Battery life

[photogpab]

Strange, my battery *seems* to be the same if not better.

I'm at 75% right now with 2 hours 26 min of usage and 5 hours 5 min of standby.

It is strange the different results people seem to be getting. I turned everything that was mentioned above off and I've been stuck at 100% for a while now.

Definitely not dropping as fast as it had been. Hope this means that turning off automatic downloads, etc fixed the battery issue.

 

[Luuthian]

I've had no battery problems either, but I have virtually everything that would run in the background off. The only option I have on is auto updates and it's definitely not affecting my battery.

Must be a fairly specific bug that people are finding and getting stuck with. Phone reboot doesn't help?

 

[Cayennr]

Strange, my battery *seems* to be the same if not better.

I'm at 75% right now with 2 hours 26 min of usage and 5 hours 5 min of standby.

Indeed, I too get pretty good usage and standby time considering this is the first beta.

 

[megalaser]

It's CPU usage that's the problem, I have a CPU monitor installed and after a while some process is sending the CPU into overdrive, when I do a hard reset it starts off at around 15%, then when the CPU goes crazy it's 70% or higher making the phone warm and the battery drain.

 

[Will2145]

I'm at 3 hours and 35 mins usage with 73% left and 11 hour standby but the thing is I didn't do anything why is my usage going up

 

[Mdifilm]

Today is the first day after installing ios7 yesterday afternoon on my 4s, I have disabled background refresh, and got out of the house at 7am, and right now 1:23pm still got 48% left, only talked once for 2 mins, checked facebook, checked in on foursquare.

 

[megalaser]

The battery life sucks and it's a beta, also smoking is bad for you and so is McDonalds for every meal.

 

[CristobalHuet]

Enable "Reduce Motion" under Accessibility helped for me. No more cool wallpaper effect, but battery has been saved until they iron out the performance issues.

 

[DDustiNN]

It's CPU usage that's the problem, I have a CPU monitor installed and after a while some process is sending the CPU into overdrive, when I do a hard reset it starts off at around 15%, then when the CPU goes crazy it's 70% or higher making the phone warm and the battery drain.

That's exactly what I've noticed. It's fine for a while, but then at some point my phone suddenly becomes very warm and the battery just starts dropping fast. After doing a hard reset (hold power + Home until restart), it is good for a while.

Anyway, do you know what service that is? That may help narrow it down. I'd like to report it as a bug on the dev site.

I had horrible battery life the past 2 days. Today it started to get bad, then at lunch time I completely turned off Location Services. Now I've been sitting at 75% for a good hour or so, so that may have been the culprit. I'll have to see how it goes for the rest of the day.

And as for the "OMG IT'S BECAUSE IT'S A BETA!" people... we know
It's just nice to narrow down the cause in hope of disabling something, as a workaround, to continue using and testing iOS 7.

 

[lotzosushi]

Fresh install of iOS 7 on an iPhone 5 here... horrible battery life. In an hour I went from 99% to 60% from just listening to music and occasional texting. No other apps running on multitask. :/

 

[DDustiNN]

Another thought I had was that maybe the Background App Refresh is bugged, since it's still so new. I was thinking that maybe, even though I have switched it off, it is still activating, and then gets stuck in a loop of constantly refreshing some particular app(s), causing the battery life to quickly deplete.

But if the previous poster says he was only using one single app, maybe that thought is inaccurate.

 

[filmfanatic24]

Mine is now starting to plummet, but I had turned a few location services on.

 

[PNutts]

There's nothing you can do guys. It's a problem within the new code. Don't like it then go back to ios6 have to wait for beta 2 and hope it's fixed.

Not true and don't post misinformation.

 

[SuperRob]

As in previous betas, sometimes syncing of things like calendars and contacts gets stuck. I had terrible battery life when I first installed, and my phone was uncomfortably warm. When I got a few texts that had only numbers and not names, I checked and I was missing all of my personal contacts on my secondary iCloud account. I removed, added it back, and not only did the contacts finally sync, but the overheating stopped and my battery life went down to what I would consider normal.

 

[beaniemyman]

did a little research, couldn't find anything useful. i think you should wait for Beta 2 and hope that it solves your issue.

 

[photogpab]

Well I spoke too soon...

Usage: 1 hour 4 min
Battery: 65%

I have everything previously mentioned turned off, did a few hard restarts, reset all settings...

I don't know. I know it's a beta (no need to repeat that a million times btw) but some folks are clearly claiming to have great battery life so I wish I knew what was wrong with mine.

 

[SuperRob]

Try removing your iCloud or Mail, Contacts, and Calendars accounts and adding them back again.

 

[photogpab]

Try removing your iCloud or Mail, Contacts, and Calendars accounts and adding them back again.

Alright just tried it

 

[dt808]

I went from 95% to 45% in 2.5 hours. I disabled reduce motion and went to General > reset > reset all settings and I have normal battery life again.

Try doing that!

 

[recklesslife85]

Not true and don't post misinformation.

Erm its a BETA, it's not optimised in the slightest so yes I'm right. Don't moan about battery life on betas. Only apple can fix it not the end user.

 

[filmfanatic24]

I went from 95% to 45% in 2.5 hours. I disabled reduce motion and went to General > reset > reset all settings and I have normal battery life again.

Try doing that!

You disabled "Reduce Motion" or you enabled it? It's disabled by default.

 

[dt808]

You disabled "Reduce Motion" or you enabled it? It's disabled by default.

If it is disabled by default, it definitely wasn't disabled by default on mine.

I have it off.

 

[SuperRob]

If it is disabled by default, it definitely wasn't disabled by default on mine.

I have it off.

It's a badly worded setting. If "Reduce Motion" is ON, then the parallax scrolling effect is OFF. If "Reduce Motion" is off (which it is by default), then the parallax scrolling effect is on.

 

[megalaser]

I thought we were discussing it not moaning and by the way . . . . is it a beta?

 

[photogpab]

Phone died at usage: 3 hours and 19 minutes