Q: Iphone 4s ios 7 battery issues

7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4 were all the same for me - battery life halved.

I have come to this conclusion, after so many posts being deleted, that this whole dead battery and ios7 is not apples fault,, they have a perfect record, and can do NO wrong. We the consumers are to blame for all of this, and it is our fault for not devoting enough time to understanding the outstanding quality of the great wonderful world of apple, and their perfect products. I say we should all first buy a new battery for our iphone 4/4s, and then rush out real quick and purchase a new iphone.. while we are at it, we should buy a new mac book pro, a new ipad, and a new ipod, never sparing any expense, for these wonderful and perfect tools apple is so conveniently supplying to us consumers. If it wasn't for the grand priviledge apple provides us, the meager consumer, to indulge in their fine products, we would be without user friendly products, and be stuck using some product which cannot compare to the wonderous world apple provides each and everyone one of us. I personally would like to thank apple, for the great prodcuts they supply, and I apologise for my inability to understand such high quality operating systems, and technilogical genious.

Apple is so great!

Sadly it isn't just iphones either, check out these horror stories especially in the last few pages of the thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/24166077

I have gotten rid of my iPhon 4s, and I am about to rush out and buy the newest, the latest, the greatest of apple products. I am going to go into debt because apple products are so wonderful, and I cannot live without such high quality. Since there is no greater customer service in any industry,I find life is not worth living without my apple products.

I gave my phone to my aunt, she is going to london tomorrow. I wrote to her the problem I am getting with my 4S after installing iOS7, we will see what the Apple ppl there will tell her.

Fix the battery?

Repalce with a 4s and pay $$$?

Replace with 5s and pay $$$?

I will let you know guys.

***Shao Lung***

I suffered the exact same astronomical-battery-drain issue after deciding to give up my beloved JB'ed state (5.0.1) and move up to 7.0.4 on Sunday. After trying the googled 'solutions' of "7 ways to reduce drain" or "11 ways" I saw that they weren't helping.

But - good news! (at least for me) - it is now fixed as of last night thanks to reading someone's suggestion (from somewhere in this thread, I think) to not "restore from a previous backup" after completing the firmware installation.

Yes, it's a pain having to download all the Apps again, and lose Messages/PhoneCall history (probably because I wasn't using iCloud).. but at least the battery is operating normally again.

I no longer feel frustrated/perplexed about what could've been causing the battery drain, because my phone is now running fine with the latest firmware.

Is that true? I'm still hesitant to upgrade my ios 6 because of battery drain issue

do not do it!!!

Yes, it's true that I don't have the battery-drain issue any more. Maybe other people's phones are different but the reason I signed up for an account just so I could post to this forum is to let others, that are in the same painful boat as I was, know that there is a solution - and I give credit to 'yzzyx' on page 23 because it never occurred to me to not restore my phone backup immediately after updating the firmware. Just make sure you backup all the files and data configs you can before updating.. I had my photos and QuickOffice docs so that was enough for me.

If you're on ios6 and don't want to risk it with ios7 then I say wait.. in my case, I'd waited long enough between updates and some of my fav apps were starting to report that they need minimum-ios6.

My iphone 4s is 2 years old.. I bought it in Nov11 on 24mth contract, and now that I'm off-contract, I'm waiting for a better iphone release than the 5s before I get on another contract.

Experiencing same problem with 2 yr old iphone 4s. Battery is draining on my eyes((

Auto update, wifi, 3g and cell data, airdrop, icloud, auto download, mail refresh, geolocation, NAME IT is O F F.

1% in a couple of minutes. Frustrating it is!

Apple, please, do something!

From Russia with hope!

After having similar problems I ordered a new battery and reset my iPhone 4S as a new iPhone and still drops a a percent after a few minutes, but my brothers 4S can go 8 hours and only drop 5 percent?? Both iPhones are on the latest iOS 7 so this makes me think that it is not a software problem.

Danny - how do you conclude its software? You just swapped the battery and still get the same issue? Your evidence supports it being software and not hardware..

I think - ok, i'm almost sure - it's a software problem. I had the problem and it went away. No new iPhone, no new battery, nothing changed the hardware.

I guess it's caused by a combination of how iOS7 handles background activity and apps that don't work the way they should work. This makes finding a solution very difficult, since a combination of things have to happen in order to trigger the bug.

In my case turning of mail fetching (no push or scheduled) resulted in the iPhone battery lasting 3 days (opposed to not even 6 hours). After a few days I turned mail fetching on (every 15min) and now my iPhone battery lasts almost 2 days (back to normal) - with WiFi, bluetooth, 3G enabled.

Do not update pasted Ios 6.13 ... keep your phone where it is at. I had to get rid of mine because, I could not use it as an alarm clock even... battery would die before the alarm would be schedualed.