Comments on: iPhone 4S Battery Life Sucks? Try Disabling Location Services

By: Find Out How Long Your iPhone Battery is Really Lasting

Find Out How Long Your iPhone Battery is Really Lasting — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:27:34 +0000

[...] out if an app is using Location Services, and consider disabling it, pinging location constantly can be a leading cause of battery [...]

By: Amos Jones

Amos Jones — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:27:12 +0000

Just turn it on and off when needed. You are not constantly using those functions 24/7

By: Find What App is Using Location Services & Draining Battery Life in iOS

Find What App is Using Location Services & Draining Battery Life in iOS — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:47:41 +0000

[...] paid attention to this before, it matters because when Location Services are being used it can drain your battery much faster than usual, this is because the app determining your location is constantly using [...]

By: Figure Out Which Direction You Are Facing With iPhone & Maps

Figure Out Which Direction You Are Facing With iPhone & Maps — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:09:32 +0000

[...] feature will not work if location services is disabled, a feature some people turn off because it can reduce the life of a battery charge on some iOS [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:11:23 +0000

That’s not true. The maps app will still show traffic even after turning that setting off in services. I’m dying to find out what, exactly, that system service does!

— Mike

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:01:59 +0000

I’m sorry, HALF A TERABYTE of Mobile Broadband?
If you believe that location services can use that much, you are kind of paranoid.

I don’t know about other countries, but I have yet to see a plan that offers over 100gb of MOBILE DATA.

You must mean megabytes, you just must.

By: Yes, iPhone Changes Automatically for Daylight Savings Time

Yes, iPhone Changes Automatically for Daylight Savings Time — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:03:44 +0000

[...] Disabled a Time Zone setting for the iPhone 4S battery issue [...]

By: John

John — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:41:29 +0000

I have a 500GB per month data allowance. Since installing iOS5 I have used 80% of this in 2 weeks. After reading this article, I am convinced that these location services are gobbling up 3G data usage as well as battery power – so thanks for the article. These have now been turned off (& my fingers crossed!!!)

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:25:37 +0000

Rob, we published a post 11 days prior to your link with these tips. Disabling location Reminders isn’t mentioned in your link, and it offers a significant improvement.

http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/16/ios-5-battery-life-fix-tips/

We always source our work, but thanks for looking out. Cheers.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:43:59 +0000

No credit for the source for this nugget of information.

Shame on you guys.

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/10/27/tip-cure-iphone-4s-battery/

By: Damian

Damian — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:08:35 +0000

this tip is great, but I also found a huge culprit in my battery life on my iPhone 4 with IOS5….. the foursquare app that I use constantly has a new feature called “radar”. This “radar” notifies you of “hot” places around you. The problem with this feature is that it constantly searches for “hot places”. even with location services turned off, this “radar” feature uses the location services constantly. Once I figured that out, my battery life now lasts a full 12 hours, and my battery doesn’t die as fast even with the use of youtube and tons of texting.
If foursquare is an app you use, you should turn the radar function off to make sure your battery lasts as long as it should.
I hope this helped a lot of you.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:39:58 +0000

This sucks. You have to disable all the phones unique features (which is why you bought it in the first place) just to get decent battery life! I have had dozens of iPhones, completely switched my business to Macs, got screwed reading and looking forward to iPhone 5 for 7 months, spend hundreds out of shear loyalty to the brand, and I get Siri who rarely gets anything right, has an annoying voice, and then I get this junk that I can sit and watch the battery go down. Unless I make it the functional equivalent of a free Nokia. Apple (the most valuable company on the planet with enough cash to buy everyone a new phone) had better treat me like a valued customer REALLY fast. I am soooo ticked off. Chargers freaking everywhere, constantly plugged in, used to love the culture of Apple until I caught on that their stuff is a genius marketing con which is a spiraling money pit that is constantly requiring updates, accessories that suck, headphones that suck, screwing developers, an OS that gradually gets slower and slower over time, requiring software to clean it, slaves to cell companies that pray you break your phone, constantly spinning pinwheels. Ram memory they COMPLETELY screw you on at double the cost which if you dont buy voids the warranty which essentially covers nothing that happens in the real world. Mark my words, Apple will start LOSING market share if they do not start taking care of customers. And the “occupiers” think banks are screwing people. Insane. It is all about share price people, I think I am just now starting to wake up. In fact, in Quicken, there is an entire column of expenses just to keep up with Apple. Why is WOWING your customer with something that blows everything away such a bad business approach? Because you cant make any money on the fix. Why offer a solution when you can keep bleeding people with the problem. It NEVER stops. ANother example, I have 4 Apple TV’s. They rarely work. Constant updates, and are essentially nothing more than slick conduits to….yep….send Apple more money.

By: james

james — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:46:41 +0000

so what use of iphone 4s, if we must disable everything in it ,to have better battrey life, just sell it and buy iphone 2g

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:19:43 +0000

The iPhone 4s just won’t go to sleep. There’s a nap for that.

By: Ano

Ano — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:28:12 +0000

Finally, someone knows what he is talking about.