The title of the post doesn’t paint a pretty picture does it? As always, the truth must be told which is what has led to this post. An increasing number of users are complaining of experiencing a dramatic drop in the battery life of their iPhone 4S.

One of the affected folks contacted the Guardian and shared this shocking fact:

My battery life was extremely poor – 10% drop in standby every hour. I noticed that the usage figure was roughly half that of standby, even when the phone was not being used, so I assumed something was crashing or running in the background. I switched off all the new features including Siri and location services, but it was still really poor. I also tried setting up a clean phone with no apps but it is still really poor.

I then got a call from a senior [Apple] engineer who said he had read my post and was ‘reaching out’ to users for data and admitted this was an issue (and that they aren’t close to finding a fix!) and asked lots of questions about my usage and then asked if he could install the file below and that he would call back the day after to retrieve the info. I extracted the file from my Mac after a sync and emailed it to him. He was incredibly helpful and apologetic in the typical Apple way!

One positive thing to come from the above excerpt is that Apple has acknowledged this issue and has began to contact the affected iPhone 4S users. When will they figure and roll out a fix for this serious looking battery drainage issue? Currently, we don’t have an answer for this very important question but we are hopeful that it will come very soon.

We are on the lookout for possible temporary fixes to the said problem and will share the fix with you once we get our hand on one. To make sure you get the interim solution as soon as it becomes available, we advise you to keep an eye on our Twitter, Facebook and RSS Feed.