iOS 6 and battery life

[Just_Me_D]

Battery life has indeed improved for me. It wasn't bad before the update, but I have noticed a marginal improvement, thus far. Hopefully, the improvement will continue.

 

[taguluchi]

Installed OTA over existing. Battery life is as good as, or better than, what I experienced on 5.1

Me too I'm actually getting better battery life than before and I never updated to 5.1 I stayed on 5.0 befor updating to iOS 6

 

[mweb67]

I did the update early this morning and started with 99% and am still with 32% 14 hours later!! Much better!!

 

[NetworkLabs]

On my iPod touch 4G White 8G, it seems to be doing amazingly! I haven't noticed hardly any battery drain in my device. So I think mine's good.

 

[PilotPhil81]

My battery seems better after the update.

 

[dancing-bass]

Wifey updated her 4s today and says it's really slow now. She wants to downgrade. Thoughts/input/advice? I know very little about iOS, but I'd like her to stay happy with her phone. Would a full drain and charge cycle help? I think she plugged into iTunes for the update.

 

[NYC718]

Pretty happy with this.

 

[anon(4706943)]

Less Than Impressed

I didn't think it could be possible, but my battery life is worse than before! Took it off the charger at 7am and it was at 32% at noon with less than average use. I was messing around with the new iP5 I bought my wife this morning so I really haven't been on my iP4S hardly at all. I guess I need to go thru all the settings and try to maximize the battery, but this is ridiculous. Maybe it's jealous?

 

[meskin84]

I have experienced the same thing! Terrible battery since the update! It has mostly been in standby, I am going to back-up phone and completely reset entire phone and start as new phone, then start back-up. Hopefully that will make a difference.

 

[anon(2254645)]

My 4S is quicker, and the battery life is superb.

 

[meskin84]

Well, I did a complete reset from my phone, started as a new phone and restored from backup. It doesn't appear to have made any difference whatsoever. I will continue to play around with the settings and see if I can identify what is wrong with this....

 

[CrzyP]

I did a "reset all settings" and it seemed to clear up my battery life woes.

 

[ernbrdn]

FWIW I was having serious battery issues as well upon upgrading to iOS 6. After digging around a little I found that the time zone setting, and the diagnostic auto send setting were turned back on. I remembered these were huge problems with 5.0 when it was released so I went ahead and turned them back off. Also I discovered that somehow I had passbook set to use gps info, and even though there wasn't an arrow in the upper right corner when looking at location services it showed that it was constantly using GPS. (Purple arrow) I turned it back off since I don't see myself using that feature for a while, and so it seems my battery life is back to "normal".

 

[nikkisharif]

I posted previously that I didn't see much difference but I am noticing a slight difference for the better

 

[2BTs4Me]

Mine seems to be just fine!

 

[John Yester]

Works good for me.

 

[meskin84]

WELL, after trying EVERYTHING I can tell you that on my 3GS nothing is going to make iOS 6 work unless Apple releases an update addressing the issue. I have done everything that everyone has suggested and not one of those things has worked. Oh well, keep this badboy plugged in at ALL times, I guess

 

[StephenBB81]

Battery life on my 4S has dropped from 7h a day to a little over 6h a day with iOS6,
I'm not using it any more or less than I used it with iOS5,

I am blaming the battery drain on the fact it seems to spend far more time "connecting" for emails than iOS5 did, and the lighter themed dialpad in the phone section since a bulk of my usage is phone calls and I'm manually dialing many of them

 

[Highrisedrifter]

Mine is excellent compared to my Android phone.

 

[anon(2254645)]

Still can't complain:



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