Battery draning faster since iOS6

[mhandl]

Haven't had any issues with battery draining fast, but I have noticed some charging issues. I'm not sure if it's the hardware or the update.

 

[AQ_OC]

I have been away from my charger more often now, and I see it too. Things that normally used next to no battery cause the battery to drop. I was at a friends place, and we watched a few movies (on his computer). I checked my Facebook in between and we took maybe 3 photos. That's it and the battery was down to 62%, even though it had been on standby for 98% of the 5 hours. :/

That is definitely not normal. Using it to just check FB and take 3 photos, the rest on standby, and you are down to 62%? Are you sure you started with a full charge?

I did the update too on my iPad 3 and I don't see this kind of thing.

 

[buerkletucson]

I dunno............I don't seem to see any battery depletion issues with ios6.

Not to say some aren't actually having this issue but....
It's human nature to scrutinize and more closely watch something when it's different........and see something you just didn't notice previously.

Just sayin'.......

 

[Mustashi]

I've had the same problem as well, but more so with my iPhone 4 than iPad. It doesn't come anywhere close to how it did prior to iOS 6. Woke up the other day at 7:30 and unplugged the iPhone at 100%. Sent 3 texts and put the iPhone down. Went back to bed ( I was sick) and 4 hours later the battery was at 23%????? What the heck? Hadn't used it at all! Is there some new settings in iOS 6 I should be looking at or changing? Brightness is under half.... Most location services turned off..... Not thrilled right now. Hope there is something I'm missing. ( iPad just went from 83% to 77% while typing this!?!? Maybe it is affecting my iPad 3 as well)

 

[tsmrg]

I just wonder how the battrey can last for days. I charge it everyday, fully charged before i leave home for school in the morning, something like 20% if not lower when i return home around 5 pm.

i have, facebook, ipad forums, crackberry forums, ibooks(was not built in), documents, adobe reader, feedlerrss, english premier league, opera and gmail. Lol, quite a lot right.

Any tips to save battrey

Sent from my iPad using iPF

 

[tsmrg]

Its ipad 3, with the new ios6

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[goofy8275]

I dunno............I don't seem to see any battery depletion issues with ios6.

Not to say some aren't actually having this issue but....
It's human nature to scrutinize and more closely watch something when it's different........and see something you just didn't notice previously.

Just sayin'.......

Me too. Thank goodness I don't have issues with my battery!

 

[sjleworthy]

No draining issues, but definitely slower to recharge

 

[The OB]

I dunno............I don't seem to see any battery depletion issues with ios6.

Not to say some aren't actually having this issue but....
It's human nature to scrutinize and more closely watch something when it's different........and see something you just didn't notice previously.

Just sayin'.......

Well put. Could not have expressed it better

Regards, Andrew

 

[f4780y]

Not suggesting nobody has a problem, but, having been around here for a whilst you might like to consider that it is quite a common phenomenon...

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-general-discussions/49553-ios-5-battery-draining.html

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-os/52386-battery-drain-performance-ios5-update.html

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-os/49867-battery-life-after-updating-ios5.html

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-os/13586-battery-ios-4-2-1-a.html

and many many more... right back to IOS 3.2.1, which was the first update for the iPad.

Personally, and from experience, I believe genuine issues related to battery after an update of IOS are caused by a panicking process caused by some flaw or bug in the update process, most likely an app, setting, or config which Apple didn't predict would be on your device and causes the new OS to "race", draining the battery.

9 times out of 10 when I have come across this before, a restore of the device in iTunes and a restore of your last backup has resolved it.

The failsafe guaranteed method to resolve it is to restore your device and set up as "new".

Good luck!

 

[Mustashi]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. There is definitely something going on. It may well be my iPhone 4 vs ios6.... but I'm sure it's not just me scrutinizing more closely and seeing something I hadn't noticed previously..... as some have suggested.

 

[bdude52]

Not suggesting nobody has a problem, but, having been around here for a whilst you might like to consider that it is quite a common phenomenon...

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-general-discussions/49553-ios-5-battery-draining.html

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-os/52386-battery-drain-performance-ios5-update.html

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-os/49867-battery-life-after-updating-ios5.html

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-os/13586-battery-ios-4-2-1-a.html

and many many more... right back to IOS 3.2.1, which was the first update for the iPad.

Personally, and from experience, I believe genuine issues related to battery after an update of IOS are caused by a panicking process caused by some flaw or bug in the update process, most likely an app, setting, or config which Apple didn't predict would be on your device and causes the new OS to "race", draining the battery.

9 times out of 10 when I have come across this before, a restore of the device in iTunes and a restore of your last backup has resolved it.

The failsafe guaranteed method to resolve it is to restore your device and set up as "new".

Good luck!

Thanks for the suggestion, but as I write this, my (windows) laptop is bordering on a hard drive failure, so it's being backed up :/ on the bright side I'm choosing between a Mac mini or a MacBook Pro (price vs performance). Sorry that probably went a bit off topic