Apple Confirms Battery Life Issues With iOS 5, Software Update Coming
Apple issued a statement to The Loop's Jim Dalrymple about customer complaints of poor battery life with the new iPhone 4S and iOS 5:
A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices. We have found a few bugs that are affecting battery life and we will release a software update to address those in a few weeks.”
There have been a litany of complaints about iPhone 4S and iOS 5 battery life ever since their release last month. A number of solutions have been proposed by the community for this problem, including turning off Time Zone detection, Bluetooth and others.Apple has already seeded developers with a 5.0.1 beta that is said to address the issue.
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How can it only be "a small number of customers" when all the 4S' run identical software? :confused:
Serious question.
Are you suggesting that every bug in all software affects 100% of customers?
Of course not. Despite being same software, certain behavior depends on certain conditions.
arn
A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices. We have found a few bugs that are affecting battery life and we will release a software update to address those in a few weeks."
That line gets me every time.
...I think the bug was called "windows mobile 6.5" or something... hmm..
Clearly, this is a software issue. I had it since Beta 1. Beta 6 fixed it, Beta 7 was bad once again.
Oh my god my battery is at 20% instead of 25% at the end of the day! What am I going to do!
Really .... It's a non issue for me. I have never ran out of battery power on my iPhone 4 or 4s. I plug it in every night and life is good.
Nothing to see here. Move along, move along, move along.
Wow, really incredible.
It's all about you, nobody else matters.
"Move along, move along, move along."
Why would you not update? Seriously, I don't get it.
People seem to think just because their phone doesn't have any problems, means an update shouldn't be released at all. As long as their phone is OK, they don't care what happens.
Samsung... not so much..
about time for 4s sucks bad
Why do you even have a MacRumors account? All you do is troll. Gtfo and go to bed already.
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