My iPhone 4S began losing battery life at a crazy speed.
My IPhone 4s had a great battery life until I upgraded this 6.1.2 download. It's gone from holding a charge all day to less than 4 hours! What is going on? Can some help?
Go ahead and try completely restoring the phone. When it come time to setting up the phone, do NOT restore from a previous back up. Set it up as a new phone and sync all of your contacts/data back to it. Restoring from a backup will only put the same issue back on. Worst case scenario, make a genius bar reservation. If the phone is under warranty, it can be swapped out. Good luck to you!
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This is my first iPhone I am having problems with my battery life. I recently updated to the new operating system for the iPhone 4S. I am losing battery life at a quick rate is there anything that I can do.
You can search the forum and read the many helpful posts with suggestions on how to improve your battery life.
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Using iPhone 4s and upgrading to iOS 6.1...my phone is losing battery life. Is there a fix? Does anyone else have this problem???
NOLAgal71 wrote:
...my phone is losing battery life. Is there a fix?
Set Up as New Device
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Iphone 4S losing battery life VERY quickly
Just recently my Iphone 4S has been losing battery life VERY quickly. I have heard that it may have something to do with a IOS update. I also have heard from several people that they have suddenly been experiencing the same thing. Does anyone have a fix to problem? If so, how?
Many people are having similar issues, especially since the release of iOS6. I went to the Apple store and the first and only thing the fellow did was disable location serivces for the apps that did not really need it, and that doubled my battery life.
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iphone 4s is heating up and losing battery life fast from when i updated ios 7.0.2, iphone 4s is heating up and losing battery life fast from when i updated ios 7.0.2
Try this article > iOS 7 Battery Life Draining Too Fast? It’s Easy to Fix
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i have an iphone that is using battery life much more quickly than in the past, a full charge is going to zero in a half a day or so, with out much use.
an icon is also appearing next to the charge percentage in the top right, and the icon is a circle around a lock
can anyone tell me what the problem is, and what the icon means?The Icon meas your display orientation is locked to vertical so it wont change when you turn the phone sideways.
First thing you should check with the battery life is multitasking, which also happens to be where the orientation lock can be turned off. check out http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4211 and go from there -
Do you gotta plug up your iPod 5 gen while it's updatting to ios8? Because I updated mine and it won't stay charged plus it's losing battery life very fast.
You have not provided enough info to really help. How fast is fast?
What shows it will not stay charged?
Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
- Wiat for an iOS udate since may be bug in iOS 8 -
Does overcharging iphone/ipad/ipod decrease battery life ?
does overcharging iphone/ipad/ipod decrease battery life ?
If you haven't, I'd check out this kb for starters.....
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4060 -
After upgrading to iOS 8 the iPhone 5c start freezing, battery life is too short, etc.
After Upgrade to iOS 8 the iPhone 5c start freezing, battery life is too short, and to open an app it as to restart the phone.
How to downgrade to iOS 7.
Thanks,
<Re-Titled By Host>Try to reset the phone by holding the sleep and home button for about 10sec, until the Apple logo comes back again. You will not lose any data by resetting, but it can cure some glitches.
If this does not help, setting it up as new device without using any backup would be the next step:
Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings - Apple Support
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I've updated my iPhone 4S with the latest iOS 6 but battery life had never improved as I expected. A friend of my had recently replace his iPhone 3GS with iPhone 5 and both us compared our simillar daily usage of browsing, emails with attachments (work related), messaging (via iMessage, WhatsAppa, WeChat) games, facebook, tweet, uploading, etc, it seems that iPhone 5 last longer by 35-40% compared to my iPhone 4S. By. The time he hits 60-55% on his iPhone 5, my iPhone 4S Is less than 15%... My Questions to the community or any Apple Consultant, is it preferrable to replace my beloved iPhone 4S with iPhone 5 in order to accommodate the performances of iOS 6 and the "coming soon" iOS 7? Is it a practise to replace every iPhone when there's a new iOS update? Please advise.
It largely depends on how much money you are prepared to spend.
Your question is much like asking "I have last year's model car. This year, the car has some new features. Should I trade in last year's model and get this year's?" Well, maybe. It's your call.
Each newer generation introduces some new features and capabilities. -
I have never been so disappointed with an Apple Product such as the Iphone 4s. When I signed up with a new 2 year contract, I received my iphone 4s. I charged it fully the night before, then it didn't even last the day (with minimal usage). I turned off Location Services, Wi Fi, and Bluetooth, this helped a bit. But what is the point of turning these services off, when I NEED THEM!!! The wonderful new Siri doesn't work properly without Location Services turned on.
So I upgraded to the iOS 5.0.1. version - that did absolutely nothing to assist the battery life.
Apple, what are you going to do about it? My new Apple phone is a LEMON!
If I had of known how bad the battery life is on the iphone 4s, I would have got a Samsung Galaxy 2!!!!!It doesn't really matter whether I am talking to Apple or not (and I'm sure they monitor these comments), I want everyone to know how bad this new iphone 4s is, and all of it's problems.
Apple have already launched an upgrade to the software - it obviously did not help, as many around the world would concur.
As far as being patient and waiting for another "update in the works" is concerned, it is just not satisfactory. This is not a cheap phone, and those who are experiencing these problems, should not have to be paying a substantial amount of money, for a very smart phone, that obviously, has some serious problems. -
I've just upgraded to the Iphone (4) update and now battery life of the poor is very poor (3 hours). Is there anything I can do to fix this?
there is wifi encryption password and appleID password and then your imap or pop3 password
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IPhone 4S . Short battery life daily.
My Iphone 4S was purchased about 1.5 years ago. Until recently the battery life wasn't bad, but over the past couple of months, the battery drains markedly over the course of a day. I do not have apps refreshing in the background, and I close apps when not using them. I keep GPS off when not using apps that need it, and keep the backlight pretty low. I'm doing all I can to keep the battery from draining, but it's getting pretty bad.
It could be a hardware (battery) problem or software related (e.g. a rogue app) like i had with my 2 year old iPhone 4S.
Read the blog post to determine if it is a hardware or software issue (usage time is equal to stand-by time).
In my case a rogue app which i had on my iPhone 4S already since iOS7.04 caused the drain after an update to IOS7.0.6. and still with iOS7.1 I removed the app and now my iPhone is fine again with iOS7.1 and now iOS7.1.1. ever since.
Question 1) Did you read the blog post i mentioned?
Question 2) Does your iPhone have the exact same Usage time as Stand-by time or not (see Settings > General > Use > ..)?
If this usage time is not exactly the same as the stand-by time then it could be that it simply is a hardware issue (battery itself) and not software (iOS) related.
Question 3) What kind of settings do you have on your iPhone e.g. the below things could cause a huge battery drain ever since the recent iOS release can still run in the background (if you have 'refresh in background' or GPS turned on for some apps).
We have two iPhone 4S phones and we have an average battery time of 1-1,5 day (when using it for e.g. a few calls, texts, mail, news apps and a short video for e.g. total of 3-4 hours) or even 2 days (if i don't use my phone much almost 90% stand-by time) and with WIFI connecting for about 90-95% of the day and ofcourse phone network but no 3G.
Aside from that we have the following settings which could save a lot of battery:
- bluetooth off
- screen brightness set to approximately 30%
- fetch e-mail accounts once an hour (Settings > E-mail, calendar .. > deselect 'Push' and set it to either Fetch e.g. once an hour)
- do not refresh any apps in the background (Settings > Refresh apps on background)
- apps that use GPS are limited (Settings > Privacy > Location tracking)
- only have a few apps (5-10) that are allowed to send push notifications
- only have a limited amount of apps to send messages to 'Notification center' or e.g badgets/strips/sounds/apps symbol or on your 'Access screen' (See Settings > Message center > check settings per app)
I think that 3G uses more battery then WIFI so if you have WIFI access then use that instead of 3G. -
IPhone 4S - really bad battery life or faulty?
Hi! I have an iPhone 4S (16GB, black).
Ever since I have had it, I've had to charge it everyday.
To try to improve the battery life, I've done everything I know of like turning off WiFi/Bluetooth, turning down the brightness, turning off push mail (so only when i launch the Mail app, it connects to my email), I've only switched on what I use on iCloud like Calendar sync, Find my iPhone; i've turned off push notifications for apps I don't need it for, set auto-lock to 1minute, and have switched off location services for apps I don't need it for, and I made sure there is no EQ setting on the iPod/music app.
I also force-quit big apps I'm not using - I don't have a lot of apps compared to some people I know - only 19.
But with all of that, my battery usage only goes up to about 3 hours, 30 minutes. I once owned an iPhone 4 (which I sold because I wanted to switch to Android... then realised I felt lost without an iPhone so bought an iPhone 4 ha), but the battery usage on that used to last like 5 hours! My old iPhone 3G was about the same too.
But why is it so bad? I know it's got Siri, but I don't use that a lot.
I've also noticed on some occassions, the phone switches off when it still has 10% battery life left! When I try turning it back on at 10%, it comes up with the no battery icon - I did manage to turn it back on by pressing the on/off button and home button, but it likes turning off then! Yesterday, it took about 2 minutes to go from 10% to 5%, then was stuck on 2% for about 30 minutes.
When I go cycling, I use a GPS app (Cyclemeter). The iPhone 4 battery went down by about 10% when I used it (about 1 hr cycle ride), and the 4S goes down by like 25% !! - i don't leave the screen on either - it's just in my pocket using the GPS.
Could there be a fault with my iPhone/battery? Or is it just that the 4S is like this?I have the same issue. I have a iPhone 4S and the batter life was great under 5.0. Then 5.0.1 came out and its been horrible. Sometimes I can get upwards of almost 5 hours of usage, but lately I can't break even 4 hours of usage over a period of 24 hours.
Apple's software dept was supposed to issue a fix for this but they never did. I'm pretty much done with this horrible company. They are beginning to think they are God's gift to the digital community and a dose of humble pie would be nice for them. And it will catch up if they keep ignoring us. iOS5 has been the most broken and fragmented OS apple has EVER put out. Thank you for that Apple. -
Iphone 5 VERY short battery life since 6.0.2 update.. Is there anything to change that? :/
Very short battery life on my iPhone 5 since 6.0.2 update. I got up this morning and it was only half an hour in use and it already lost 10% of battery life! Please fix that apple!
Apple is still signing for 6.0.1 so you can RESTORE BACK to 6.0.1. Just download the 6.0.1 IPSW for your device and then press the shift key while pressing restore (on windows) which will open a window. Select the downloaded IPSW and you'll be back on 6.0.1. And since Apple is still signing 6.0.1 THIS IS NOT A HACK
OR AN UNAUTHORIZED downgrade. So it DOES NOT void your warranty because Apple is allowing you to downgrade because they've allowed the 6.0.1 window to remain open. I did it for a friend's iPhone and it all worked out fine.
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