Improving iPhone battery life

03/11/2011

If you've recently upgraded to iOS5 (we wrote a blog about this previously at blog.appware.co.uk ) then you've probably noticed that your battery life seems to have got worse. Apparently there may be a bug that causes the GPS location tracking for the automated time-zone function to run constantly. This unnecessary use of GPS may then drain the battery much quicker than expected.

So how to fix this...

1. Go to Settings
2. Then select "Location Services"
3. Scroll right to the bottom and select "System Services"
4. Then switch off "Setting Time Zone"

This has certainly seemed to fix the issue on my iPhone 3GS which started to suffer with poorer battery life shortly after I'd upgraded to iOS5.

Hope this helps :)