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Apple Confirms Battery Life Issues With iOS 5, Software Update Coming

aristotle said:
Turning off the Timezone feature stopped the battery drain on my 4S and it has lasted two days so far on a single charge.
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Strange. I have just about everything turned on, auto timezone, bluetooth, wifi, find my iPhone, iCloud syncing, etc, and don't have a battery life issue. Today was my first light day with the phone and now at 6pm it is showing 83% battery life remaining. Most days I use it a lot more that it is below 20% when I plug it in. I am around wifi pretty much all day, so perhaps the bug has something to do with using cell network data.
 
Oh my god my battery is at 20% instead of 25% at the end of the day! What am I going to do!

Really .... It's a non issue for me. I have never ran out of battery power on my iPhone 4 or 4s. I plug it in every night and life is good.

Nothing to see here. Move along, move along, move along.
 
f00f said:
Unfortunately devs are having a chore of a time installing the seed; it refuses to be activated, claiming the device isn't registered as part of the developer program despite the UDID being listed. This is regardless of device (iPad, 4S, etc).

le sigh.
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Mine installed just fine
 
I had no issues with ios 5 battery life on either my AT&T iPhone 4 or Verizon 4S.

I find that the new phone has less drain than the old phone while running apps. The old phone would lose 2 percent charge overnight while the new one loses 4.

Since I'm a pretty heavy user, the new scheme works better for me.
 
D.T. said:
Yeah, my wife's iPhone 4, our iPad (original) and at least one 4S owned by a friend who has been carefully monitoring his battery life after reading these reports, haven't had any issues. In fact, I'd swear the iPad battery life has gotten much better on iOS 5.

At any rate, it's definitely something specific and repeatable causing the issue, that we [all] don't do. FWIW, our two devices are both iCloud sync'ing too.

The nice upside to how Apple controls the hardware/OS, without any carrier meddling, means all devices should get resolved at the same time. I waited for _months_ on a couple of other devices because of the carrier flavored OS...
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My iPad 1 battery is great. But my wife's iPod touch gen 4 drains fast... Went down what looks like 1/4 way in 1 day with no use... Not sure why. Cause it just sat on a desk.
 
Bluetooth?!

If you are leaving on things such as Bluetooth and Wifi when you are not useing them then there's something wrong anyway. Turn them off when you're not using them! I hate to say this but DUH!
 
Hawkeye411 said:
Oh my god my battery is at 20% instead of 25% at the end of the day! What am I going to do!

Really .... It's a non issue for me. I have never ran out of battery power on my iPhone 4 or 4s. I plug it in every night and life is good.

Nothing to see here. Move along, move along, move along.
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Not to single you out in particular, but it's not particularly useful if a bunch of people post to say they don't have a problem with their battery. So what? I don't either, but some people do.
 
strange that so many people are having this problem or is it just a vocal few?

Either way iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S at home and neither have any battery issue so is this isolated to just how iOS 5 was install or maybe to issues with push and Facebook sucking all the battery life. :confused:
 
steve-p said:
Not to single you out in particular, but it's not particularly useful if a bunch of people post to say they don't have a problem with their battery. So what? I don't either, but some people do.
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But how do you know they do? What do we have a lie detector built into macrumors.

I see a minority voicing issues again and again with issues that most don't seem to have. I am not saying they don't have a problem, but who really knows how they are using their phones and are they using it all the time in ways that drain power faster.

Reminds me of religion and politics, the vocal minority tend to blow things out of proportion and cause problems that are not real.
 
hofer said:
The headline is misleading.The problem is not just with iPhone 4S, it is with devices running IOS 5. I had the issue with my iPhone 4 until I rebuilt my contact file.
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How did you rebuild your contact file?
 
ImAlwaysRight said:
Strange. I have just about everything turned on, auto timezone, bluetooth, wifi, find my iPhone, iCloud syncing, etc, and don't have a battery life issue. Today was my first light day with the phone and now at 6pm it is showing 83% battery life remaining. Most days I use it a lot more that it is below 20% when I plug it in. I am around wifi pretty much all day, so perhaps the bug has something to do with using cell network data.
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Yeah, we don't have any wifi here at the office. It is a very secure facility.

I only have blutooth and the timezone based on GPS turned off. I lose cellular service in the elevator in our office building and when I'm going through the underground stations in the downtown core on the way to and from work. It is probably using more power when it cannot get a signal.
 
mcdj said:
Which of course means it's not a problem for ANYONE. Thanks for setting us all straight.
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So you want the ones that confirm your bias but not the ones that show no real issues at all. Oh the naked monkey and his fatalistic thinking we sure love to talk bad about those on top no matter who they be.

:rolleyes:

Same problem with macbook air wifi issues. So vocal by so few.
 
kiljoy616 said:
But how do you know they do? What do we have a lie detector built into macrumors.
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The alternative scenario is that Apple just confirmed a problem which doesn't even exist, which would hardly be great PR considering it will be all over the tech news sites.
 
f00f said:
Really? How did you install it? Xcode? iTunes 10.5? iTunes 10.5.1?

There's a couple of threads over at Apple's developer forums about this. It's definitely not an issue isolated to my phone. :D
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iTunes 10.5.1, I did the option+update method. Worked just fine :)
 
at least on my 4s ...

I did a full restore as recommended, but the phone was still losting 5 to 10 percent charge per hour sitting on my desk; turned location stuff off, etc.

Cell signal at my house is lousy at best: "no signal" to 2 bars, max and it fades in and out.

But when I'm out and about, without changing ANYTHING else, my phone will go for several hours if I'm not calling, etc., but still getting email chirps, etc. and lose less than 1% per hour.

My suspicion is that at least one problem is that when the 4S is having trouble getting cell signal, it boosts is power usage to try to grab some. I do have better luck with cell reception at my home with the 4S compared to my old 3S or my wife's old 4. The same may be true for location information: it wants to use cell tower locations, known wifi locations, and GPS. Since I'm inside, GPS is also likely to be iffy at best.

My 2¢

Eddie O
 
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Oh, in a few weeks? How many weeks? Still waiting for iTunes Match, btw.
 
This is why I buy Apple products. If there is a problem, they put forth a good effort to fix it.

Samsung... not so much..
 
Any feedback from anyone yet?? I really hope this update works and it's just not a few 'fixes' that have been posted on websites with turn bluetooth off, turn X off, turn everything off malarky!
 
steve-p said:
The alternative scenario is that Apple just confirmed a problem which doesn't even exist, which would hardly be great PR considering it will be all over the tech news sites.
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My battery is fine on the 4S. However I'm sure all these people aren't complaining for no reason. This may just effect a small number of users.
 
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