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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Posted on Mar 25, 2013 1:48 PM

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

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Sep 9, 2013 10:22 AM in response to Timurjonchik

When will people realize that we are the guinea pigs for Apple. This battery drain problem is something they should have already addressed. Apple never admits to any problems with their OS or products. Turning off all of the services on the iphone doesn't even fix the problem. And even if it did, who wants a phone that you can't use any of the features that make it useful. They wouldn't even admit the iPad had a screen leakage problem. I tried 5 times to get an iPad without the problem. Gave up and got a refund. This battery problem has finally done it for me. I was going to switch from a PC to a Mac with my next computer purchase, but I'm tired of being the guinea pig "tester" for their "chinese junk". NO MORE APPLE FOR ME!!!!!!!!

Sep 9, 2013 6:16 PM in response to Bogwon

Hey man! What's with the RACIAL SLUR???? If you are ****** off with Apple, then keep it within Apple products! You don't include irresponsible comments. If you read through the worthy posts in this thread, you will find good suggestions that would get your battery problems fixed. All it takes is just a few minutes of your time. If people like you would stop making unneccessary comments on the thread, then it would be much faster to find the solutions that everybody needs.

Dec 14, 2013 10:34 PM in response to yarrow andy

Been their done it, tried. Apple have to take responsibility and compensate when all alternatives have failed. As wit my phone, although they were fully aware what would happen with introduction of ios7, they have not taken ownership of problems caused by them. I now have a dead phone not fit for purpose. On the positive i now know who apple are. Best of luck. No doubt as previously this comment will be removed

Mar 22, 2014 2:55 PM in response to Timurjonchik

I bought my Sprint iphone 4s in November 2012. For the first year, it worked normally, with no real problems....other than the vibrate function not being very strong. I do not use it every day, and often don't turn it on for days at a time. Recently I have had problems with the battery draining completely if I leave it in sleep mode overnight. Meaning of course, that I could not use it as an alarm. It is now draining at about 10% per hour......on standby. Also, at times, when it drains like this it becomes hot to the touch.

Currently, it is using ios 6.1.3, but I don't know whether I updated to that during the first year. I am wondering if this is a battery problem, software problem or hardware problem. The overheating makes me think hardware or shorting problem. The fact that it worked great for the first year makes me think battery problem. But a lot has been written about the ios problems, so I'm not sure. Suppose I could change battery and see if that helps. Looking for ideas. Thanks.

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