iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

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