iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

For me one good thing was remembering to turn off unused app via double click at bottom of HomeScreen..

Press on icon Red _ ciricle to upper left..use to close all apps you aren't using. DO IT EVERYTIME YOU USE PHONE!

But BEST BEST was to find that hidden MAIL iCloud Mail Fetch!!! and turn it to MANUAL

Find it by going to Settings > Mail, Contacts,Calendars >FETCH NEW DATA> (turn off) Turn PUSH off ..

and then scroll down off screen to ADVANCED>iCloud and select MANUAL...

With this your phone wont look for mail until you open mail app!

So far Since 10 PM last night at 98% I was 96% at 8 this AM and now at 1:30 PM at 85%.. I have used phone a bit, but not much.

'cell network search' is only needed if you are in an area where you will be roaming on another carriers signal. Other than that leaving it off should have no impact.

Unfortunately I always have had all those settings turned off, both before and after 6.1.3 and I still had the battery drainage issue. The biggest improvement for me came from turning off iCloud Docs & Data and going to Settings > mail, contacts, calendars > Fetch new data (off) > scroll down to 'Advanced' > set all mail accounts to 'manual'

It appears this new settings option added with 6.1.3, 'advanced', was set to 'fetch' by default during the update which caused my mail to continue checking for new messages in the backround even though the 'old' settings had stayed set to 'manual' (fetch 'off') for checking for new messages.

I had huge battery drain issues. I logged out of Chrome browser and turned off sync and as if by magic, my battery life doubled.

It's been fine ever since but then today I needed some stuff from Chrome on my mac, turned on sync and logged in to my Google account. And suddenly boom, my battery turned to ****. Today my battery has died twice as fast as usual and the only thing I've changed is logging in to my Google account and turning sync on.

If you've got chrome installed and having battery issues, please try logging out of your google account and turning off sync.

It would be worth rebooting once you've done it.

Whether its chrome or not, I would be willing to bet a lot of money that most people's issues are revolving around syncing.

Hi everybody. Im following this threat a long time ago, i have too an iphone 4s and i was getting battery draining and heat problems. I do not think it is useful to attack betwen us, if some comment is not useful just ignore it, that makes a good threat and post, good 😉

I want to share my experience, my battery start to last half a day with the same use that i was doing with ios 6.1.2 but now my phone dies some in half of the day and it need to be recharged.

Firts good thing i do was change push emails into fentch every hour. With that my phone do not become hot anymore but battery duration do not improve much. Then i turn off location settings and reset the phone. Now battery last a full day. Today i have turned off "netwok search" (setting, privacy, localization, system settings) and 12 hour after i have unplugged my phone i have 49% battery left4 hours 3 minutes using and 12 hours standby. My phone is not hot anymore and my batttery seems to be really ok this time. give it a try if you can

Excuse my bad english :-p Im from Argentina

abrazos

If you, at any time, hit Yes when an app asked you to use Location, then it turns Location Services ON. Even if initially you disabled it.

Saying YES at any time will then turn on all System Location Services.

At some point you said YES to location and that's why it was ON. It won't turn on by itself.

If you go to General - Reset - Reset All Settings, it will reset everything to factory default and Location Services will be OFF. Because it didn't ask you the Default setting for it is OFF.

The only thing to do is when you fully charge it, hard reset it and let it reboot. That's about all you can do.

Also. iCloud has always been crap, so if you don't need it, Delete the account.

Push doesn't make any difference in my experience. System Locations had an issue a while ago that I experienced where I could see the Location icon show up all the time. I just turned off all System Location. For me it was the one for Time Zone. Now I just keep locations off. Don't need it anyway.

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FYI; So far 6.1.4 has had no impact on my iPhone 5 battery life which was back to normal after settings changes made from earlier posts in this thread.

Update: After reporting about the new Google Now App causing excesive battery drain due to the location sensor indicator (triangle by battery %) being continuously on even after closing the App I discovered how to disable it. In addition to having the Loacation services 'switch' for Google in Settings > privacy > Location services > Google 'on' which is required to use all the features. Their is also an additional settings menu within the Google App itself, click the Gear Icon > Privacy > scroll down to 'Location Reporting' and turn the switch off. While there you may also want to turn off the 'On-Divice History' which stores all your physical location history in a hidden file on your iPhone and can be reported to Google if set to do so. IMHO this just takes up storage space on the phone and I don't want Google to keep track of where I've been.

After turning off 'Location Reporting' the Active Location trangle is no longer continuously on and it only appears breifly when searching or finding your location on maps. So far all the other features seem to still function properly and no noticable impact on battery life.

Q: Apple says one app is "hanging" your iPhone reducing battery life: who is the killer?

A: I analyzed some hundreds of common iPhone applications during the past 2 weeks to see how they work in background and found something:

Try to disable "Passbook" from localization services. This app keeps connecting hysterically in background even if app itself is not launched.

I tested this on several iPhone 5 and iPhone 4s, mainly running iOS 6.1.3 and even 6.1.4 for the last few days: standby battery life is greatly improved on these devices.

Results may vary in your iPhone, but give it a try and let me know.

Hi. I've been keeping a close eye on these forums since suffering form the dreaded 6.1.3 battery drainage issue and I think I've finally cracked it. I downloaded IOS 6.1.3 over the Easter Weekend and on returning to work found that my battery had drained to 20% within four hours of taking it off charge. Having researched various forums over the following week I became convinced that something in 6.1.3 had interacted with my iPhone 5 configuration to cause battery drain issues. In fact I don't believe the battery was draining fast at all, rather the OS thought it was and reported it as such before shutting down when it thought it had drained completely.

I tried restoring the phone before reinstating my Apps etc. from the back up. There was no improvement and I was forced to keep my phone on charge while driving to the office and during the day at my desk.

Yesterday I read a post where someone suggested restoring to factory default using iTunes but without restoring the backed up apps and data afterwards. Instead I set up the iPhone as a new device. The only other changes I made were to setup Outlook Exchange, Hotmail, Bluetooth and my home and work wireless network settings. The battery held its charge just like the good old days throughout yesterday evening. I powered down the phone and put it on charge last night then took it off charge with 100% at 06:30 this morning.

I drove to the office without charging the phone, and it's now been exactly five hours since it came off charge and the battery level is showing 89%. Up until yesterday my phone would have died by now.

My next step will be to reinstall the Apps gradually, one by one, direct from the App Store rather than from my last iTunes back up. Fingers crossed!!!!!

IOS 6.1.3 was intended to address battery drainage issues already out there but it appears to have exacerbated the problem rather than resolve it. I've documented elswhere in this post trail the steps I took so this is by way of an update.

It's now 6 days since I factory reset my iPhone 5 using iTunes and configured it as a new device rather than restore the backed up apps and data. My battery life continues to hold up at levels experienced prior to updating to IOS 6.1.3. Today I took it off overnight charge at 0630, used bluetooth for around an hour while driving to the ofifce then disabled it again. I've been picking up emails from Outlook Exchange and Hotmail, a few short calls made and received and browsing news sites. My battery is curretnly on 69% after 10hours 45 minutes use today. That's under 3% battery drainage per hour.

my usage stats as of 17:15 today are:

Usage 2 Hours, 22 minutes

Standby 10 hours, 40 minutes

If it helps I've listed the 20 apps I reinstalled (direct from App Strore over WiFi), those that I didn't reinstall and those that have location services turne on (LS on)

Reinstalled:

Not reinstalled

Location Services On for:

Camera

Facebook

Find Friends

Google Maps

Met Office

RAC Traffic

Sports Tracker

Weather

I've read posts by other who say this workaround lasted maybe a week before their batter drainage went of the cliff again. So far I've had solid battery life for upwards of 14-15 hours a day with no need to recharge.

Hope this works for some of you but I'm sure it won't do the trick for everyone.

PapaSin69

While it may not fix 'battery life' it does fix things that CALCULATE battery life for iOS.

My 4s is showing a nasty habit of going at 100-75% in a reasonable period of time... even extended (like it would last for 2 days). But once under 40%, it starts dropping precipiticely. The last 2 times I've let it get below 45%, I've seen it either:

1) go to sleep at 45%, then wakeup minutes later at 10%, and then go immediately to 1% and power down automatically. I then tried to restart, and it showed battery needing charging. I plugged in the charger, and as soon as it restarted, I did 3 soft resets. When it restarted after the 3rd, it was at 46% power, not 3 minutes after plugging in the charger.

2) yesterday, I left in the morning at 92% (my wife commandeered my charger saying her 2% was more important). at 3pm, it was at 25%. Wife facetimes me. At the end of the 2 min call, it was at 1%, and immediately powered down. I tried viewing the screen, and got the need charging signal. I then tried power-on and got the apple, so I did 3 soft resets. Lo and behold, it came up at 15%, and ran for 1.5 hours just fine, with me surfing on wifi.

I'm stopping at the apple genius bar today to discuss this. My guess is the PMU logic is flawed, and well, my 1.5 year old battery is likely starting to show wear as well.

But, to your point, phone resets do improve the phones energy consumption or prediction of power needs/capacity-calculation.

HI StaticFX. Firstly, I don't work for, or represent Apple and I strongly suspect that to be the case with the rest of the good folk in this trail. It amuses me how some people use these forums as a platform for a rant at ordinary guys (and girls) like yourself. Call Apple and have a good old rant at them!!!!!

Secondly, while you may think it's ridiculous that "we" as a group of ordinary iPhone users have shared our varous experiences with the fallout from 6.1.3 as well as the success (or failure) of any work arounds we may have tried, some of us have actually found it to be useful. Be that "switching things on and off, unistalling etc" or trying the workaround that appears to have resolved the issue for me.

I suffered exctly the same probem that you have described, losing all of my battery within 4 to 5 hours of taking it off charge, after upgrading to 6.1.3 over the Easter Weekend. You'll see, if you scroll back a few pages and read my earlier posts, that I even tried a factory restore but made the mistake of restoring my apps and data from the iTune back up. Result - battery drain issue remained.

I then tried another suggestion, namely restoring as a new device then reinstalling the apps individually from the App Store over Wi-Fi. Result - since 8th May (23 days now) my iPhone 5 again holds a charge throughout the day from around 7am until I get my head down at 11pm. During that time I make and receive calls, send and receive emails (outlook exchange and hotmail), maybe do a bit of browsing etc.

At the time of writing this, my phone has been off charge (100%) since 7.30am. It's now almost 3pm so at 64% after 7.5 hours I've lost 4.8% per hour. I've left Bluetooth running so if I'd remembered to turn it off when I got out of the car this morning I'd probably have only lost around 3% to 3.5% per hour. I have four apps open and all mail accounts turned on.

I've read other posts where this appraoch only workd for a week or so before the drainage problem returned. Clearly I have been lucky in lasting out over three weeks.

I'm not saying my fix works for everyone, but if it helps anyone then that's a good thing. I agree that Apple as a corporation, having been happy to take people's hard earned money are frankly taking the **** in not publicly acknowledging the issue but then they do have a share price to consider!!!!!

Finally, for what it's worth I don't actually believe the probelm is with the battery but with the software that monitors and reports battery usage. If it "thinks" the battery has reached 0%, it will power the device down regardless. I wonder whether anyone who is currently losing the whole 100% within a few hours has tried removing the battery and putting it into an identical iPhone model and checking what battery strenth is reported.

You're convinced it's the email causing the issue. Maybe for your device it is. Email works fine on mine therefore it seems equally probable that different devices are affected in different ways.

I'd be interested to know how long your improved battery performance lasts and what happens if you're brave enough to try turning on email again at some point. Good Luck 🙂

Ok team... I was holding on to 5.1.1 but our company made 6.1.3 mandatory for all Apple devices, so I had to bite the bullet. I have an iPhone 4S and I must say that with my method for upgrading I'm now enjoying better battery life. I upgraded 10 days ago.

My method is a bit extreme since you'll have to start with your phone as it was brand new and you'll have to start from scratch with your apps, but at least for me it has worked so far.

Quanta's Upgrade Method (tm)

Before starting charge your phone to 100%

1- Start with a Factory Reset (erase all content and settings) with your current iOS version.

2- Delete your current backups and library from iTunes (google delete iTunes library for instructions). The idea is to start with an empty iTunes since you'll setup your phone as a new one.

3- Connect your iPhone to your computer and fire up iTunes. You'll start as if your phone and iTunes are brand new. Let it run the first update check and it will tell you that there's a new version of iOS. Click download and install and let it perform the update.

4- Disconnect your phone and do a new factory reset (erase all content and settings), also delete your backup and library.

5- Do the basic setup on the phone again and reconnect to the computer and set it up in iTunes again.

6- At this point I started installing my apps via Wifi. I've installed the basic apps that I use on a daily basis: Whatsapp, Viber, Skype, Dropbox, Google Maps and YouTube. And just a couple of games, Cut the rope, fruit ninja and Angry Birds.

7- I've also set my two main Email accounts. The one from work (Exchange) and my personal Gmail account (on Exchange mode). Both have Push Email active. My Gmail accounts is also synching my contacts.

8- I've activated iCloud for Find my iPhone and also to sync my notes and bookmarks. All other options from iCloud are off.

9- Last step was to charge again to 100% and then use it normally until the phone shuts down, this will allow you to calibrate the battery circuit under the new OS

With this method I'm getting through the day easily with my phone. I have 3G and data ON all the time, and I receive quite a few emails daily. I must say that with the new OS I saw on my standby usage stats the words "1 day and x hours..." For the first time, since with 5.1.1 I would only get a max of 18-19 hours of standby, even with light use.

This weekend I'm planning to apply the same method to upgrade my iPad 3 to 6.1.3 (it's also on 5.1.1), Ill report the results. If you have any questions let me know.

I had the same battery issues on my iPhone 4S. Tried hard resets etc. I have about 30 apps using 'Location Services'. I have turned Location Services off on all my apps (except Find My Phone) and the battery life is now much much better.

Although everyone is pointing to 6.1.3 as the issue, could it be that many of us have the same rogue App on our phones that is causing the issue. And it's quite possible that App was updated shortly after 6.1.3 was released?

I am turning Location Services back on app-by-app to see if any particular one causes the battery drain. Would be nice if Apple had an app to show us how much battery each app is using at any one time.

Two weeks ago my phone was turned off over night due to battery drainage (even though it had aound 80% battery when I went to sleep). Just like that. Suddenly. So I came in here and read everything you all said and tried a variety of solutions and combinations of solutions. I turned off 3G and WiFi and iCloud and Push and it kind of worked but not so...Then a week ago I posted my problem on my facebook page to see if anyone else around me was having similar problems and a friend replied "it's the Facebook App. no joke". I had already read smth about that on the internet. Some developer it seems, did some tests and thinks that it's the Facebook App causing the drainage (if you google 'facebook draining battery on iphone' you can read what he says). So I deleted the Facebook App and all the apps that go with it (Messenger, Pages) mainly because I was desperate since I was leaving for a 1 week camping trip and did not want to risk not having battery. AND IT WORKED! My battery behaved normally (with 3G, Wi-Fi, iCloud, Push turned OFF mind you). NOW, personally I don't think it's only Facebook to blame, because as some people in here said, they do not have Facebook and their batteries are still draining fast. But for those of you that do have Facebook, try deleting it and see if it makes a difference. You can always use Facebook through Safari. Still, I think that there are more things to blame for the drainage, incl. 3G, Wi-Fi, Push, iCloud so I am keeping all these switched off and turning them on only when I need them (I have only switched Find My iPhone on). I hope a solution is found, however, because I agree with what some of you have said in here: what's the point of having a smartphone if you need to have all these disabled...our iphones were functioning perfectly. What happened suddenly?