iOS 7 GM battery life horrible!

[sunking101]

This isn't the problem, I don't use mobile data for iCloud only wifi, and I only use iCloud for contacts and bookmarks, not backup.
I think the problem is the mobile and wifi radios, when browsing safari via wifi my battery drains 20% per hour, thus getting 5 hours usage, on beta 6 I was getting 9 hours usage doing the same browsing, there is something wrong with iOS 7 and apple need to sort it fast.

Adam.

I agree that there must be a fault within iOS7 but why do so many people report brilliant battery life? Some even say they're experiencing better battery performance than they did on iOS6 :-/

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This is from this evening's use and it has been 100% forum browsing over WiFi.
The thing is though, my battery reading isn't linear. The second 50% drains much faster than the first.

 

[Poly]

Anyone feels an improvement with 7.0.2?

 

[sunking101]

Anyone feels an improvement with 7.0.2?

I thought I did but after rebooting the next day the drain was back as bad as ever.

 

[sk1wbw]

Here's my battery life with 7.0.2 on an iPhone 4.

 

[Beefburga]

Never really studied my battery, just recharged if and when I needed to.

Here's a screen shot of my battery life,

Wifi on
BT off
Auto Brightness on
2 Mail accounts on fetch every 30mins

Mostly use the phone for...... Well, making and receiving calls.

Using iMessage

Browsing the internet

Twitter and Facebook

Playing turn based games like Words & Disc drivin.

Not sure if I should be getting more out of my battery or not! but to be honest, I'm happy with what I get.

 

[sunking101]

Never really studied my battery, just recharged if and when I needed to.

Here's a screen shot of my battery life,

Wifi on
BT off
Auto Brightness on
2 Mail accounts on fetch every 30mins

Mostly use the phone for...... Well, making and receiving calls.

Using iMessage

Browsing the internet

Twitter and Facebook

Playing turn based games like Words & Disc drivin.

Not sure if I should be getting more out of my battery or not! but to be honest, I'm happy with what I get.

That looks awesome to me. Can I ask you, did you accept the update when the 'update carrier settings' box came onto your screen after installing iOS7?
I haven't updated my carrier settings because my phone sends SMS, receives MMS and makes phonecalls so I obviously have working carrier settings. The reason I keep refusing to update them is because it will remove the personal hotspot/tethering feature and I'm pretty sure that's all it will do. However, a small part of me wonders if this is the reason I'm experiencing such dreadful battery life on my i5. I have done four clean installs and switched off every feature in the o/s yet am still getting 6 hours' usage if I'm lucky.

 

[Beefburga]

Yep, updated the Carrier when prompted.

Looking at some of the battery life some are having id of turned my iPhone off by using the concrete (if you know what I mean)