Apple retail tells me apps in multitasking bar are draining my battery

[chrisc983]

Also if you are on 4.3 you can try disabling ping. Settings->enable restrictions->ping (off). I did this on my iPad and my gf iPhone and seems to help with the battery life.

 

[diamond.g]

I'll +1 the question and comment. If the battery is draining this quickly, either the battery is bad, or there is an app running in the background by default. In my experience, it is the location services apps that do it the most. There was a Speed Trap warning app that turned on multitasking right when 4.0 came out and was a battery hog because it left your GPS on all the time with no easy way to stop it.




It's the problem you will always have when your support staff don't actually have any technical background, and are there for the paycheck. A lot of people wind up working jobs they don't want to, especially in this economy. For the most part, they aren't any better than the scripted support staff anywhere else, on average.

I echo your comment. As my wife's phone had the same issue. Closing the apps and rebooting seemed to correct it. I was too lazy to actually track what was still open. But if your standby and usage time are the same then something is wrong.

 

[VulchR]

Yes. I twas the most pathetically painful process I have ever been through. When I went for the interview I was dragged halfway across London, to be confronted with a bunch of mongs who probably wouldnt be able to tell you the difference between the iphone 3 and the iphone 4. I was then put into a group with a particularly cretinous group leader, and ask to 'sell' a bowl of fruit. Cretinous group leader insisted the best way to do this was to borrow the 'man from del monte, he say yes' advertising strapline, and pull a horrid face and thumbs up whilst doing it, and tbh I felt like a dick, and didnt really get involved.

So lets be clear, apply to work in an apple store if you are a. A cretin, b. wear childrens jeans, c. Know nothing about the products you're selling, d. not fat (have you ever seen a fat person working in an apple store, not because thats not selling you the nike + experience of jogging with your idevice strapped to your arm like blood pressure monitor).


If you're not any of that, and really want to work with apple macs then apply to work in an authorised reseller, you'll get some credit for not being a moron and wont be expected to run down the queue on opening days whooping and hi fiving the crowd, when 2 days later you'll be lying to their faces about battery management on their new iphones.

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Im so chuffed with that rant, its going on my blog.

OK - so let me get this straight - you don't like people that much, you're not motivated enough to jump through a few hoops, you dismiss the iPhone as not being a real computer, and you're not prone to visible displays of enthusiasm...

... so they didn't hire you.

And your point is what exactly?

 

[err404]

For the record I have seen several apps in the past that simply don't suspend correctly. While suspended apps should have a minimal impact, sometimes there are simply bugs in the code.

Still it's easy to test. Close your apps, disable push notifications and turn off unused radios. Then see if you still have problems for a couple of days.

BTW - if you phone is frequently in a low or no signal area, the cell radio may consume more power.

 

[tbobmccoy]

Not sure if its been said already since this thread has a lot of neg. energy I didn't want to read through... turning off push notifications for apps can help your battery life. That might be what they were thinking at apple retail, but who knows. Apps in your multitask bar shouldn't drain your battery at all unless they are apple apps that are active, such as the iPod app.