Apple Extends iOS 5.0.1 To Some Customers, Tells Others They'll Have To Wait "A Few Weeks" For A Fix

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The iPhone 4S's mysterious battery drain issues under iOS 5 are notorious, and now Apple is seeding a beta version of iOS 5.0.1 to customers who have complained about battery life as part of its AppleSeed program.

In addition, Apple has also told its Genius Bar employees that any customers who come in reporting battery life issues should be told to wait patiently until iOS 5.0.1 is released in a "few weeks" if no hardware issues are found.

"A few weeks" sounds like an official iOS 5.0.1 release time table to me, but "suck it up and wait" is still pretty hard guidance to hear for the many people with new iPhones that bleed out their full charge every few hours.

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