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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/02/apple_admits_battery_problems/

Apple admits iPhone battery suckage, promises fix

Special help on its way to Oz, as well

By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco

Posted in Mobile, 2nd November 2011 23:39 GMT

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Apple has admitted to battery-sucking bugs in its recently released iOS 5, has promised that a fix will be forthcoming, and has seeded a beta of iOS 5.0.1 to developers.

Apple's admission comes to us via AllThingsD [1]. Before The Reg told you [2] about the battery suckage and a few suggested fixes, we asked Apple for confirmation and/or comment, which they chose not to provide. They don't like us. Sigh...

So thanks to the folks at ATD for sharing with us all that Apple told them: "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."

And that's all that Apple told them.

From From Cult of Mac [3], however, comes the additional news that the iOS 5.0.1 beta has been seeded to developers, and that the No. 1 item in the list of improvements and bug fixes that it provides is "Fixes bugs affecting battery life".

Our friends in Oz may also be happy to hear that No. 4 on that list is "Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation".

Oh, and that support thread [4] with more than 1,100 entries that that we mentioned in our original article [5]? As we click the Publish button on this very article, the number of entries has grown to 3,147. ®