I'll just live with the terrible battery life on my iPhone 5....
IMHO, each new iPhone has worse battery life than the one before. I've come to expect this. They claim the battery is better, but in real life use, this is simply not the case. I've given up trying to figure it out, I'll bring it into the apple store tomorrow, maybe they'll even swap out the phone for me, but I doubt it will make a difference. The battery is plain awful, but I'm never far away from a charger, whether it's in my car or office. I've grown used to it at this point. Nor am I going to do one of the 10,000 suggestions I keep seeing on here and other forums. Restore as new? No thanks, it's just the way I want it, I don't want to spend 6 hours loading everything again. Turn off location services and apps? What's the point of offering a feature if you can't just leave it on and use it? I have everything (well, almost everything) on. Wifi, brightness all the way up, location services, it's all on. Why? I like using them. That's why I bought the phone in the first place!
So, the bottom line is: I'll live with it. I'll live with having to charge it a few times a day, I'll live with the fact that it'll never be perfect. I will go to the genius bar just for the heck of it, there are issues with iCloud not backing up, and wifi not as strong as the 4S, and sometimes the usage and standby times are identical, so perhaps mine is defective, but I doubt it'll make much difference. Sure, 6.1, or 6.0.1 will be released soon to address these issues, as I'm convinced this is mostly a software issue, but at this point I'm done trying to figure this out.
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Hello there, EdisonGurraj.
The following Knowledge Base article should provide you with assistance in what steps to take to troubleshoot your iPhone's battery life:
iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2802
Speifically:
Battery life seems short
Click ( www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html) for tips on how to prolong iPhone's battery life.
Try turning iPhone off and then on again.
Connect iPhone to iTunes and restore iPhone.
If the screen shows a low-battery image, the battery is low on power and needs to charge for up to ten minutes before you can use it.
When charging iPhone, make sure to leave it charging until it is fully charged. You'll know the battery is fully charged when the battery icon in the upper-right corner of the screen looks like this .
Note: When charging using a computer, don't connect iPhone to a keyboard. Also, the computer must be turned on and not in sleep or standby mode. If iPhone is connected to a computer that's not turned on or is in sleep or standby mode, the iPhone battery may drain.
Cheers,
Pedro D.
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