Poor battery life and WiFi connectivity on iPhone 5s

I have bought a new iPhone 5s 16GB running iOS 8.1.2 3 days ago. The device that I have got has a poor battery life and WiFi connectivity. I have tried lots of methods given on the internet like turned off the auto-brightness, reset the phone to default settings.
Then contacted the Apple Care for battery issue. They asked for the diagnostics to check the problem. They said its happening because of the crash of inbuilt app Springboard asked me to try "Set up as new iPhone". Even after doing all these, I am still getting battery not more than 4 hours.
This is not expected from Apple. Such an awful experience on my first iPhone buying.

Puneet_Agg wrote:
I have bought a new iPhone 5s 16GB running iOS 8.1.2 3 days ago. The device that I have got has a poor battery life and WiFi connectivity. I have tried lots of methods given on the internet like turned off the auto-brightness, reset the phone to default settings.
Then contacted the Apple Care for battery issue. They asked for the diagnostics to check the problem. They said its happening because of the crash of inbuilt app Springboard asked me to try "Set up as new iPhone". Even after doing all these, I am still getting battery not more than 4 hours.
This is not expected from Apple. Such an awful experience on my first iPhone buying.
Where exactly did you buy this new 5S?

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Yes I have.
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Currently a lot of people are complaning about battery life, mostly it is because they don't know what to do to conserve it, or they are too lazy to change settings all the time based on current usage and service requirements. Adding these functions would give people the ability to bettery manage the battery life on their iphones and would help to reduce the amount of complaints.
Thanks very much!

Helmet2279 wrote:
1. Have the GPS radio shut off after a period of inactivity from the accelerometer, if the iPhone isn't moving there is no point in wasting battery life keeping the GPS radio on, have it remember the last position before shutting off to help speed up location reporting once the iPhone starts moving again.
Actually it is already that way. GPS radio is usually off, unless needed by applications. The problem is that many applications need it (including free apps that include geo-location based advertising) and that's when GPS works some extra. There's also another factor in making GPS drain battery: it is not the GPS radio itself, but communicating with apple's Map server while using it even if you're not looking at any maps. The thing is that location services rely on some information that can only be obtained through communicating with a geo-location server. Which is another drain factor.
2. Have an options screen that allows users access to all the iPhone services that consume battery, this would make it easy to understand what services use battery and will make it easy to disable those that are not currently required, order the list with the highest battery consumer at the top and the lowest at the bottom, this way people will understand that disabling those services at the top of the list will get them higher increases in battery life. Currently to toggle the battery consuming services requires visiting several menu screens, some several layers deep into the settings pages, people don't bother doing this and thus complanin about battery life.
Unfortunately it is not that straightforward at all. It depends too much on the type of network you're using and on many other factors. It is impossible to have a reasonably reliable ranking like the one you're suggesting.
What could be useful is to have a single switch that controls all services that rely on persistent connections (push, application notifications, some other things) but it is not that trivial at all.
3. Have the option to schedule times for various battery consuming services to be available. I don't have wifi at work, i would save battery life if wifi was automatically disabled between 9am to 5pm,
Having WiFi on while having no WiFi coverage consumes, err, well, almost nothing. Especially in standby, when the phone keeps WiFi radios off at any rate. WiFi is the least expensive bi-directional radio and iPhone manages it very well.
Currently a lot of people are complaning about battery life, mostly it is because they don't know what to do to conserve it, or they are too lazy to change settings all the time based on current usage and service requirements. Adding these functions would give people the ability to bettery manage the battery life on their iphones and would help to reduce the amount of complaints.
A lot of people are complaining (including myself) because *it does not work right*. Not because I can't switch things off when I don't need them.

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