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iOS 7.1 - Battery Drain (merged)
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Maybe the faster animations are letting people use their phones more, so the battery drains faster.
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I will say though that in the ~5 months I've owned my 5s, the battery life has never been very good anyway (rarely enough to survive a full day), and iOS 7.1 hasn't brought any improvements.
Maybe the faster animations are letting people use their phones more, so the battery drains faster.
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I will say though that in the ~5 months I've owned my 5s, the battery life has never been very good anyway (rarely enough to survive a full day), and iOS 7.1 hasn't brought any improvements.
You have a bigger battery than us too :-(
Despite what the fans say, iOS7 seems to be a poorly coded and bloated hog of an o/s. If iOS6 gave us longer battery time, then why does this aesthetically stripped down new version not give us at least the same? I don't understand how Apple can bring a mobile o/s to the table which drains the battery more than the preceding version. If ever they wanted to 'sell' this fresh new look to us, then it had to perform like a champ too. Frankly, despite what anyone says, it doesn't. Put the final build of iOS6 on ANY of our devices and we would ALL see significantly increased battery life, so how can some aesthetic differences transform the o/s into such a bloated hog? There aren't any real amazing new features and I actually had to turn some *old* features off, along with ALL of the new ones just to give myself a fighting chance of seeing the day through on one charge. Not good enough Apple, not by a long chalk.
Used 2 hours of iTunes Radio with wifi on all the time and the rest was wifi browsing and checking social networks. Not bad for a 4S on 7.1. 
My 5s is fine. I make sure I turn most unnecessary options off anyway..ie push notifications and regular refreshes. The battery is very good in the 5s generally. The best yet in my opinion. 7.1 had no affect on speed or battery life.
It's well documented in several articles across the blogosphere. Some of us deal with facts, instead of being excuse makers for Apple.
There's nothing wrong with my iPhone 5S. Always backed up, prior to performing the upgrade, I removed all but the OEM apps, did a clean install like I usually do. It's the optimum solution.
I'm sure given time, Apple will fix it.
I will post my shots later on this day (now I'm working) but tonight after 9hrs standby my iPhone was still at 100% with 6 minutes "ghost time" (push notifications and background activities so I think that's normal).
As I said, iOS 7.1 hasn't any bug in that section.
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In my experience is almost the same.
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It's not well documented, it's ONLY in the "blogosphere", that is crowded with people like you that have problem to admit the issue is just in their unit/software installation ....
The blogosphere is a ridiculous place were looking for "facts": there are people being kidnapped by aliens in the blogosphere
The FACTS are that my iPhone has zero battery drain issues with iOS 7.1, and since I have not a special iPhone 5S this is the prove there is nothing wrong with 7.1 in that aspect.
If your has a battery drain issue, then you have to find out what's wrong with your installation, your installed app or your battery itself.
Get over it.
I don't believe anything Yahoo posts. They are wrong most of the time and just write this to get page clicks. Now I use Bing.
iOS 7 introduced many changes from iOS 6, including a new multitasking , a new UI and a lot of things under the hood.
It's not a surprise that it is more demanding on computational power and consequently battery life.
And my iPhone battery life is just fine: it lasts in a comparable way other flagships do, and it is a very good thing considering it is only 1550 mAh.
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It's not yahoo, bing or Google .... It's the users.
Every single time Apple release an iOS update, there are people whining about a battery drain, and most of the times it's just in their unit.
The only documented loss in battery life was about iPhone 5 passing from iOS 6 to iOS 7, and Ars Technica, a very good website, investigated into it.
I'm still pretty happy with my iPhone 5's battery life, although I do notice it draining a bit more during the night.
Normally it would lose 1 or 2%, but I the indicator is always very dodgy. Sometimes when at 100%, 9 hours later it would still be at 100% after a night idle.
Normally it would lose 1 or 2%, but I the indicator is always very dodgy. Sometimes when at 100%, 9 hours later it would still be at 100% after a night idle.
Here we are: yesterday evening before sleep
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This morning after 9 hrs of sleep
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Do you see any drain ? Just six minutes of "ghost usage" , I think it is push notifications, background app refresh and similar activities.
This is after a few more hrs , a couple of voice calls and a little texting with whatsapp
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As you can see battery life for my iPhone 5s is absolutely fine, with no drains at all.
I say again, the problem is IN YOUR unit.
This morning after 9 hrs of sleep
Do you see any drain ? Just six minutes of "ghost usage" , I think it is push notifications, background app refresh and similar activities.
This is after a few more hrs , a couple of voice calls and a little texting with whatsapp
As you can see battery life for my iPhone 5s is absolutely fine, with no drains at all.
I say again, the problem is IN YOUR unit.
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I do notice that during the night I lose a bit more than I normally would:
It used to be 1 or 2%, but the indicator seems off many times. But I can live with it as I can normally last from 8 o'clock in the morning till 8 o'clock in the evening the next day.
Do you mean "button shape" ? Yep, not the most elegant solution, but is handy.
It's off by default.
Not going to post it again, but take a look at my results on this other thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18891526/
As you can see, iOS 7.1 has NONE battery drain by itself.
That is a specific problem of your unit or your software installation.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18891526/
As you can see, iOS 7.1 has NONE battery drain by itself.
That is a specific problem of your unit or your software installation.
Yes, and I have an iPhone5. Apple destroyed the battery life and after being patient for six whole months, they still haven't fixed it with 7.1
So they just choose to 'forget' about the iPhone5 now? I'm locked into my contract for another 18 months and after this complete lack of respect from Apple, I certainly won't be getting another iPhone. You can't just reduce someone's battery life by 2-3 hours with a software 'update' and then leave them to it. What kind of customer service is that??
I don't think there is something to fix. From Ars Technica analysis the battery life of iPhone 5 is quite similar to iPhone 4S .... So it's just that iOS 7 is more demanding than iOS 6 in this aspect ...
When I was an iPhone 5 user I wasn't so pleased about it, for sure.
Btw did you check your battery health status with iBackupBot ? I suspect it's not so healthy anymore .... Mine was down to 84% of original value (after a year), and I still reached 7 hrs of usage (the 5s can reach 8 hrs in the same condition).
Maybe yours is lower than 80% ....
Mate - you are not going to win this argument whatever facts you present with.... Some people have convinced themselves that the battery is draining because of 7.1 and nothing is going to change their mind....
Ever since 7.0 and the obvious, dreadful battery life on my i5, I have been especially fixated on my battery level meter whenever a new update is applied. Same usage patterns, same usage locations. It isn't in my mind when an update causes battery loss. Of course a lot of us were hoping for a significant improvement in battery life from 7.1, not a slight worsening or for it to be the same as it was in 7.0.4/6.
For some of us, battery life is one of the most important 'features' of a mobile phone.
I think you are right ...
They asked me for proof, and I posted it. To no avail ...
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You at least are saying something slightly different: you had an issue with iOS 7 and it's the same with iOS 7.1
What I'm trying to demonstrate is that iOS 7.1 isn't any worse than iOS 7 in this aspect.
I ask again: did you check your battery's health with iBackupBot ? I'm afraid you are going to find a surprise ....
I usually get a solid 8-10 hours of usage easily on my phone. iPhone 5 is probably at about 85% of its original battery capacity at this point? Maybe it isn't the updates that are killing battery but the life of the battery itself.