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iOS 7 GM battery life horrible!
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Battery life on my old 4 is worse with the GM (did update, but nothing running on device. its all stock apps and one test app), on my 5 the GM has been fine battery wise.
With my iPad 2 the battery life is great. I've set it as new device and only restored a few apps settings (save games mostly).
well, my iPhone 5 and iPad 4th gen are doing just fine, i haven't noticed anything different battery consumption wise on my iPhone 5, but my iPad 4 seems to last longer now.
This is one of the reason that Apple has resisted even including options that will increase battery drain (like widgets, animated backgrounds and multitasking). People will use these options and then complain about the reduced battery life.
I installed iOS 7 a couple of days ago. My battery life was literally cut in half and wouldn't even last a full day, despite me being too busy at work to play with my phone, so something was wrong. This morning I noticed hundreds of duplicated drafts and quite a few old emails that had become marked unread in my Exchange email account. Looked like almost the same problem caused by iOS 6.1.1 or 2, so I deleted the Exchange account from my phone and battery life is now back to normal for me.
Exchange, icloud, ft and imessage are all known to have caused battery drain problems in the past.
That's somewhat shoddy, IMO. Could definitely be a bit better.
Obviously people's experiences are going to differ. I am definitely having "mega drain" on my iPhone 5.
I asked this a while ago, but not many commented. Do you guys think the parallax and dynamic wallpapers have much of an effect on battery? I have tried to test if out, but I haven't really noticed a difference.
how could it be better? standby affects battery life too..
19 hours standby and 5 hour usage with 10% left is GOOD.
people are expecting too much.
No, but I really, really hate doing that.
Is that solving the problem majority of the time?
beta 5 & 6 were nearly as good as ios 6.1.4, now ios 7gm makes me want to say its even better than 6.1.4 but ill just say its the same as it.
Mine is about the same as iOS 6 once I deleted one app in particular that was draining the battery. I wonder if some of the iOS 7 app updates we haven't gotten yet will help with unintentional battery drain. I've also noticed that the difference between using it on Wi-Fi versus LTE is a huge difference at least for me. My phone while at work gets about 1/2 the battery that my phone when I'm at home does. I know this was always the case but it seems more pronounced a difference with iOS 7.
While not horribly so, I, too, have noticed the battery draining slightly faster. By the end of the day I usually have about 30-40% left. Now, I'm going down below 20%. Like all initial iOS releases, looks like it's time to go messing about in Settings.
