Apple confirms, and promises to fix, iOS 5 battery drain big

Yesterday, Apple confirmed that a bug in iOS 5 is draining iPhone battery life on a select number of devices.

"A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices," Apple said in a statement provided to AllThingsD. "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."

An Apple spokeswoman confirmed with us that a fix was in the works.

Apple has released iOS 5.0.1 to developers, which includes six updates:

• 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
• introduces a new way for developers to specify files that should remain on device, even in low storage situations

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