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hey everyone I'm Sharon Vaknin for cnet.com here to help improve the terrible battery life that came with iOS 5 especially on the iPhone 4s the issue is so bad that Apple is investigating the problem and might release a fix but until then I have a few solutions you can try right now grab your phone and head to settings to get started one tip many people swear by is resetting your network settings first go to general reset and select reset network settings enter a passcode if you have one and your phone will restart this won't erase any data but you'll have to re-enter your Wi-Fi passwords now go to location services and turn off any location services you don't need these services drain a ton of battery since they force your phone to constantly find your location the biggest offender in this list is probably reminders because if you set up a location-based reminder your iPhone will always monitor your location as it waits to activate your reminder so you can either disable it here or hold off on using location-based reminders until this battery issue is fixed once you turn off these services head down to system services and disable location-based I ads and setting time zone which you can turn on again when you travel across time zones alright we're done with location services and the next step is to turn off diagnostic reports your phone may be sending to Apple periodically so now head to general about diagnostics and usage and select don't send this next setting is Siri related and only applies to the iPhone 4s go to general Siri and turn off race to speak this is a handy feature but it consistently drains your battery by monitoring your iPhones light sensor to activate Siri it's not fair that we have to disable useful features for better battery life but until Apple releases a fix this could be the best solution if you did all of the above and you're still seeing crappy battery life some users in the Apple community forums say you should condition your battery so let your battery die which shouldn't take long then completely recharged it by using an AC adapter in general you should do this at least once a month with these settings in place you should see your battery life improve but this doesn't mean Apple is off the hook for this issue if you have any battery saving tips let me know on Twitter or my facebook page and I'll repost them on how to see Netcom for CNET I'm Sharon Vaknin