My Iphone 4s won't keep its charge?

Last night I had my phone plugged in all night long, then this morning it only held its charge for about 30 minutes. It only works if it is plugged in and never goes higher than 1% power level. I've double clicked the little round button twice and canceled all the open applications and it's been plugged in for a couple hours now.

I really don't want to have to go in to the Apple store, does anyone have any suggestions?

You can try a hard reset

settings > general > reset > erase all content and settings

may be software related, which is why hard reset would be needed.

WARNING! Hard reset erases everything on the phone! BACK IT UP!

if that doesn't work, you will need to replace it cause it's a hardware issue.

take it back to your phone company and replace it or call in your insurance claim. If you can't do that, you need another phone.

Make sure you are updated to the latest OS. Other then that, yeah thats really weird. It sounds like your battery went bad but that would be rare.

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