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
all i know for battery life, constantly closing my apps properly keeps life, also not always having location services on and keeping it on silent with no vibrate helps. obvious they are though
screen brightness and also since i experienced this issue with 6.1.3 i did the following and it worked for me (listed this on page 3 but ill re list of people havent looked through the post)
go to settings - mail, contacts, calendars
go into icloud mail and turn each switch off one by one making sure you select the save to iphone option not delete
then repeat this on each email account folder
once all are at off ensure all apps are closed and hard reset phone (home and power) this will restart the phone after a few seconds
let it start up and then go back into the same settings and turn each switch back to on
im not sure if it will work for everyone but it worked for me so if youve not tried it, its worth a go, and seems less complicated than deleting all your apps and having wifi and 3g off etc
hope it works for you
Dont think there will be a 6.1.4....maybe directly IOS 7. Till then no options but to carry charger around.
I have not done anything and today @ noon my battery life went back to normal. My calendar
App kept accessing the server and no longer does that.
I solved my battery drainage. I bought a Mophie Juice Pack Air case for my iPhone5. If the phone dies, I flip a switch and I have 8 more hours or so.
You can go back to IPSW 6.1.2 but you will need them to reflash device
ios 6.1.4 is here!
with ios 6.1.4 my iphone 5 is now havin great battery duration, 42 minuts on 100% (ios 6.1.3 it was mainting at 100% 20 minuts) ,
7:19 hours tough usage, with 19 hrs standby.
when your iphone 5 is full charged , try to reset 4 times and you ll see that once your battery will drop from full charged to 95%, or 93 %, then let it charging and you ll get real battery duration.
I must say that after upgrading to 6.1.4 the battery life of my iPhone 5 improved enormously! Able to get close to 8 hours of usage now up from around 5 with 6.1.3
Not in the slightest strange. NORMAL. The overwhelming majority of iPhone users never have a problem. It's only the exceptions that come and report problems. That's what the forum is for; to get help with issues.
+1 Same problem after upgrading iPhone5 from 6.1.2 to 6.1.3. Even when I'm not using my phone, the battery percentage is dropping quickly. Very bad situation with this product. Apple - need to do something!!!
Lawrence Finch you are a life saver. Followed your simple instructions. 6% chewed up in 4 hours. Back to normal. Follow Larry's instructions on the first page. No wiping / no restore / no deleting exhange account.
Brilliant +1.
I did the same thing twice and i don't even have an exchange account. It still drains battery and for some reason the gets very hot even when i don't use it. Once again my phone was pefectly fine untill I made an update 😟
I'm sorry but that will only work for a few days...tech support had me do that. Sometimes I feel like Apple and these forums have no idea what the problem is. It's like back in the 1800's being sold snake oil....lol. Nothing works! No magic potion for a longer battery life! Apple has to fix this issue with a proper firmware. Hopefully we will see one soon. I have an ipad mini and iPod touch that both have battery issues...not lasting long. Just use it and charge it until Apple helps out their customers. It stinks, it's not fun, it's frustrating, and you don't get to use your device properly. Call me Mr. Negative? I'm just telling the truth. Good luck!
But if the snake oil makes you feel better....keep on taking it.
Well in that case ill try that again and if that doesn't work ill try something else, why be so negative? Maybe it will solve it in mine and others cases?
If you're so down on the battery issues then why own several devices?
Final verdict, Started at 6:00am yesterday - 100%.
1 hour listing to music while working out.
1 hour playing a tower defense game
1 hour reading a book
the rest was standard on an off mail checking, facebook, webstuff, calls, txt's, photos at bday party
Ended at 9:45pm yesterday - 45%
supper thrilled, back to normal. Thanks again larry.
The day before that i had to charge it 3 times during the day.
iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage
