I succumbed to upgrading to iOS 8 on my IPhone 4s and my battery life immediately went into the toilet. I turned off every open app, every notification, everything, but couldn’t get more than a couple hours of life. And making a call would immediately kill it. So I bought a new 6, which was probably their plan all along.
“I succumbed to upgrading to iOS 8 on my IPhone 4s and my battery life immediately went into the toilet. I turned off every open app, every notification, everything, but couldn’t get more than a couple hours of life. And making a call would immediately kill it. So I bought a new 6, which was probably their plan all along.’
Hate to provide multiple inputs to this post, but I have a a 4s and it’s fine. Battery life is superb.
(In no way to I claim the newer IOS issues are good. IMHO, they are indeed crap...for presentation, ease of use, and all the things Apple used to do well. Apple had better shape up, lest they replace Microsoft as the GM of software.)
I have the “old” iPhone 4s and “old” iPad 2. Both were great pre-iOS 8 and unstable until iOS 8.1.2. Still buggy but at least now usable.
I succumbed to upgrading to iOS 8 on my IPhone 4s and my battery life immediately went into the toilet. I turned off every open app, every notification, everything, but couldn’t get more than a couple hours of life. And making a call would immediately kill it. So I bought a new 6, which was probably their plan all along.”
Same thing happened to me. My 4S would not hold a charge. I do not like the form factor of the 6, so Apple lost me to a Droid mini which is a smaller size like the 4s.
I believe that Jobs resisted the biggy phones and when he was gone they injected their own ideas about size into the product. I have an iPad mini so I do not want some gigantico tablet-like phone to carry around.
My top Dentist is still using his 4s and had similar problems. . . but iOS 8.1 and then 8.1.1 and 8.1.2 solved the vast majority of them on his iPhone. He is quite happy now.
Some people with the 4s had no problems at all. I think it may have had to do with parts from different vendors installed in various versions of the 4s. The iPhone 4s was the most sold iPhone in history and made in various assembly plants in China and in Brazil under various contracts. Over the time it was made, and because of the quantities, the suppliers for component chips varied over time. This may have made a difference on how particular iPhone 4ses responded to the upgrades.
I updated my 4s. The latest update was the one that did the trick— it ran like a top. I gave it to my son (who’s on a budget) and bought a 6. My son says the 4s works great.
Did you try the cold reboot with the buttons? That solved my battery problem.
I’m not defending anything Apple in relation to your post... but the iPhone 4s has known battery issues - that for the last year and a half has seen lots of finger-pointing: Is it software (primarily iOS) or is it a hardware issue (what I believe).
My wife has a 4S that has a wacky battery - started with iOS 7, got marginally better for a short time when updated to iOS8 (which runs just fine on it), but it is back to the quick-drain, then once to 30%, might shut off at any time... Or will drop to 4% but immediately jump to 40% upon plugging it up. IT is really wacky.