Battery rundown with iOS 8.3 on iPhone 4S

Apple's not listening--you would have known this had you actually read the Terms of Use of this forum that YOU agreed to by signing up to post.

Have you taken the basic troubleshooting steps Apple recommends? What exactly HAVE you done to troubleshoot your issue?

Best,

GDG

Seriously, GDG? Do you actually consider your condescending reply to be helpful? And signing off with "Best" does not mask your disingenuity.

And how exactly did this question get marked "Solved?" Sure it is. Ha!

Wormbrains, the best explanation I've seen suggests that the problem may lie with misbehaving apps that have yet to be updated for 8.3. If so, only time (or one-by-one deletion of apps) will tell. And if it is a problem with the iOS, hopefully Apple (who does read many of the posts here) will resolve it soon.

This is a serious problem for many of us. Especially those of us with older phones with aging batteries.

hello,

after ios 8.3, i have the same problem with my 4S ( new battery, 6 months old ). my girlfriend who has the same device, no problem.

i've tried everything to solve but nothing yet.

shutting down 3g of wifi does help a little ( this night 25 % loss instead of 50 ). its the only thing that helps a little

i have also noticed when you look in the menu at the battery you can see a stand-by time which is almost similar with the usage time. like this night 10.50 h stand-by but also 10 h in use ??? and when having 3g or wifi it drains the battery.

i don't have the impression that, when using the device, it drains more than before, only when not using.

hope there will be a solution soon........

why we are buying apple stuff?i thing just to suffer nothing else.this update battery ***** ...honest advice now apple changed a lot.dont go with apple ..android is far better...pricey useless products from apple.just good for show off

as a final attempt to solve this i've installed IOS8.2 again, but sadly not with the result i've hoped for. battery still drains, although a bit less then before but still around 15% in 2.5 h, and stand-by / usage time of the battery are still alike.

i've made a comparison with the device of my girlfriend within the settings but everything is similar, except for the standby / usage time which is correct in her case.

i'm out of options now 😠

The problem with the 8.3 update and the horrible battery drain on my 4s is now gone. I had tried practically everything I have read about with no effect. I turned off Background Refresh and Location Services, reset the phone, removed a number of apps, etc. Many things, in fact.

There has been much speculation about what has caused this problem, and best I can tell, Apple has not publicly addressed it. Of course it's possible that an iOS update could cause such an issue, but the most reasonable explanation I have found is misbehaving apps that need to be updated.

On Tuesday morning, there were 12 apps on my phone that had updates available. I updated them. Suddenly my phone's battery is behaving like it did before the update. It has been 3 days now and everything appears to be fine. I had changed no settings (nor made any other changes) in several days, so it seems obvious to me that one or more of these apps were causing my problems. For what it's worth, I read every last "What's New" in these updates and not one mentioned anything that suggested a fix for power or battery issues.

Since my issue is resolved, I have no way of determining which of these apps were (or may have been) causing the problem, but I am listing them here for the benefit of the community:

Kroger

Skype for iPhone

Spotify Music

Accuweather

SoundHound

IMDB Movies and TV

Dictionary.com

Weather Underground

TuneIn Radio

Sputnik!

Schlotsky's Lotz4Me

Dark Sky

Hello! I'm facing the same issue on my iPhone 4s running on iOS 8.3. So, if I need to consider updating apps which otherwise might gobble-up the battery, I shouldn't think about it for the next second! I need to do that ASAP. There are three apps that need update and haven't been updated since 6 months. The reason being, they have "some" features that I could be lost/removed if I update them.

Apps like ShareIt, Xender and iZip Pro to be specific. They offered sharing Music Files and I would lose that option if I update them, and that's the reason I haven't updated them since 6 or more months. Guess that's the reason? I'll delete them and check if I face battery drain issues. I'll post my battery benchmark score below.

Hey @wormbrains. You're not the only one to be a victim of this battery drain issue. That being said, Apple might patch the issue in iOS 9, hopefully, since it is a major issue even for an old phone. It's not something they would just throw away from the table. I pray they fix that issue.

I'm losing 1% every minute if I use it. On standby, it's approximately 1% every hour.

I'll post the battery benchmark scores below. It might help, or atleast if Apple reads this, they'll understand what's going on suddenly with iOS 8.3 that never existed before.

TEST 1A:

Here's the battery Benchmark result when Transparency (Settings>General>Accessibility>Increase Contrast>Reduce Transparency) was ON but Wi-Fi was turned OFF during the test (and turned ON later)

TEST 1A:

Detailed

TEST 1B:

Here's another (second) round of the test where Transparency was turned on as well as Wi-Fi throughout the test; The results are horrible:

Just take a look at the Battery Runtime. 20 minutes for the battery to drop from 64% to 72%.

TEST 1B:

Detailed

So the conclusion of this test is, there's some trouble with iOS 8.3 itself. Or why would I worry so much now about this issue when transparency already existed since iOS 7 through now?

Hope you share this image wherever possible and whenever/if you think this might lead to an update that might put a hold to Battery Drain issues once and for all, to all those iPhone users throughout the world.