iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

Push doesn't make any difference.

What is draining his battery is ios 6.1.3. Nothing he tries will make it good. The only thing that MAY help is turning off iCloud.

Other than that, all other things that are suggested are only either not going to work or provide a temporary relief.

The only thing that will fix this is an update.

Not one person here has acted like a fanboy. Not one believes these issues are at all acceptable. We all equally hate the situation.

There is never going to be one solution for everybody. This was proven when Apple updated 6.1.2 in order to fix the exchange bug which caused battery drain. For many it fixes their drain issues and yet for others, it caused drainage issues.

Some people managed to solve their issues by turning off push, I was able to fix mine by logging out of my Google account in Chrome etc etc. Others are still suffering.

6.1.4 if it ever comes will hopefully fix the issue for most, but I know it won't fix it for everybody.

It's not clear whether 6.1.4 will even be released now. It maybe that we have to wait for iOS 7 in the Summer.

I'm getting a constant 8 hours usage now, plus I purchased a juice pack air which gives me almost double, so I can't run my battery down now even if I try.

Ultimately I just want for everybody to appreciate there's no single fix that will work for everybody. And that in the end we are all just trying to solve our problems and attempt to help one another. There doesn't have to be battles among ourselves.

Sure if somebody comes along and actually tells us that it's our own fault for using specific settings or that there isn't an issue, ill be the first to correct them. But right now I don't believe anybody is doing that.

6.1.4 has been pretty good for me so far. 6.1.3 I did everything including a restore from backup with no luck. Downloaded 6.1.4 OTA and initially it wasn't any better. Did a couple hard resets the other day and I got 10 hours usage half on WiFi half on LTE. Not here to tell people "Download 6.1.4!" But just my experiences with it.

@Papasin69

Hard reseting an IOS device will very likely improve battery life by killing any 'hanging' or malfunctioning Apps. I do a hard reset every day before I unplug my phone from the charger. It's the same as restarting you PC if it's acting up. If nothing else it frees up available memory which improves performance. The only part of your statement above that is correct is that 'hard resets don't do anything for the battery' which is true for the physical battery itself. What you seem to be missing is the battery is NOT the problem, it's the software, firmware and hardware that uses the energy stored in the battery!

Regarding your 'right' to post what you want..... GET OVER YOURSELF! This is a thread about 6.1.3 battery life problems! Between you and Thai_Phony4 there are pages & pages of comments that have ZERO relevance on the subject. Imagine you just discovered your battery was dying in hours... You search and find this potential helpful thread on Apples User Forums.... You start from the first page to see what others have found to 'fix' the problem... You read forward and start running into pages and pages of non relevant posts whcih eventually gets so ridiculous that it's no longer worth the time it takes to sort through the irrelevant posts to find further solutions! HOW DOES THAT HELP ANYONE?

As to your recent reply to me (also off topic and needless), I completely understand your post. It is irrelevant and useless in this thread! Also you do not understand my reply. Apple has not changed how they will deal with faulty devices. They simple have added another option for the customer. Maybe you can learn from this reply. See how easy it is to post multple responses in a single post? Compare the length here to your multiple off topic posts above....

The 6.1.3 update is a mess.

To me there is no doubt - at all.

Ever since the 6.1.3 update I have noticed that my ipad 4 is draining battery much faster then before. Before 6.1.3 I could charme the ipad once a week, now it is 2-3 times a week.

A friend of mine got a iPhone 5 in start February, after updating to 6.1.3, he was loosing 1% every 3 minuttes, We tried all the tricks. Backup/restore using iTunes. Reinstallaing iOs (terminal off, hold home button, connect cable) and then restoring it again. Even if we did the iOs restore and did not install ANY applications at all, or setup any mail accounts. The batteri drain was still 1% every 3 minuttes.

So Thank you very much Apple, you really f*cked it up this time.

/Brickhead

Iphone 4, still running iOs 5.01 and will do so until it dies.

Hi Iphone 5 users !!!

This is my first iphone and lately I have been having the same issue you all been having aka battery drainage. I thoughtI was recharging my phone too often and fryin my battery but no .. So, biggest thanks to my awesome sister in law for the help and being a life saver heh ...

You might have to turn off all the apps you have been using .. How ?

Double push the home button and the apps should be popping up on the bottom .. Hold down til you see red "-" circle icon on each app .. By turning them off, you click on on those apps and no, it wont delete the apps so no worries everyone heh .. This should, at least, solve your battery drainage issue .. Once you turn off all of your apps, charge your iphone til its 100% .. Unplug your phone and you will see the difference .. Your phone should be at 100% for at least an hour or so ..

Also, if youre not using "location services" you may want to keep it off til you need to use it ..

I hope this helps !! 🙂

PS .. My phone have been 100% since 1:06pm, its getting better 😀

Quite possible. Apple does recommend that you run your phone down until it powers itself off, the charge it to the full 100%, every month or so, purely to maintain the calibration of the battery readout. The battery doesn't care.

I am experiencing same problems on a 1 year old iphone 4S w/ iOS 6.1.3. Full charge over night depelted to 35% after a full day of work where the phone was used minimally (probably 20 texts sent/received). This charge at the end of the day is a slight improvement, now that I have turned off location services, siri, returned fetch times and screen brightness.

I have also tried the fix that involves turning off all e-mail/icloud-esque services and soft-restarting the phone, this did not seem to help. Also tried a factory reset to no avail. A freind of mine has the same phone and has spectacular battery life -- almost two days with normal usage.

Have been googling around on the issue and it seems rampant.

Have we heard anything from Apple yet?

So if you remove all the email accounts off the phone, reset the phone by home and on, then re add your emails this seems to fix it?

If your battery is in a free fall, then you might have a bad battery. You can take your battery to Apple and they can tell you what condition your battery is in.

Yeah i forgot to mention the hard reset thing....I did tat too and after that less drainage. Could be some background process eating the battery.

You should go to an Apple Store and get inf. from the genius. They must change your battery.

Try turning off "Mobile data" when u don't need it and it should be sufficient since internet connection would be cut off.

Prasad

@sunargon You will still be on 6.1.3..

@Eric 3g eats up your battery too much.. only turn it on when you need it and you will find iphone battery too good.. 🙂

everyone file bug reports at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html