iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

Battery doctor I think is no longer on the App Store? Boost magic for your battery is pretty good, the paid for one. I let my ipad mini drain to 6% than charge to 100%. No longer than 12 hours, I believe that the longer you charge your battery the worse it performs. Also, I do a reboot before I charge it, hold down sleep button and home button (same time) wait for reboot, than charge to 100%.

This has worked for a couple weeks now. I don't recommend downloading 6.1.4 until others do, it should be out this month. I think Apple should give us the option to downgrade only when we have issues with a new update. I also heard Apple is gonna do away with the replace your phone, instead, Apple will fix your phone first. Apple is getting killed with giving away phones. Looked it up. It's true, it was gonna happen sooner or later. Can't blame em. How many company's do that? Not many.

I'm waiting for the iPhone 5s to come out, that will be my very first smart phone. Not a fan of Android or google. Better security with the iPhone. Not so good weather in buffalo ny.....:(

Hi JohannBelet,

The problem with battery drainage goes far beyond a 3G/Edge auto detection issue. Put this this way. My one month old Wifi IPAD 4 is having serious battery problem after upgrading to 6.1.3. I have turned off everything Bluetooth, Push, iClound, Mail Calendar ..etc everything and restore the device twice as new device and battery still only last 3 - 4 hours as compared to 10 - 12 hours before.

Nothing works. 6.1.3 is seriously flawed and I am so annoyed that Apple has elected to stay silence on this wide spread problem. There is no downgrade option ether so this an expensive paper weight and toaster

I'm afraid this problem is not necessarily a 6.1.3 problem. My wife's iPhone 4S started with battery problems two days ago but was upgraded to 6.1.3 ages ago.

My iPhone 5 started draining today and has done so twice after full charges. This morning in about 4 hours.

My daughter's iPhone 4, which Does Not have 6.1.3 on it because she has not upgraded yet, started draing today also.

We have all tried switching off various location services and cutting all apps from background, etc. this does seem to help a little but the batteries are draining crazily fast still.

We have been using different chargers, etc, etc and tried a number of things. The only unusual thing we have noted is an unusually high (I.e. horrendous amount) of spam suddenly hitting my wife's inbox.

I don't believe there's a battery problem (hardware) and I don't believe it has anything to do with the upgrade to 6.1.3 since it started on three phones in our household over a few days.

I am wondering if the is some malicious code or virus out there which is doing this ? Or an app upgrade recently which has some loose code in it ?

Jajaba wrote:

card data they program. You can turn off the phones 3G, 4G, LTE and cellular data (varies by device and service provider) but you can't 'force' it to choose one available signal type over another. For example; with AT&T I can turn off 'enable LTE' (4G) but in areas with only an LTE signal available it will connect to LTE regardless of the settings.

Weird, that's almost as if it'd connect to the cellular (or wifi) network if you switch off that network in the settings. If I deactivate 3G on my iphone 4S, I won't have reception in areas where there is apparently only 3G (which is werid in itself because I'm sure older phones will still work in those areas).

from my experience it seems to be an issue that's actually within iOS, because like I said before I've tried every above tip and trick. I also went to the extreme, and tested the phone with nothing but stock apps on it, and the battery still drained drastically from just texting, and using safari

Backing up & restoreing your device is a waste of time if your haveing issues because any bugs will b backed up & restored as wel best to factoy reset & totally whipe your device but to save you the time resetting back to only stock apps it dont solve this issue its 6.1.3 plain & simple my phone was totally fine untill i updated via lead on itunes & my 4s is only 6 weeks old this is my 4th iphone & this not the 1st time iso has caused issues all 3 of my 3gs kept hard restting after 5 or 6 mins in to a call due to ios 4.0.1 & all 3 of them did this straight out of the box

They have not. They have said they are redesigning the way VPN works due to legal issues with an update sometime this month but no mention of any battery issues or other bugs. For the record iOS 6.1.3 works fine on any 4s users I know. You will see the same reports for every iOS update throughout history. Its not iOS thats causing these issues. Typically some 3rd party app or mail account or icloud hung. Stuff like that.

Yorkie29 wrote:

Does anyone know for certain whether Apple have acknowledged this problem and are working on a fix?

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!

Hey guys,

Thought that update will come later but it's already here. Today I started iCloud sync. The battery loss rate increased rapidly. Almost 1% each 10 minutes. During the calls even more. Seems like the problem with sync settings while using 3g or edge data. I also found out that rebooting phone once a day is a good option for decreasing battery loss rate. Hope next iOS update will be soon and fix the problem.

I'm not going to replace it because I've sorted my battery problem. I gave up JB and updated from 6.1.2 to 6.1.3 and currently have 83% battery after 3h 50m usage and 16h standby. At that rate I'll get 90 hours out of it which is good enough for me. And I've turned Location services on for some apps and still getting great battery life. More than happy I updated now after the problems I had with 6.1.2.

Also, just to respond to something you said in another post about iPhone battery life being historically poor whichever iPhone version, check out the Android forums. They're all full of poor battery issues because Android OS is poor at managing the battery and it won't be any different with the S4. I've just come from Android, within the last 2 weeks, and I wouldn't go back to Android for anything, even after all the issues I had with 6.1.2.

There are exceptions but these are user exceptions and not handset exceptions and the same can be said about iPhone. There is not a single smartphone in the world where you will find zero complaints regarding battery life. It's just how it is.

Mai pen rai.

this is for S4'....

i have friends, my brother using galaxy's s2,s3.... and all are having issues not draing but shutting off automaticlly,things that are bad than drainage.....

and to point about battery i have been suffring from this since ios 6.1.2, and after 3 replacemnts of iphone , what i did was delet all my mac data and reinstall montain lion, and then put my iphone as new, and i got a better usage and standbay.

here you can see,

ios 6.1.3

usage time : 7:32 hrs

standby: 1 day 15 hrs.

before i was getting maximum 5 hrs of usage with 15 hrs standby

now i am using it with all icloud's features but without documents in icloud.

It's not the Mail app or Push mail. That's not draining your battery.

What is draining your battery is iCloud. Turn it off.

You will also need to follow my steps above to charge the phone and hard rest when it's plugged in. This will take care of iOS 6.1.3 which is incapable of a stable battery reading.

For users experiencing this drainage issue, go to this website

http://smartphones.wonderhowto.com/how-to/fix-battery-draining-issue-your-iphone -after-updating-ios-6-1-3-0145493/

It pretty much summarizes everything anyone said here.

Most of these "fixes" don't work. Some work only temporarily.

The answer is: Wait for the update. It MAY be fixed there. It's worth going through this website so if one of these solves it temporarily at least you can do that over and over if it gets too bad. Other than that, we are screwed until they fix it.

Now. CLOSE THIS THREAD.

@Yorkie29

Sorry but your not looking at the big picture. If just 1% of IOS users had this issue there would be over 2,000,000 people with terrible battery life trying to figure out why. That would definately make this thread (and all other forums) extremely active and primetime newsworthy. Even if just 10% of the 1% affected (200,000+) decided to search for answers / fixes, this thread and others would be in overdrive.

A good example of this is the MacBook Pro retina screen image retention issue. Dozens of forums about it including here. The MBPr is produced in very small volume compared to IOS devices, approx 1,300,000 / year. The image retention issue also only affects a small percentage of users yet the forum here had to be reset after over 500 pages were posted in just the first 2 months, it was bogging down the entire Apple forums site. It has already gotten back up to over 500 pages again. This issue has made news on the tech websites. If you figure even more conservative guesstimates, assuming 10% affected units and 25% of those affected search for answers / fixes then that means only ~32,500 users have gotten more action than the potential millions with the 6.1.3 battery issue. It's orders of magnitude different with IOS and the press always jumps on any potential IOS problems very quickly.

For reference this thread has only had 91,000 views and 721 replies! The MBPr thread (after being reset to zero) has 520,000 views and 7,700 replies. and this is with less than 5% of potential number of effected devices than the IOS battery issue (my educated guess).

ok so why do you have iPhone if it blows so bad? There are a LOT of other options. Just saying. Also just because some people have trouble from time to time doent not mean that its broken across the board. If a reset or restore solves a particular issue for a LOT of folks then how is iOS itself broken? You think the restore actually rewrites the code to remove the faulty code? Its 99% of the time due to the update process itself with an app or email communicating while the update going on and getting hung. Could that be better? Probably so I will give you that. But the reality is sometimes its not. Best option is to close all apps, reboot then perform the update OTA or with iTunes with no apps open. BTW personally I only had 1 update since iOS 5 that I had to reset settings to solve a hung app issue just after the update process. A simple reset all settings solved it. And there have been a lot of updates since then. 5.0.1, 5.1, 5.1.1, 6.0. 6.0.1, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3. Have 2 devices and the other one never an issue. So point is if iOS was itself broken how do so many never have any issue whatsoever? But others (probably you) have issues every time. Something dont add up there 🙂

As for "big news" on CNET, Apple can sneeze and the CNETS's of the world will write about it. Probably because iPhone is so popular and they get major hits to their site whenever Apple is mentioned. Good for their business.

On the battery meter, its not 100% accurate, never has been. Its just there to give you an idea where you stand. Also a calibration is needed from time to time to match the actual battery capacity with the software more closely.

thai_iphone4 wrote:

Thanks for proving me correct again.

So if people complaint of battery issues and data issues after every iOS update, my theory is origin right once again. IOS BLOWS.

Maybe apple can get a clue and push updates that don't require us to reset and restore and do god knows what else.

And what about MY issue? Any thoughts? Why would it be at 99% after 3 minutes. Restart. Then it's back at 100% and stays there for 16 minutes?