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iOS 7 GM battery life horrible!

Battery life has been great for me. I can get through a whole day without an issue. iOS 6 was fine for me as well. I did a restore and setup new phone option. I've seen in these forums that some peeps update and restore from backups which could cause issues. I recommend the Jarvis/Iron Man 3 approach ("The clean slate protocol").
 
Try a settings reset it will fix any corrupt issues that may cause battery issues thus will not delete anything but reset to factory settings. you will have to redo all your wallpapers and notifications etc. This worked for me I found this in a apple forum back on iOS 5 .
 
I believe it's due to re-indexing/something running in background. If you can install something like activity monitor to monitor CPU usage, you may see it as bumpy up and down not resting at around 3%

Same thing happen when I first install beta 3.


After few days, it works much better
 
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This worked for me: after doing a complete restore to iOS 7 GM battery life was still crap. I then did a reset all contents and settings and voila, battery life back to normal.
 
All day usage, tons of apps used. Best my battery has ever been
 

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Anti-Lucifer said:
update:

This worked for me: after doing a complete restore to iOS 7 GM battery life was still crap. I then did a reset all contents and settings and voila, battery life back to normal.
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Did you restore your backup from iTunes/iCloud or completely started off with a 'new' phone?
 
I was having battery life problems on my iphone 5 as well. I figured it had something to do with apps using wifi in the background. I noticed that with the Facebook app installed and logged in, battery life was horrible. Uninstalling it has fixed the problem. I think It's not the OS' fault for bad battery life. It's just that apps haven't yet been updated to work with ios 7. On sept 18 when ios 7 goes live there's a high probability that all these apps will be updated. Once that happens battery life should improve. In the meantime anyone experiencing battery problems should uninstall social networking apps(except for whatsapp...it works just fine:) here's a screenshot of usage(Facebook uninstalled)
 

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OK come on. Something is obviously wrong with YOUR specific install, be it app, iOS installed funky, restored bad settings etc. But it's clear that 99.9% of the iOS 7 GM users are not experiencing 17% battery life loss in 2 hours without ANY use.
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i'm stuck in this mess... please help me:(
 
battery issue fixed on my 5

My iPhone 5 had the terrible battery drain on iOS 7. Yesterday my iphone was dead before noon. I followed a few steps mentioned.

- I reset my network settings 1st - This did not fix the phone.
- I then reset with erase all content and settings.

I restored from iCloud and deleted facebook and then downloaded facebook again. Now my battery life is better than I OS 6!!! I have used the phone heavy since 7am and have 80% left. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
Oddly enough, I was having awful battery issues on Beta 6, as in down to red by about 10:30 in the morning.

However I have been on GM for about 5 hours now, and with my normal use level I am at 73% which seems about what I was getting on iOS 6.

(iPhone 5)
 
Jhill12 said:
Anyone else dealing with terrible battery 25% in 2 hours
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I've been following this guide since ios 7 beta 1. It has helped improve my battery life. You can always pick the ones you want to turn off or not (i.e. parallax effect or use a static wallpaper instead of dynamic).

here is the link to the guide

http://snapguide.com/guides/save-ba...45963-37&utm_referrer=https://www.google.com/

EDIT: beta 5 was the best for me and beta 6 was tough on my battery. I just finished installing the GM and followed the guide again. Hopefully the battery life will be better than beta 6
 
All over LTE. Mainly just web surfing and texting with like 50% brightness. I never did a clean restore but I think battery is pretty decent enough.
 

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i'm stuck in this mess... please help me:(
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I would suggest a couple of things.

First, try a restore to iOS 7 GM. Second, it may be an app you use regularly that simply isn't compatible with iOS 7 quite yet, despite "working." You may be waiting till the 20th for a "working" update, or perhaps beyond. This isn't likely, but it's still a possibility.

Either way, if this issue happened after upgrade to iOS 7 GM, it's clearly a software issue of some sort.
 
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
 
Average to below average.

Here is my first full day with iOS 7 GM. Backgrounding turned off. Parallax turned off. No push but many notifications.

Setup as New not Restore.

I went to almost 7 hours and 19 hours before the phone died.
 

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When the using my 4S with GM on it the battery drops REALLY fast...like 25% within two hours of wifi browsing. The odd is, when in standby it barely uses any power! I just updated yesterday.

On my iPad mini it is different. I also updated it, but it uses battery the same like with 6.1.3!
 
Poly said:
When the using my 4S with GM on it the battery drops REALLY fast...like 25% within two hours of wifi browsing. The odd is, when in standby it barely uses any power!
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Mine's exactly the same! When using the iPhone 5 with iOS 7 GM, it goes down around 1% every 2 minutes - that's awful.

But last night, it managed to go down only 2% on 9 hours of standby.

I know it's doing less on standby, but how can it differ so drastically?
 
I can defo see iOS6 style apps draining my battery more... Especially whatsapp, I texted with my gf for like an hour and battery went down 20%. Brightness is maybe at 35%
 
Dan14 said:
Mine's exactly the same! When using the iPhone 5 with iOS 7 GM, it goes down around 1% every 2 minutes - that's awful.

But last night, it managed to go down only 2% on 9 hours of standby.

I know it's doing less on standby, but how can it differ so drastically?
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I still don't know, sadly.
Did you update, too? Instead of restoring?
 
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