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iOS 7 GM battery life horrible!

Battery life on my 4S has been worse than iOS 6. All the usual Bluetooth, parallax, system location services, background refresh etc. have been turned off. But still it would drain about 1-2% every hour on standby and 1% every 5-10 minutes during use (mostly using social networking apps, news apps, messaging, web browsing). I suspect Facebook messenger or gmail may be contributing to this since battery seems to drain faster when using these apps and because I have push notifications on for them.

However, battery on iPad 3 has been great. Maybe even better than iOS 6
 
I have not noticed any differences between iOS 6 and iOS 7 battery life on my iPhone 5 with normal use.
 
Does the wireless carrier that the iPhone is made for have any effect?

The Ars Technica battery test was done with a Verizon iPhone 5. I wonder if the bug affects the GSM carriers too.
 
Retired Cat said:
Does the wireless carrier that the iPhone is made for have any effect?

The Ars Technica battery test was done with a Verizon iPhone 5. I wonder if the bug affects the GSM carriers too.
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Maybe the spot they took the test had different amounts of signal. It uses more battery to search for stronger signals. That's what I think.

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mwhals said:
I have not noticed any differences between iOS 6 and iOS 7 battery life on my iPhone 5 with normal use.
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Same here. Feel a little bad for those who post her about bad battery life.
 
Third night in a row with a dead battery in the evening. This never happened before. Turning off wifi until there's a fix after reading this thread.
 
I turned off wifi for now too and I'll see if that helps. Still losing a percent of battery per 3-5 minutes of web browsing though. Seems a little high.
 
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I turned off wifi for now too and I'll see if that helps. Still losing a percent of battery per 3-5 minutes of web browsing though. Seems a little high.
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3G browsing (it's all we have in the UK) always drained my battery MUCH quicker than using WiFi.
I had a play around this evening and switching automatic app store updates on and then back off again, along with switching background app refresh on and then back off again for all listed apps (the individual toggles) has worked wonders for my battery drain! I have gained an extra 2.5 hours of WiFi runtime tonight, with my iPhone 5 running iOS7 currently only approx 30 mins off what I used to achieve with iOS 6.1.4
I also ran my battery right down until the phone switched itself off, before doing a full charge to 100% after I made these adjustments.
 
Lately, I've only been seeing about 5 hours of battery where I used to be able to see 7-10 hours of use and almost 24 hours of standby. It's horrible. And I have all battery saving things implemented. In fact, I was at 17% maybe 20 minutes ago and glanced at it and out of nowhere I was at 11%. I think the battery gauge skipped over everything in between. This is pathetic.
 

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My 5S seems okay now. Was draining like mad without me touching it but now its fine. I did nothing to change this. Still at 100%

* I was asleep for those hours
 

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My i5 used to stay on 100% for a good half an hour and then plummeted like a stone. It went through the first 20% 'ok' (but quicker than iOS 6) but then the battery meter ticked faster and faster. The last 30% dropped really quickly.

It has improved recently after two clean installs and many adjustments of the settings. It is more acceptable now but my runtime is still a good hour less than I was getting on iOS 6. I believe this is the best I will manage unless Apple roll out a patch.

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recklesslife85 said:
My 5S seems okay now. Was draining like mad without me touching it but now its fine. I did nothing to change this. Still at 100%
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Why do you feel the need to have the latest and most expensive smartphone when you clearly don't even use it? Your 5S is brand new and still you don't use it!
 
sunking101 said:
My i5 used to stay on 100% for a good half an hour and then plummeted like a stone. It went through the first 20% 'ok' (but quicker than iOS 6) but then the battery meter ticked faster and faster. The last 30% dropped really quickly.

It has improved recently after two clean installs and many adjustments of the settings. It is more acceptable now but my runtime is still a good hour less than I was getting on iOS 6. I believe this is the best I will manage unless Apple roll out a patch.

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Why do you feel the need to have the latest and most expensive smartphone when you clearly don't even use it? Your 5S is brand new and still you don't use it!
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Because I was sleeping for those hours and it's my money I earn. Why do you feel the need to comment on how people spend their money?

Update of usage so far today. All good for me will hit the 5/6 hour mark.
 

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Battery only lasted until 7:00pm yesterday, only turned off background app refresh and it seems to be fine now (it's 6:30pm here).

iPhone 4S
 

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I tried IOS7 for a day and a half - and found on my Iphone - noticeable battery life decrease

flashed back to IOS6 - and all good again - not bad for a 3 year old phone

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SanjeevRana said:
Interestingly I think the iPhone 5C is NOT an exact copy of iPhone 5 inside ...

This video talks of the Gm on 5C and battery drops from 67 at start to 64 at end .. The level of interaction she is doing would cost me at least 7-10 % on my phone ....

Also, the smoothness is more than what I have on my 5 ... And yes it's a Fresh install before people start shouting :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsBG6UUvVWM
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Apple stated that the battery is 5% larger capacity.
 
I just turned off the %, and my battery is fine now. It lasts me all day, and now I am not constantly obsessing about how much of a % I have left. It's very liberating.
 
Mine seems to be doing ok now ;-)

Should get about 7 hours usage out of it, iPhone 5 running Public Release, settings tweaked.

Adam.
 

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RDG said:
Battery only lasted until 7:00pm yesterday, only turned off background app refresh and it seems to be fine now (it's 6:30pm here).

iPhone 4S
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Oddly enough, 30 minutes after typing this I recorded a small 2 minute video. My battery life was 38% and one minute into the video I got the 10% battery remaining warning (never got the 20% warning). Stopped the video and noticed my battery percentage was 5%. In other words, my battery life went from 38% to 5% in 2 minutes using the camera app.
 
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