I skipped 6.2 because I heard it had some issues with the battery life on the iPhone 5. So, I know it is relatively new so a lot of people haven't figured out all the bugs yet, but I want to know!!
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Stay with 6.1 or move on to 6.3
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I would stay on 6.1, I wish I did battery life at least for me is terrible on 6.1.2, and I am not losing my jailbreak on the off chance that 6.1.3 might fix it.
Anyone who has battery life issues should:
1) Restore as new
2) Restart the iphone the following day by holding Lock and Home together for 10 seconds
1) Restore as new
2) Restart the iphone the following day by holding Lock and Home together for 10 seconds
Questions: What does 24 hours have to do with it? Why wait till "the following day"?
restoring as new and resetting from scratch did very little for me. (i had other reasons to try this)
6.1.2 definitely has worse battery life than 6.1 ever did. (i skipped 6.1.1)
my battery life isn't horrible compared to some of the ones i have heard reported. (about 5 hours of "usage" over a day) but its definitely lower than it was previously on my iphone 4 and for 6.0* and 6.1 (7-8 hours) with similar minimalistic things running in the background (very few location services, very few notifications, manual fetch, etc.)
*6.0.1 was horrible too for some reason but at that time, i was able to restore back to 6.0 since apple was still signing it. could i have a hardware issue?...
yeah did this 3 times....still no better..it def effected some users to upgrade 6.1.2 wish i never did..
If you want/need a feature in one of the later versions, go ahead and upgrade. Most folks aren't having issues. If not and you aren't concerned about the security vulnerabilities that were fixed, then don't.
Typically it's a setting or app that chews through the battery but it can also be weak cellular / wifi signals, etc.
6.1.3 runs perfect for me on my 4S and if anything the battery's better, at least better than previous 6.x versions.
I update pretty much as soon as I can to any new ios version - always have done - and have never regretted it. I don't really understand why people get so worked up about these things, it's new software that almost always fixes problems, so go for it.
I update pretty much as soon as I can to any new ios version - always have done - and have never regretted it. I don't really understand why people get so worked up about these things, it's new software that almost always fixes problems, so go for it.
Some folks have bad battery life and blame the iOS version. Others believe they get better battery life and credit the iOS version. Others don't notice a difference. It's subjective so comparisons aren't useful until some commonality is discovered, e.g., Exchange ActiveSync on 6.1.1, Exchange Meeting bug on 6.0, etc.
i, like many others here online and people i know, have agreed that 6.1.3 has been horrible on battery life. as i write this, im halfway through my 12 hour shift and im at 59% with normal use. usually, by the time i go home after my full 12, im still between 65-75%. even noticed my ipad mini, which used to be crazy with good battery life, has suffered.
Since there's really no explanation it doesn't really seem like anything even close to an hour would be needed for these "startup tasks", let alone a whole day.
I've never had issues with battery life except when Apple admitted to having delivered a faulty update. I must be so special!
What would be those observations and reasoning? It'd be good to know if something is in fact taking somewhere in the range of a day or so to start-up/initiate.
I think I'll just stick with 6.0.1 for now. I saw in the details of 6.0.3 something about people being able to bypass your password lock. Does that apply for 6.0.1 or 6.0.2 users?
The passcode bypass issue that was addressed in 6.1.3 existed in all previous iOS (6) versions.