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iPhone Battery life shocking. Phone shuts down at 10%

JS82712 said:
Not this again...I did 3 clean installs, nothing helped. It's an iOS 6 problem
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Not for everyone. iOS 6 on my 4S and no difference in battery life on a one year old phone. If that did not work and doing a full charge does not help, you will have to have Apple check it out. Could actually be the battery itself.
 
This battery is horrible on iPod touch 4 iOS 6, I got at least 7-8 hours at this battery percentage in iOS 5.1.1 ImageUploadedByTapatalk1348247713.855636.jpg
 
Mine seems to be about the same. Maybe it could be better if I didn’t play around with all the new features right off the bat, but now that I have everything set the way I want it, maybe could be better, time will tell.

This is with some playing around and updating apps and using my hotspot off and on for my iPad. I have two exchange accounts running, find my iPhone running and I am syncing my notes, playing words with friends and lots of texting, and of course making phone calls.
 

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If you have a lot of Photos, the phone has to reindex them after the upgrade. this may take a while and use up a lot of battery power.
 
Finally died. Had a couple phone calls, thought I would take a look to see what the battery life was at, seemed that little 1% was hanging on for a bit.

Charging it now, we will see what its like over the weekend.
 

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iPphone 4S here, and battery life since upgrade is dreadful. I used to charge once a day with fairly heavy use, now have to charge twice a day.
 
My iPhone 4 is definitely draining faster but some of that may be placebo in that I was playing with it a lot today. After a few days the novelty will wear off but my gut feel is that battery usage is much higher and will stay that way unless there's something new I can switch off (Facebook integration, maybe?).
 
And my iPad is also draining quicker. It's an iPad 3 so no excuses about it not being the latest hardware.
 
I'm using an iPhone 4 and I've noticed that the battery has been draining while on standby. Occasionally, I'll go to unlock it and the location services icon will be in the status bar. I assume this is causing the drain, but I can't figure out which app is doing it. The only difference I can think of is the new Facebook integration.
 
Well a friend who has an iPhone 4 is also getting the drain and he's not actually connected his Facebook. Something is polling behind the scenes. It can't all be coincidence.
It could be one or 2 specific apps- but those would be fairly common apps because there's a fair few complaints coming in.
 
For the record I restored my phone and added the apps back manually. Made no difference. Battery life is shockingly bad still.
 
jolleyt said:
I'm using an iPhone 4 and I've noticed that the battery has been draining while on standby. Occasionally, I'll go to unlock it and the location services icon will be in the status bar. I assume this is causing the drain, but I can't figure out which app is doing it. The only difference I can think of is the new Facebook integration.
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If you go to Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services, it will tell you *exactly* what program is using location services.

A weather app I have does constant location polling. That had to be disabled.
 
As I me said before. My friend hasn't connected his Facebook yet and gets the drain
 
Just thought I would reply with some information I have discovered. I was away on holiday when I updated my iPhone 4S to iOS6 (over the air update so not a fresh install) and the battery life was affected immediately. I left it for a couple of days but nothing seemed to improve.

I discovered however that the system location services had all been reset and the phoned appeared to be grabbing my location every few minutes in a attempt to automatically set the time and date. Once I turned that off the battery life improved and was pretty much back to normal.

I got the iPhone 5 early on Saturday morning (back home in the UK) and found that turning the system location services off has also help the battery on the new iPhone.

Not sure if it is the same for everyone but it may be of help to some people!
 
Xenomorph said:
If you go to Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services, it will tell you *exactly* what program is using location services.

A weather app I have does constant location polling. That had to be disabled.
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I've tried to see which program is doing it when I see the icon. As soon as I open the location services settings, it goes away.
 
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