Battery life

That's not normal. Did you restore from a backup?

 

OP, I have done quite a bit of experimentation on battery life which might be useful to you.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1595716

 

Turn off background app refresh.

Yesterday I went from 100% to 31% in two hours. Today 100% to 81% in two hours with it off.

 

Had exactly the same experience... Charged multiple times yesterday 20% losses within an hour.

Turned off background app refresh and automatic downloads for Apps and its only lost 12% in 7 hours!

 

Installed iOS 7 yesterday...For a Beta 1 on a totally new OS this thing is fantastic! My battery life doesn't seem to be effected at all so far. Basically all the good parts of Android, done up prettier, and put into iOS...Love it!

 

Of course, because no phones are released running beta software.

 

I can attest that resetting all settings will fix battery life and keep your data. My phone would hardly last a few hours under iOS 7 beta.

I will know more though out the day, but this seems to be the fix

 

Is that feature only in iOS 7?

 

Background app refresh? Yes, it's a new feature of multitasking.

 

Really? Where? Everyone uses their phone different so YMMV.

Give it a couple betas or until the GM to see improvements, although I'm personally hoping the next beta offers some sort of improvement.

 

I found that if you disable the "Show All" under Setting==>iTunes&App Stores it saves some battery- Enabled it automatically puts the purchased music and video in the apps for automatic download. If disabled and you want to re-download you need to go to the purchased tab in iTunes.

 

I installed iOS 7 last night then made a phone call right after everything updated. I was on the phone for 3 hours and 16 minutes. The phone was at 100% when I started and 8% when I hung up.

 

I turned off both of those features on Tuesday night. Wednesday, my phone still had horrid battery life. It would drain like 1% every 10 mins or so, while the phone was completely inactive on my desk. Then if I'd use it for a couple minutes, it would get incredibly hot.

On iOS 6, my phone would last me from 7 am to midnight with average usage. With iOS 7, my phone was down to 1% when I left work at 5:30, and I barely even used it all day.

So I'm not sure that's the actual fix.

 

I swear, I've been looking all over how to do so and can't locate it. Please provide guidance!

 

I think it was in Settings --> General

 

Go to Settings->General->background app refresh

 

Ah, there it is!
Thanks much. (I only had stocks and weather on, but switched them off anyway.)

Let's see if that'll make a difference.

 

I just had another long call after posting. 1 hour 16 minutes. Battery went from 83% to 36%.

 

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.

 

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.