"I have only used minor iMessaging and my battery has seemed to drop a
percentage every two minutes or so just in standby,” writes one
unsatisfied iPhone owner. Another iPhone owners says that “I’m lucky if I
get half a day now and the device is running very hot too.”
While the cause is at present unclear, some users are pointing
fingers at a problem with email accounts, and that deleting and
recreating the accounts solves the problem.
“The ‘mail trick’ works! I have exchange and iCloud accounts, deleted
them both, rebooted after 5 minutes, added both accounts back (with
push on both). 100% –> 94% within 4 hours,” one said.
But others claim that the fix is to wipe the handset and carry out a complete reinstall of iOS 6.1 and all the apps.
This is the latest in a long line of battery bugs that have plagued
iPhone users. Hardly an iOS update goes by where there aren’t complaints
of degraded battery life.
