Would some apps that haven't been updated yet for iOS 7 cause the battery to drain at an excessive rate?
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iOS 7 GM battery life horrible!
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Same kinds of threads with every OS update. Much ado about nothing pretty much 99.9% of the time.
I've taken a 25% hit on average. I DFU'd a clean ispw tonight, recharged from scratch and its no better.
Suppose the solution is to get the 5S right?
iOS 7 isn't worth the loss of juice, that's for sure.
I disabled all of that parallex crap expecting an improvement, didn't notice one.
The extra slow animations can't help neither.
Disable background updates and some unnecessary location services, if you haven't already. Other than that, give it a few days and see how it goes over those days in the overall sense.
Yeah, done that unfortunately. Keep thinking there is some magical thing that I have missed. No such luck.
Wouldn't surprise me if it turns out to be Facebook app polling everyone's phones to hell, there were reports of that even on iOS 6.
It may be the parallax. I have my own wallpaper on my iPhone 5. Also have automatic updates off. I'm dropping about 10% every 30 minutes with mild use, which is about the same pre-iOS 7.
3 hours in and I am at 90%. 1 hr 42 minutes usage. Seems okay to me. I set up as new.
batteries just suck period.
Why does Apple not dump some of that cash into a tech breakthrough in batteries?
Why does Apple not dump some of that cash into a tech breakthrough in batteries?
Sucks for y'all! I'm getting decent battery life. Not worse than beta 6, either. I went through 35% in 4 hours with tons of apps running and using the data a lot, mostly for texting/messaging and Facebook. I just cleared out the apps in the multitasking tray, although it's been claimed that doesn't have an affect on battery life, at least not like many people say. Seems the same to me. Maybe even a little better than my beta 6 one.
For real! I sent a suggestion that they use graphene batteries. I hope they use them. They rock! Super small and last a long time. It would be amazing if they could make some breakthroughs with that. And apparently it's harder than diamonds, which would be an awesome screen. It can be used for countless other things, like filtering water, which is interesting too since nothing else can pass through it, but as for the iPhone, it would be great for battery and screens!
I don't mean to be rude when I say it's been covered over and over that battery life is specific to you. Your apps, your cellular coverage, your wifi coverage, your settings... Everything. I had an app spawn a rouge process and watched my battery drop 1% every 2 minutes. In the betas a lot of folks were reporting an app trying to authenticate to something over and over (by pulling up an xcode console) that kept the CPU pegged, the phone was warm, and the battery died.
With that said, I'm getting as good or better battery life than on iOS 6. In the screenshot below I had Bluetooth on for almost two hours which I very rarely do (paired to the car stereo) so 73% is lower than it normally would be.
Reset your phone (sleep and home buttons) and typically the battery drain stops until the same process starts again (if it does at all). Again, not a rude statement when I say if you believe iOS 7 has battery life issues, restore as a new phone and don't install any apps. The expectation is you will no longer have issues with battery life. The trick is to then figure out which app or activity causes the issue. For example, at the office we have a secure wifi (certificate) and people tried to join it, couldn't, and then walked away. iOS 6 continued to try and join that network over and over in the background draining the battery.
With that said, I'm getting as good or better battery life than on iOS 6. In the screenshot below I had Bluetooth on for almost two hours which I very rarely do (paired to the car stereo) so 73% is lower than it normally would be.
Reset your phone (sleep and home buttons) and typically the battery drain stops until the same process starts again (if it does at all). Again, not a rude statement when I say if you believe iOS 7 has battery life issues, restore as a new phone and don't install any apps. The expectation is you will no longer have issues with battery life. The trick is to then figure out which app or activity causes the issue. For example, at the office we have a secure wifi (certificate) and people tried to join it, couldn't, and then walked away. iOS 6 continued to try and join that network over and over in the background draining the battery.
You know what, I have done just that.
Installed as totally new. Usually over WIFI I get literally 10% per 1 hour or there abouts. Not at that level iOS 7, not even close really.
Either iOS 6 was just duping us all and reporting wrong or the battery life has worsened.
Gone as far as to disable all of the system location services and nothing seems to make a slight bit of difference.
I noticed a drain with the betas with Facebook installed so I've removed it until it's updated with iOS 7 support. It does seem to be better. There could be a lot of apps with sillier issues so I'm only installing critical apps at the moment. I'm also closing apps more often as we'll, especially those which use location services.
