Last week, we reported that the The Guardian had received word from a customer that Apple had contacted him regarding poor battery life. He was asked to install a monitoring program on his phone. Using the program, Apple engineers hoped to be able to use the diagnostics to determine what was causing shorter battery life for some users. A senior engineer at Apple contacted the person who wrote a post online, and indicated that the company was contacting users to resolve the problem.
Today, Apple has confirmed that they had found issues in iOS 5 that are causing some iPhone owners to experience poor battery life with their iPhone running its latest software. The Wall Street Journal‘s Ina Fried published a statement from Apple, which said:
A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices. We have found a few bugs that are affecting battery life and we will release a software update to address those in a few weeks.”
In addition, Apple has released beta iOS 5.0.1 build 9a402 for developers to begin testing the new update on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Apple says that the new build “contains improvements and other bug fixes including:
- Fixes bugs affecting battery life
- Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad
- Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud
- Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation
- Contains security improvements
- iOS 5.0.1 beta introduces a new way for developers to specify files that should remain on device, even in low storage situations.”
