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iPhone 5 Battery

My battery life is actually better

I see a lot of complaints about battery life and people saying that its an IOS 7 bug but my battery life has actually gotten better since I installed the beta on my Iphone 5. I wonder if this is unusual??

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Yeah, battery on my iPhone 5 running the beta has been rather week, and I turned nearly everything off.
 

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I've found one solution that has slightly improved my battery, go to privacy --> Location Services --> system Service --> Frequent Locations --> turn off

this is a constant gps tracker to provide traffic info when traveling to frequent places I guess like work or going home. I only found out about this feature when reading here https://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/1...information-for-frequently-visited-locations/

might be placebo effect but I am seeing slightly improved battery
 
After reading around yesterday I figured out that the activation bug for iOS 7 was fixed when restoring so I downgraded to iOS 6 and then restored to iOS 7 so I would have a clean copy of it. Since then I had been on wifi mostly using safari and listening to iTunes radio with a small amount if LTE usage. Here are my stats for the end of the day. Does anyone know if these are close to what the recommended usage for an iPhone 5 is?
 

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that's not normal.
I'm getting over 8 hours usage and 1 day stand by...
I unplug my phone at 7 am and plug it back at 11 pm with around 20% left.
Delete Facebook, that helped me a lot.
Ill post a screen if the ui doesn't crash today.
 
cristian.rivera said:
Since my initial post I've just been browsing macrumors and I'm down to 77% already. I guess I'll just wait and see how it is over time.

Also when I got the phone I did the restore to iOS 7 which has a bug in some cases where it won't activate with the developer servers to I went back to iOS 6 then did an update to iOS 7 which doesn't feels as clean. Could this be a factor also?
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That really isn't all that terrible, especially considering you are running iOS 7. I find that my iPhone 5 which is currently on iOS 6.1.4, the battery is never a constant decline. As soon as I unplug it, it stays at 100% for quite a while, but then drops from 99% to 80% relatively fast. it then slows down for the rest of the day stalling around 20%, and then the rest is pretty consistent. While I wish we were at the point in time where we could get an all day battery life (12-24 hours), don't expect it with any smartphone. You have nothing to worry about.
 
cristian.rivera said:
Hey, I just bought a White iPhone 5 from AT&T yesterday and immediately installed iOS 7. I've only been on safari and iTunes radio mostly and I've noticed my battery draining a lot faster then my previous iPhone. I know it definitely has to do with iOS 7 and I haven't used iOS 6 on the iPhone 5 so I have nothing to compare too. I attached my usage stats. Is this normal and if I switch back to iOS 6, from experience how long does the battery last?
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Looks normal.

iPhone is rated at 10hrs usage, I get about that. 9-14 depending on how heavy of apps I use.

So that means 1hr usage down to 90% battery.

And you have 1hr7min down to 86%.
Seems spot on per spec, especially considering iOS beta has all the debuggin routines active, and brand new not fully optimized animation effects.
 
I guess that's kind of normal as we just installed it. I mean, I downloaded 15 gigs of app and installed them today. That must stress the processor significantly! I had 3:30 from 92-0% battery.
 
That screenshot is strictly iTunes radio and that usage isn't bad also. I'm going to see how today goes. Also how does removing Facebook effect that battery if I make sure it's closed in the multitasking view? I also checked apples battery stats and they claim you can browse using LTE for a full 8 hours which seems impossible.
 

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Holty123 said:
Really? you bought a new IP and then you installed BETA 1 ios? and you are asking about battery?

IT'S A BETA
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I know it's a beta and I needed to upgrade anyway. I've been using betas since iOS 5 I'm just wondering what everyone else's usage looks like and posting mine to provide other people with something to reference too.
 
I have this config in location services and has massively improved my battery life compared to the last couple days
 

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andybno1 said:
I have this config in location services and has massively improved my battery life compared to the last couple days
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I pretty much have all system services turned off in location services since the days of iOS 6 if not even before--don't really see anything particularly useful from them, but do see GPS use from at least some of them at times when they are enabled.
 
SuperRob said:
My battery life problem was caused by an iCloud account that wasn't syncing. (I figured it out when I realized I was missing contacts from that account.) I deleted it, then re-added it, and my contacts popped up, my phone cooled off, and my battery life went back to normal. I seem to remember this stuck syncing being the cause of a battery drain issue on a previous iOS version as well.
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Yup, this has been a long-time problem in iOS, for example, on the 6.1.3 3GS. There, iCloud runs all the time at 100% CPU usage after setting the phone up and you absolutely must remove and re-add the iCloud account. (More info: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1586046/ )
 
cristian.rivera said:
Hey, I just bought a White iPhone 5 from AT&T yesterday and immediately installed iOS 7. I've only been on safari and iTunes radio mostly and I've noticed my battery draining a lot faster then my previous iPhone. I know it definitely has to do with iOS 7 and I haven't used iOS 6 on the iPhone 5 so I have nothing to compare too. I attached my usage stats. Is this normal and if I switch back to iOS 6, from experience how long does the battery last?
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Please correct me if Im wrong but I thought iOS 7 releases in the fall.. How do so many people have it? Its in beta I thought? Sorry I havent been reading up on Apple iOS.
 
You have never used iOS 6 on the 5 but you KNOW it is iOS 7. Hmm okay.

Also if you had bothered to pay attention you would know that iOS 7 is only a developers preview release not a final, so bugs and issues are to be expected
 
I've got an iPhone 4S and have the same thing.

When I had the Facebook App open yesterday I literally lost 30% in 20 minutes. It dropped quicker than I could keep up. Plugged into a laptop to charge it was up and down 1% at a time.

It was never the best with iOS 6 but this is much worse.

Its a Beta so lets hope it improves :)
 
My 4S has terrible battery life on iOS 7, but it's a beta so I didn't expect great battery life, especially with all the changes (background updating etc) and new animations (dynamic backgrounds etc).

I forgot about the battery drain and had to switch my phone off at work as my travel pass is stored on my phone and i couldn't risk it. I've since taken a charger to work. :)
 
I notice battery life being much worse with the beta IOS 7 on my 5. I'm plugging it in at work to help make it through the day.

I've heard complaints with past upgrades where a backup/restore to the new OS can effect battery life. I don't know if that is a case here.

My 3 main issues are:
battery life.
One APP I run just crashes fast. I'm sure that it will be fixed at some point. It isn't critical (and I have an iPad :)
I'm having some Mail issues. Where the old mail app would have a Download remaining message for large messages, many times that doesn't appear in the beta. And, of course, having to swipe the opposite direction to delete a message.
 
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