Battery life with skype

[vistadude]

When I got my iphone 4 about two months ago, I could run skype in the background and overnight the battery percentage would only change by 1-2%. Lately, my battery percentage goes down by 10-15% overnight if I leave skype running. I've tried restarts but it doesn't change anything.

Has anyone else seen this?

 

[cookiesnfooty]

Activity of Skype through the night can affect your battery life though.

 

[aldo82]

Have you definitely changed anything else in that time, i.e. started using push email or notifications? I probably lose 10% overnight but it increased to this level when I started using push email which I don't really mind. I haven't noticed running skype making any difference to battery life but then thats probably because I have push email and push notifications running anyway

If you don't need it on over night you could put in airplane mode maybe