iPhone 4S battery life issues? Read on…
Some iPhone 4S's are nailing their batteries too quickly. Has anyone asked Siri how to fix it?
iPhone 4S users are contacting Apple's support forums complaining of poor battery life. Early adopters of Apple's new voice controlled iPhone and the latest version of its software iOS 5, have been saving enough battery life in order to get online and complain about losing up to 15% of battery life an hour.
So far there are no fixes or solutions from Apple themselves. Luckily this hasn't stopped others trying to work out what is causing it though. One blogger has made the most of the extra Location Services options that Apple have added in iOS 5 to do some detective work himself. Oliver Haslam of iDownloadBlog.com has found a bug which means that automatic setting of your time zone by your location is constantly accessing GPS. If anything is going to where out your battery quickly it's either a bright screen, lots of 3G use or activating GPS.
Other people have found that corrupted contacts syncing with iCloud have led to services crashing or running the CPU too hot, which will also kill battery life.
Here at UsedMac we have been using iOS 5 since its early beta days on an original iPad but battery life seems to have been unaffected adversely up until the last few weeks. It has been a bit more battery hungry but we've presumed that is down to iCloud calling home more. We've tried switching off the sending of Diagnostics and Time Zone by Location to see if it helps.
You can head here for tips on troubleshooting your power hungry iOS 5 device.
