iOS 6.1.3 battery drainage

its the push email setting.

once i turned it off - bam immediately stopped draining. 7hrs later.. 10% loss only.

my point though with this rant is that apple should have caught this in testing.. or at the VERY Least allow us to go back to 6.1.2! We should have to figure out how to work around issues that should not be present in an update.

I understand "stuff" happens... which is why you should be allow to revert back to a previous version. very lame imo

its not FB.. at least not for me. Its PUSH/email checking. I turned Osuh off and set it for manual checking and the battery uages is actually better than before 6.1.3 lol. BUT.. They NEED to fix this. We should have to turn off push because they screwed up

Hi to all,

After many days of research i have found the resolution for this problem im my case. I had tried all the possibilities ( install ios again, disable functions, reset network , ....etc ) and nothing will solve the battery drain , in stand-by the phone was loosing battery every 5/10 min.... Im sure that disable location, push mail , brightness, etc improves the battery capacity, but something was "eating " battery, and i could not find what it was.

😮 Here is the simple procedure that worked for me. If not, you can set it back again in 5 minutes.

Try to:

- Delete Facebook app.

- Delete Whatsapp

- Disable Icloud.

Then i fully charged my phone and in 5 hours in stand-by, the phone just lost 3% of battery, perfectly normal again.

Im not sure wich one(s) to blame the most, but surely something changed since i performed this change, so please try and see if it works for you, and give me some feedback.

Thanks, 🙂

Have to say that Push was the problem for me too. Even when I had tried turning off mail accounts completely I was still draining battery rapidly and running a hot phone. Everything else slightly improved things but Push seemed to be the big one.

Turning off Push had an instant effect. Not defending this as a solution as obviously Apple need to fix it - push email on iCloud accounts is definitely a problem for them. And it's not my account as iPad works fine.

Er, I think you will find I (we) have read the thread, we are simply saying what did finally work for us. I have been through many tweaks and prods of various things, including completely rebuilding the phone from scratch (you know this because you've clearly read my earlier comments in this thread).

The point I'm making is that turning Push off is easily overlooked for many people, including me. Logically if you disable email accounts (iCloud), the Push status shouldn't have an effect. It does. Equally if you read many "solutions" they are things that offer incremental improvements in battery life by removing functionality of the handset. Turning off 3G for example improves battery life, but it isn't the thing that was killing my phone dead after 4 hours in standby and preventing me from actually using the device as it was intended. Push is one of these features that I, for the reasons listed above, overlooked. But in this case the improvement in turning it off was significantly more than incremental, and has stopped my handset from running hot in standby. So it worked for me, and several others - we're just re-iterating that. So before you strip yourself naked and dance on a full moon whilst charging your iPhone you should perhaps double-check you've tried this.

I'm sorry it doesn't work for you, but when you do think you've finally found a fix for your battery drain problem please come back and post it here. Perhaps I can then reply to tell you it doesn't work for me and you're just wasting everybody's time.

The steps on page 1 didn't work for me (tried numerous times). Although I found a (unsatisfactory) solution (& cause) is to disable iCloud Mail, then EVERYTHING went back to normal (Bat life, performance) enabling iCloud Mail bring the prob straight back. It got so bad iCloud mail wasn't ever downloading mail, just eternally checking & killing my bat life. So Apple is forcing me to use Gmail, instead of their own mail service, would be laughable if it wasn't so ridiculous.

I can confirm that I fixed my battery drain problem by deleting my Exchange account, doing a hard reset then setting up a new Exchange account. Thanks for the help.

same here , iPhone 4 and ios 6.1.3. and suspect is the mail application. after the upgrade my mail is always as "checking". after manual shutdown the app it seems battery. I already set NOT to use push email

I agree that there is a problem, but I think that this time around it is a smaller percentage that are having the battery drain problem associated with iOS 6.1.3 I have an iPhone 4S, 32 GB, AT&T and had battery drain problems with one of the iOS 5.X updates. I did the battery discharge and full recharge, reset all settings, and have always used fetch rather than push email.

With the iOS 6.X updates, I have had very good to excellent battery life, iOS 6.1.1 did seem to have a higher than average battery drain (FOR ME) than I had seen in the others. 6.1.3 seems to be fine as far as the battery goes for me as well.

The one thing I have noticed in my very unscientific study of this problem is that the majority of people who have this problem did an over the air update, or backed up to iCloud.

I would recommend that you do your updates through iTunes, before you do the update, kill all the apps running in the background, reset the phone so that it is in a clean state (as far as memory goes) and then reset it again after it updates and you have completed your restore from your backup. Then run the battery all the way down to dead and charge it over night. This will reset the battery counter, which actually seems to be part of the problem.

I am not saying that there is not a problem with the OS and that this has to be frustrating for those that have it. I am just saying that this has worked for me and I have really good battery life for a smartphone in general. The screen draws a lot of juice, just using it to surf the web uses the battery a lot, if you use push email for work, that will also use a lot of battery. Once they finally develop a battery that holds a lot more charge than we are seeing today this might get better, But for now smartphones, Apple's as well as all the others will continue to chew through batteries like they are going out of style because they are doing so much with a tiny battery. Or we can go back to big bulky phones that have nice big batteries. The technology will eventually catch up. Until then we sadly need to either carry a backup battery/charger or not use all the cool features that we have been promised on our phones.

I am looking forward to Google finally making Google Now available to iPhone and I am sure it will eat my battery alive because it will need to use location services which means GPS.

Joe, That's clearly not acceptable, and it is a real problem. It's a problem that has been reported sporadically for as long as there have been iPhones, however; it isn't something new. Just new to you unfortunately.

One thing to try that some people have reported success with in the past is to run the battery all the way down until it shuts off, then charge it for 4 hours with the wall charger. When it shuts off it kills all running processes, and charging it after that recalibrates the battery gauge. with luck the "stuck" process will not restart.

I have tried all solutions in this thread as well as others and there has been some improvement. not much drain on idle screen. it seems to depend on the apps you use from what i can see as the battery drains a little faster when using a few apps but its less than before now. Here is what i did ---

1.Full restore from itunes.

2.put off all noticfications for each and every app.

3.turned off icloud.

4.put push to off for all email accounts.

5.drained battery by playing games with full screen brightness till the phone went off.

6.kept it on charging and reset network settings and put the phone on airplane mode.

7.Once it was completely charged i played hawx 2-3 missions,texting on watsapp,little bit of emails and twitter and the battery drained to 48% after 5 hours. It would drain a lot faster before.

I also read it helps if you do a full battery drain and full recharge 3 times.....not sure how will that help but gonna give it a try. I updated my phone as soon as i got it and connected it to itunes. Not sure how the battery life was on 6.1.2. Can only hope apple fixes this soon otherwise a really good phone. I have used nokias,blackberrys,andriods but ios really stands apart.

well after 3 or so days of no phone or itouch usage and probably hours of testing, including wiping and restored both devices (to no avail) and all the apps and map data etc, which took 8 hours each just to do the itunes. what PIA!! But, i finally got both devices back. now i'm at ~5 hours standby and i'm still on 100% on both. both devices are cool to the touch, not warm.

i turned off every every feature to no avail (and i mean everything, no email, no apps, no icloud, nada) one by one until the last 2, and unfortunately i didn't do them one at a time.

safari (icloud)

facetime.

one of those 2 apps was killing my phone and itouch. i don't use facetime but it was always 'on'. i rarely use safari.

one of them or both was draining the battery so fast (3 hours complete discharge) that the iphone actually stayed warm the whole time.

so i'm done, and now MUCH smarter about not jumping every time apple has an update. i'd rather have security holes than this awful mess.

i just hope my batteries were not damaged by this.

Haha ok Its fine if you dont care what I say as my battery works fine so only you have anything to loose. So as for your proof, you need to go looking through all these forums and read the replies that folks say "this resolved my issue" when speaking of a restore or reset all settings or reset network settings or delete and add back exchange email accts after any upgrade. Look back since iOS 5 (I wont ask you to go further because you probably wont even look at all) but there are countless folks who state those above items have resolved their issues that appears immediately after an update process. No where have I said to turn off any features. However its common since that you dont need every application running notifications or locations all the time. Only having the ones you need is he correct (Apple specified BTW) process for any smart phone. However if you choose to have everything on for every app thats your choice but it comes at a cost. Anyway you can state whatever you want but the reality is there are fixes that do work and have been for a long time thoughout the life of iOS. To answer your question "Tell me this? Why does it work for some and not others?", its because of an upgrade gone bad or a rougue app or setting in your particular device. if you think about it if it were entirely iOS version 6.1.x at fault then everyone would have issues correct? All I can tell you is you can be bull headed if you want and keep ranting here doing yourself or no one else any good, or try and see if maybe just maybe some of here actually know what we are talking about. Restore your device using iTunes. Do NOT install any apps and see how it performs. If it still performs bad then you have a bad device,battery r in an area with poor signal causing drain.. IF it works then add your stuff back and see when it breaks again (yes when) then you can laugh your A** off because you didn realize that AppX was doing Y causing all these issues. If you are at all interested, WhatsApp, Facebook and most any app constantly looking for locations or GPS are great places to look the the offending application. BTW you also stated that your iPad works great now. What do you mean by "now"? Did you do something to it? What iOS version is it running? Also think about this. iPad does not use cellular so a poor signal area would not cause any issues on iPad yes?

Again If you want the "proof " you asked for for me to be able to respond to your posts read through the thousands of threads regarding battery life after any update you want and you will see countless responses of "Thanks that solved my issues" responding to some of the fixes mentioned.

Papasin73 wrote:

We can go back and fourth with this! But I don't care what you say.....it's the firmware! Lol I did a lot of the steps posted here and elsewhere, at first battery worked great! Than it went down again. I'm not getting the battery usage I use to get when I first received my ipad mini on November 2nd. My son had an update for his android phone, no problems with the battery. Same settings, same apps. When and if Apple admits the firmware was the cause of the battery drain I'm gonna laugh my blank off. Or if some other update comes out and people are getting better battery life ill do the same, laugh my blank off.

Almost everyone at the Apple store doesn't have a battery problem? I'm sure! No one from Apple will admit it, only a few have told me they believe its the firmware. I say the sky is blue, you say it's purple. I'm right on this one. You can say people have fixed their battery all you want, all they did was disable features on the iPhone. Tell me this? Why does it work for some and not others? As soon as someone updates the battery fails? Something got caught up during the update? Lol...all of this makes me laugh because I have NO PROOF these fix it yourself works.

Please don't reply to my posts unless you have solid proof. My ipad works great now! Thanks! See...it's that easy.

Thanks for responding and letting the folks here know. Glad that resolved your issue. BTW here is one instance of Proof that Papasin whatever was asking for.

krotik wrote:

Hello guys, had the same problem with battery drainage after updating to 6.1.3 - BUT it gone when i did RESET my IPHONE in itunes. Now it's back to normal. Try it!

Yes its a software problem. Typically caused by the update process itself. The reset all settings option only resets all the iPhoines default settings to the versions for that particular version of iOS. It does not remove your apps or data so you are safe to do it. You will have to add any wifi networks back in and change your wallpaper back. Plus any settings you have modified like turning off diagnostica and data or timezone location stull like that. Just do it and when it reboots select set up as new and run through the wizard and within a few minutes you wull be back at your desktop with all your apps intact. As a 2nd part of the process, allow the device o drain all the way down until it turns itself off. Then plug in and allow it to charge undisturbed for at least 1.5 hrs past when it shows 100% (overnight is great). Thats' it! As for other tips to help get the most out of your battery you may not have seen mentioned, do the following:

settings>privacy>location and way down at the bottom system settings, Turn off all except Cell network,Compass and traffic.

While in settings>privacy>location turn off any apps you dont really need knowing your location. If you use it or want it leave it on otherwise off is a better option

Now settings>general>about and down near bottom diagnostics and usage (set to do not send) Thats not really needed unless Apple support asks you to turn it on.

Lastly any notifications you dont use or need (maybe stocks app for example) turn off. Again if you want it or need it certainly leave it on but if not turning those unneeded ones off does wonders for battery life in general. Good luck!