Geek Posted October 28, 2011 Posted October 28, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img alt="" src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ios-5-battery-life.jpg" title="iPhone 4S Battery Life" class="aligncenter" width="620" height="302" /></p> <p>We’ve covered a handful of tips to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/16/ios-5-battery-life-fix-tips/">increase battery life in iOS 5</a> and even for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/17/battery-life-iphone-4s-draining-fix-by-calibrating/">the new iPhone 4S</a>, but nonetheless the complaints about battery drain are still piling up. The culprit for the 4S is almost always Location Services, and all you need to do is disable a few things:</p> <ul> <li>Tap on “Settings” and go to “Location Services”</li> <li>Selectively disable Location Services for services you don’t use, like Reminders, before proceeding</li> <li>Next, tap to “System Services” and switch the following to OFF:</li> <ol> <li>Compass Calibration</li> <li>Diagnostics & Usage</li> <li>Setting Time Zone</li> </ol> <li>Close out of Settings</li> </ul> <p>The Reminders feature combined with Siri is great and obviously helpful, but it seems to constantly query the location of the iPhone, presumably to try and determine where the thing is and if a reminder should be triggered. Turn it off if you’re concerned about battery life.</p> <p>The other part is ‘System Services’, which the items highlighted in the screenshot below seem to be the biggest offenders hat constantly ping location (with the exception of iAds, which took an unlucky spot). Many reports indicate that disabling just “Setting Time Zones” alone will save considerable battery life.</p> <p><span id="more-23069"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/save-iphone-4s-battery-life.jpg" alt="Save iPhone 4S battery life" title="save-iphone-4s-battery-life" width="500" height="513" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23070" /></p> <p>Is the sometimes dodgy iPhone 4S battery life a result of bug in iOS 5? Will it be resolved with an iOS 5.0.1 update? Who knows, but while the editor of TechCrunch is <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/27/apple-iphone-4s-battery-life-suck-less/">ranting</a> in a public letter to Apple, try this out, it works for now. </p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TcekHSzg3KE9HY3v7iDdz7PWcas/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TcekHSzg3KE9HY3v7iDdz7PWcas/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TcekHSzg3KE9HY3v7iDdz7PWcas/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TcekHSzg3KE9HY3v7iDdz7PWcas/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=4Q9xnpfAc3Q:k2Pf6oypqKc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=4Q9xnpfAc3Q:k2Pf6oypqKc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=4Q9xnpfAc3Q:k2Pf6oypqKc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=4Q9xnpfAc3Q:k2Pf6oypqKc:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=4Q9xnpfAc3Q:k2Pf6oypqKc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=4Q9xnpfAc3Q:k2Pf6oypqKc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=4Q9xnpfAc3Q:k2Pf6oypqKc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/4Q9xnpfAc3Q" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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