IOS 5.0.1 Update Makes iPhone 4S Battery Even Worse

After our recent post regarding the apple iOS 5.0.1 update on this site we found an article claiming the battery lengthening fix has actually caused some issues with the new iPhone 4s:

 

 

Apple’s iOS 5.0.1 update makes iPhone 4S battery even worse?

iOS 5.0.1 update makes iPhone 4S battery even worse

Has Apple’s iOS 5.0.1 update worsened the iPhone 4S battery bug? That’s the claim of some users online, but is there any truth to the assertions?

Apple’s newly released iOS 5.0.1 update – the one that was meant to fix the battery draining bugs present in iOS 5 – has reportedly made matters worse, according to online user forums.

Apple’s iOS 5 was quite an update and introduced a load of new functionality to Apple’s range of iDevices, such as new notifications, Newsstand, iCloud and integrated Twitter functionality.

As always, though, there were a few bugs inside the new platform. Chief among these was the battery-draining bug, which affected tens of thousands of iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 users.

Apple admitted iOS 5 had a battery-draining bug inside it, as well as a massive security hole, but maintained that both of these issues, along with all the other known bugs, would be taken care of via an update (the iOS 5.0.1 update).

Well, iOS 5.0.1 landed on Thursday but it doesn’t seem to have fixed everybody’s battery issues.

Here’s a collection of complaints from Apple’s user forums:

‘After upgrading to 5.0.1 my iPhone is draining the battery even faster! Anyone else seeing this problem?’

‘I can support this too.. After installing 5.01 i charged it up fully before going to bed and after 7 hrs just sitting there lost 79%, and have lost further 5% while logging in and typing this. Going to try a full back up and restore this eve.’

‘Before the 5.0.1 update I actually didn’t have any battery problems on my iPhone 4S. But thanks to this update I now seem to have one, too The phone was charging over night and I was already wondering that it displayed 98 per cent when I unplugged it this morning, normally it would display 100 per cent. And now after 20min of use (reading some news on the bus) and 1h 26min of standby, it is already down to 92 per cent.’

‘Yeah same here.. since it finish charging this morning at 4am or so when I turn the laptop off.. I’m at 80 percent now at 9am.. the scary part is that I have Siri and location services turned off, brightness setting at only 1/4..’

Our iPhone 4S was fully charged at 8:00am this morning. Now it’s at 81 per cent – that’s a 19 per cent reduction in three hours. All we’ve done is listen to some music, send a few emails and texts and browse a few web pages.

Could we be seeing iOS 5.0.2 soon? It’s beginning to look very likely that we will, especially if these complaints keep persisting.

via iPhone-Genius.comiOS 5.0.1 update makes iPhone 4S battery even worse – iPhone-Genius.com.

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