Apple confirms iOS 5 bugs causing battery drain, promises a fix “in a couple of weeks”

Anecdotal reports has been pouring in since iOS 5 landed that battery life had suddenly dropped off on some people’s iPhones. a whole 15-percent of you who responded to our poll reported laid low with the difficulty. Now Apple has officially confirmed that several bugs are negatively affecting battery life. In an announcement given to All Things D the Cupertino company acknowledged the issue and said it’s going to “release a software update to deal with those [bugs] in several weeks.” In recent days the complaints in both the Apple forums and our own tips box have reached a deafening volume but, sadly, Apple isn’t offering any temporary work arounds or advice for those constantly attached to a charger. So there you go folks — Apple is operating on it. You are the patient type, right?

Update: Well, iOS 5.0.1 Beta, such as the aforementioned bug fixes, just landed for devs. So Apple is not only engaged on it, they’ve fixed it… theoretically. Lets hope this test run is slightly shorter than expected.

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