Comments on: How’s Your iPhone Battery Life With 5.01?

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:05:04 +0000

While I have personally been lucky enough to not experience the battery issue yet on an IPhone 4 or a 4s and I did experience it once back on an IPhone 3gs back at the time of IOS 3.x some version, that brings me to my point. I do not understand why Apple does not seem to get it. The scope of the issue is not limited to IOS any specific version and is not fully even captured by usage patterns. You can google for any IOS version that has existed and find forum and internet posts and articles on the same simptoms of battery issues. They often start after updating. Sometimes obviously they come with your device right out of the box. The same thing applies. An installation was done on the device even if you didn’t do it. There is to at least some degree, and I think the majority of the problem is caused by, a problem common to installing and running IOS. I do not understand why Apple can’t debug the issue by running diagnostics on devices collected from exchanges of devices at Apple stores where they have a device right there that is obviously demonstrating the problem. It seems they are making little adjustments here and there to compensate for battery usage, but not addressing the root cause. I wish I could say this is the only buggy issue Apple has in IOS, but it is far from that. I continue to use their devices because I am visually impaired and use IOS for its accessibility through the use of the voiceover screen reader so that I can use the device without sight. That access is not matched on any other platform and no other platform currently even comes close. Otherwise I am absolutely sick and tired of Apple’s quality control issues and I think the only thing that will even possibly cause them to address quality control issues is enough bad press that impacts sales.

By: Doug Wylie

Doug Wylie — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:25:00 +0000

It seems like mine is worse.Turned it on and within 1 hour already down to 80%.

By: Namratha

Namratha — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:14:05 +0000

Issues pertaining to battery life still exists on my iPhone 4

By: roy

roy — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:16:39 +0000

my iPhone 4 updated 5.01, let iphone on for 7 hours, 100% power gone! much worse than before.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:08:18 +0000

I didn’t really have battery issues before. I downloaded 5.01 yesterday and have seen a big increase in standby time. I don’t think battery life has gotten better when actually using the phone. But most of the day, my phone is not being used so it is benefiting me greatly.

By: Russell

Russell — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:07:01 +0000

I have a 4S and am noticing a bit worse battery life… I used it minimally this morning and within 2 hours of being unplugged I was at 70%…