iOS 7.1 - Battery Drain (merged)

[nickdylan]

My battery hasn't gotten any worse or better on my iPhone 5 and iPad 4... I still carry around an external battery to get through the day with my phone, and still only need to recharge my iPad a couple times a week.

 

[SomeGuyDude]

Isnt that the complaint with every new update since 2008. According to that logic we should be down to 15 min battery life.

Most are just trolls.

LOL exactly. It's been true here and in Android. Every single OS update across the boards seems to result in worse battery life, yet somehow they're not dead as soon as they come off the charger.

 

[Vanilla35]

Location Services are ON for all my apps that use it (I currently have 317 apps on my iPhone).

I don't use Photo Stream so it is OFF.

For iCloud, I have Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Safari, Passbook and "Find My iPhone" all set to ON. The rest are OFF.

Jeez man, that's a lot of apps. I can see why you have the 64GB now. Ok, Well I think location services might have been the culprit of my battery loss, so if you want try turning that off and leaving everything else the same.

 

[darkfiber]

Jeez man, that's a lot of apps. I can see why you have the 64GB now. Ok, Well I think location services might have been the culprit of my battery loss, so if you want try turning that off and leaving everything else the same.

Actually I need the space mostly for Music. I have about 29GB worth of music on my iPhone, about 12GB for apps (many of which I could delete probably), about 3.3GB for "Other". I have about 9GB of free space now which a reserve for photos, video or audio recordings I make.

 

[sumsingwong]

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. iPhone 5s running iOS 7.1 updated OTA with WiFi, BT and location services enabled. Unplugged around 7:15am today.

 

[dannyyankou]

I can't vote because I literally upgraded from the 4s to the 5s the day 7.1 was released, so I can't make a judgement compared 7.0.6. But I will say that I'm happy with the 5s's battery life.

 

[NP Hard]

The update hasn't seemed to affect my iPhone 5 battery life in any negative way. In fact it may even be slightly better, or at least no worse. I was happy with the performance prior to 7.1, and I'm still happy now.

 

[iamMacPerson]

Mines better. Before on 7.0.x, I would take the phone off the charger around 11AM, stream YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu for a total of 3-6 hours. Stream iTunes Radio for 5-8 hours, Vine for 30 minutes to an hour. Play games; Flappy Birds, Angry Birds, etc. I would need to charge my phone by around midnight, then plug it into the charger at 2AM to go to sleep.

Now under 7.1, same everything, I'm still around 30% when I go to bed, no longer need to charge around midnight.

 

[LordQ]

I did a full restore, set up as new iPhone and no restore from backup. Battery life is awesome!! Never had better battery life on my 4S.

 

[Traxan]

Is there a way to roll it back to 7.0.x?

 

[R.Stoychev]

My battery life is the same like it was on 7.0.x I can go through the day without charging the phone.

 

[Max(IT)]

My battery life is the same like it was on 7.0.x I can go through the day without charging the phone.

Mine too.
All this complainers seem not to understand that it isn't iOS 7.1 the problem of their battery drain.
iOS 7.1 is just a fantastic update. It is something we should have had since the release of iOS 7: stable, solid.
They probably had a problem during installation or during the restore of their apps. Or their battery simply became defective (unfortunately that could happens).

 

[Max(IT)]

So the ARS Technica bench tests for iOS7 were a load of rubbish? They clearly show a shortening of the battery life since iOS6 and in the case of the iPhone 5, a significant shortening. This has been experienced by every iPhone 5 user that I know.
The ARS Technica bench tests also clearly show a slight reduction in battery life between iOS 7.0.6 and 7.1 and although nothing dramatic, MOST users were hoping for a mammoth *improvement* in battery life.

For sure, we always see posts bemoaning poor battery life after every iOS update and yes, they are almost always down to a poor installation or corruption which a clean install and setting the phone up as 'new' will cure. This will be the case for people with the worst problems in this latest update too. However, it is not the case for everyone. iOS7 absolutely IS a much bigger drain than iOS6 and this is totally unacceptable, especially for the stripped down and basic looking thing we ended up with!

Ars technica showed a dramatic battery life loss ONLY in iPhone 5 in the update from iOS 6 to iOS 7 ...
For all other devices the difference is negligible.

 

[Newtons Apple]

Not sure if my battery life has improved but it is not worst for sure. I am very happy with the battery life of both my 5S and Air.

I think people need to relax and see how it goes for a while. Seems like every update and people go nuts for a while.

 

[Max(IT)]

At first I thought the dismal battery life after updating my 5S to 7.1 was a one time thing.

So I charged it fully and by noon it had drained to 15%. What a shocking experience. I used to easily go all day, but now I'm getting exactly half the run time as before 7.1.

What the heck is Apple doing?

They are so careless, they must have known about this but shipped it anyway. Knowing they have plenty of excuse makers within the customer base to defend the problem no matter how bad, they are really abusing the faith their worshipers show them.

Wonder how long before they fix this, or will they blame the users? Time will tell.

It's nearly impossible to trust Apple anymore, a sad fact indeed.

There is nothing to fix because the problem is IN YOUR unit, not in iOS 7.1 itself.

 

[Ashin]

Tested my drain overnight again, this time with it worn down a little rather than at 100%.

6% in 9 hours~, and also 14 minutes of phantom usage.

Can't really explain the phantom usage, but getting rid of the mstreamd daemon loop helped a bit at least.

I think this battery drain is pretty similar to on 7.0.6

 

[Glideslope]

Notice quite a bit now after one week.

 

[Hawkeye411]

i think the battery drain is in peoples heads. its fine.

My battery is draining much faster. It's definitely not in my head. It has always lasted me all day and, since the update, it's dying mid afternoon to early evening. I reset all the settings yesterday. I will see today if that fixed it or not. <cue the haters!>

 

[zone23]

My battery is draining much faster. It's definitely not in my head. It has always lasted me all day and, since the update, it's dying mid afternoon to early evening. I reset all the settings yesterday. I will see today if that fixed it or not. <cue the haters!>

I'm with this guy ITS NOT IN MY HEAD. I've had the iPhone 5s since launch I know how long the battery should last.

 

[scottytwo]

Reset Settings, Delete Exchange Accounts

Exchange does not fall back to wifi. It maintains persistent cellular connection a la APNS, but over 443; even when wifi is established.

Advise turn push off for Exchange / delete exchange credentials from mail.app, use OWA/ Safari.

 

[Max(IT)]

My battery is draining much faster. It's definitely not in my head. It has always lasted me all day and, since the update, it's dying mid afternoon to early evening. I reset all the settings yesterday. I will see today if that fixed it or not. <cue the haters!>

I'm sure it's not in your head, but surely it isn't in iOS 7.1 ....

 

[Max(IT)]

Tested my drain overnight again, this time with it worn down a little rather than at 100%.

6% in 9 hours~, and also 14 minutes of phantom usage.

Can't really explain the phantom usage, but getting rid of the mstreamd daemon loop helped a bit at least.

I think this battery drain is pretty similar to on 7.0.6

This is the demonstration that mstreamd is not the cause of your drain.
6% in 9 hrs is not normal, and I think is related to those 14 mins of phantom usage.
This night I had 2% drop in 9 hrs, and mstreamd is active on my iPhone 5S.

 

[dannyyankou]

According to some tests, 7.1 decreases battery life by only about 15 minutes on average.

http://m.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=39104

 

[Ashin]

This is the demonstration that mstreamd is not the cause of your drain.
6% in 9 hrs is not normal, and I think is related to those 14 mins of phantom usage.
This night I had 2% drop in 9 hrs, and mstreamd is active on my iPhone 5S.

Before it drained far more than that overnight.

Stop defending Apple, do you even know what you're talking about? One moment you claim you don't have mstreamd active at all, the next minute you do, I doubt you even know what it is or how to check it.

Post in point - https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=18886941#post18886941

You claim "I don't have that process on my device"

You're just another Apple apologist.

Put your money with your mouth is and post some before and after screenshots when you go to bed at night, like I have done... rather than just claim your battery life is great, probably just looking at the usage stats buffered up with huge phantom usage.

 

[Max(IT)]

Before it drained far more than that overnight.

Stop defending Apple, do you even know what you're talking about? One moment you claim you don't have mstreamd active at all, the next minute you do, I doubt you even know what it is or how to check it.

Post in point - https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=18886941#post18886941

You claim "I don't have that process on my device"

You're just another Apple apologist.

No, I just check it on my iPhone. While I don't have the process on my iPad Air (and I was referring to it yesterday), I have it on my iPhone 5s and I monitored the overnight beaviour: no abnormal battery drain and the process is in the list.
So it's not mstreamd the reason of your drain, since in the same amount of time (8hrs and 54min for me) I only lost 2%.