subject: Iphone 4s Owners Complain About Battery Life [print this page] The new iPhones 4S is wowing the Smartphone world but owners are now complaining loudly. The forums for iPhone 4S owners are filled with complaints that the battery life of their new iPhone 4S is worse than earlier models of the iPhone. How can this be? Wasnt the iPhone 4S supposed to be an upgrade from previous versions?
iPhone 4S batteries cant handle the new power load. The new system is so slick that owners are being lured into running all the apps, especially the ones that check your location through GPS. As any experienced Android owner will tell you, running apps that constantly poll the network drains the battery like a hungry vampire. Owners of the new iPhone 4S are discovering the battery in their new super phone is fading fast. Whats the solution?
There is no such thing as an inactive Smartphone. Unless you have your phone powered off, there are apps running in the background draining the battery. The default settings on the iPhone 4S are set to constantly poll the network and provide notifications for things like location, social sites like Facebook and Twitter, and email. For most of the apps you can easily change those settings in the new IOS 5. Some apps however have the settings within the app themselves, so you may have to root around a bit to find them. James Kendrick, ZDNet, has given a great explanation and instructions on how to change the settings. As the settings in iOS 5 makes clear: Location Services uses GPS along with crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations to determine your approximate location. Thats a lot of radio activity, and that eats a battery faster than anything. You can turn locations services off on an app-by-app basis in the iPhone settings to make sure critical apps can use them but nothing else. He also provided some great screen shots:
Disabling unnecessary app searching really helps. Another great solution is to get an iPhone 4 Power Charging Case. Its a perfect answer to extending your battery life. The case actually adds another 1500mAh of power when your battery gets low. Its slim and has a non-slip suface so you wont drop your precious new phone.
