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iPhone 5 Battery

If you have an iP5 running iOS6 and you have virtually every single background notification turned off, you can expect to lose about 10% an hour screen on time for regular use and web surfing (not including games which drain the battery much faster).

That's about 10 hours of battery life in optimal conditions. You can read that stat in several places (http://blog.gsmarena.com/apple-iphone-5-battery-test-is-done-proves-itself-as-a-thin-powerhouse/). It's fairly accurate compared to what I've had myself. Most people won't see this though because they run so much stuff in the background like e-mail, Facebook, weather, stocks, etc. I don't care for that. I just check those things manually when I feel like it.

Since going from iOS6 to iOS7 I've noticed a very small loss in that level of battery life. Thankfully I haven't come across the battery bug others have. I just turned off all background task tonight though so we'll see how it does tomorrow.

tl;dr:

On an iP5 with iOS7 you can expect some pretty damn good battery life... Assuming you don't come across any bugs and you don't have a lot of functions running in the background.
 
iPhone 5 still going strong!

The only thing I've turned off is Bluetooth.

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Having turned off all background functions my battery life improved significantly... Definitely pleased :).

So glad not to be experiencing the nightmare battery bugs some other people seem to be having.
 
My battery life feels better now, though I'm not quite sure why. This was after a heavy day of usage with web browsing, games, and lots of texting. Granted, I was on Wi-Fi all day, but that's only a little over an hour less than what I normally got on iOS 6.
 

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This is what I got on the first day, a little bit of calling, music playing the majority of the time. Half lte, half wifi. I also did alot of web browsing and using apps.
 

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alright folks, I finally got my battery/overheating issues resolved. Let me start by telling you that I have access to 3 iP5's, personal (ATT), work (Verizon) and the mrs' (ATT)....I upgraded all 3 to iOS7 (the Mrs still curses me out every morning) but wanted to test it out, all 3 are daily phones and we have been able to deal with the beta issues with no major drawbacks....the only issue I encountered was that my personal ATT phone kept losing charge and overheating all day, yet this was not the case with my work phone (Verizon) or the Mrs' phone (ATT)....after trying all the tweaks with notifications and location servicess I did a quick run down of how I did the upgrades and realized that on the other two I had set the phones as new, while on mine I had restored from my IP6 backup, .....so decided to reinstall iOS7 last night and set it as a new phone, downloaded all my apps from scratch, reentered all my account settings and voila, no more overheating and battery life is back to normal, down to 81% in 4 hours of normal use, battery would have been dead and recharging by now.
 
I decided to go back to iOS 6 on my iPhone 5 because my battery on iOS 7 was terrible.
 

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aldoF said:
alright folks, I finally got my battery/overheating issues resolved. Let me start by telling you that I have access to 3 iP5's, personal (ATT), work (Verizon) and the mrs' (ATT)....I upgraded all 3 to iOS7 (the Mrs still curses me out every morning) but wanted to test it out, all 3 are daily phones and we have been able to deal with the beta issues with no major drawbacks....the only issue I encountered was that my personal ATT phone kept losing charge and overheating all day, yet this was not the case with my work phone (Verizon) or the Mrs' phone (ATT)....after trying all the tweaks with notifications and location servicess I did a quick run down of how I did the upgrades and realized that on the other two I had set the phones as new, while on mine I had restored from my IP6 backup, .....so decided to reinstall iOS7 last night and set it as a new phone, downloaded all my apps from scratch, reentered all my account settings and voila, no more overheating and battery life is back to normal, down to 81% in 4 hours of normal use, battery would have been dead and recharging by now.
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EVERY. FREAKIN. UPDATE.

I don't know how many times this has been mentioned in this forum but people still restore their previous version backups on top of their brand new OS version. This has always caused issues and will continue to cause issues. Apple should disable this options and force everyone to setup as new when updating to a major version release.
 
Geckotek said:
EVERY. FREAKIN. UPDATE.

I don't know how many times this has been mentioned in this forum but people still restore their previous version backups on top of their brand new OS version. This has always caused issues and will continue to cause issues. Apple should disable this options and force everyone to setup as new when updating to a major version release.
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I did an in place upgrade install and have had no battery issues after the first day. Seems there may be some database optimizations for bookmarks, contacts, notes, etc and noticed my entire email account is downloaded. But after that, battery has been on par with ios 6.
 
grockk said:
I did an in place upgrade install and have had no battery issues after the first day. Seems there may be some database optimizations for bookmarks, contacts, notes, etc and noticed my entire email account is downloaded. But after that, battery has been on par with ios 6.
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That's good to hear, but every major update is always followed by reports from users that have upgraded and experience issues of some sort. This doesn't mean all of them experience issues, but enough do that I would never suggest to anyone that they do an in-place upgrade (really it's an install followed by a restore of data/apps from backup) to the next major version. In the IT world I work in (mostly MS Exchange) it's not even supported because of all the potential issues.
 
The only odd battery thing I've experienced was when I had 40% remaining when I went to work and it was dead by the time I left. I'm not allowed to use my phone at work so all I can do is check it in the break room a couple times. I did notice one time when I checked it that it felt a little warm which I thought was odd since I hadn't been using it at all. No big deal since it's a beta, just thought it was worth pointing out that that 40% wasn't enough for 8 hours of standby.
 
Edit: posted in wrong thread - don't own a 5 but still having battery issues.
 
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Rogifan said:
Did you buy this phone for testing purposes? I hope this isn't your main device.
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Why? Whats the big deal? I have a new iPhone 5 and installed iOS 7 on it and it is my only device. I installed iOS 6 beta on my last phone all the way through and just dealt with the bugs.
 
TonyC28 said:
The only odd battery thing I've experienced was when I had 40% remaining when I went to work and it was dead by the time I left.
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Do you turn it off when you aren't on break.

Because if it is on then there are things running. It's scanning for wifi, Bluetooth, pushing email etc. those things don't stop because the screen is locked
 
charlituna said:
Do you turn it off when you aren't on break.

Because if it is on then there are things running. It's scanning for wifi, Bluetooth, pushing email etc. those things don't stop because the screen is locked
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No I just leave it locked. Today I had it off the charger since about 10am. Its 11:40pm now and I'm at 80%. Same exact situation at work. Didn't change any settings. Actually today I received a lot more texts and emails while I was at work. Maybe the battery level readings aren't that accurate. Not a big deal to me though.
 
Zmanbaseball2 said:
Once in a while you might get 4-6 hrs of battery. I always get 5-6 hrs and i think thats great and i always have my battery pack in my bag so I'm good to go.


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I think this is the key, yes it can be a hassle to drag around, but for the piece of mind, if you treat yourself to a battery pack, (I use the Duracell one) and stick it in a jacket pocket, boy it makes a huge difference.
 
Personally, while not greatly optimised at all, I don't think the iPhone 5 battery on iOS 7 beta 1 is all too terrible. One thing I have noticed is that battery life each day does not seem to be consistent. Some days it'll be a constant/ steady drain, while there has been some days where It "stalls" at a certain point and stays around that mark for quit a while, and then it will dramatically decrease within two seconds. I've also noticed that the time to recharge varies greatly each night.
 
naasrd said:
I think this is the key, yes it can be a hassle to drag around, but for the piece of mind, if you treat yourself to a battery pack, (I use the Duracell one) and stick it in a jacket pocket, boy it makes a huge difference.
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Im over loaded. I have a the Anker Astro E4 13000mah:) 6-7 charges on my iPhone 5


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Zmanbaseball2 said:
Thats the best battery life i have seen.


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I guess there is worse out there .. Can't complain but there are some people that are having awesome batt life. Don't understand that concept

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Actually the time in the usage section isn't correct. It's a little off. So technically I burnt 11 % in about 42 minutes but the settings tell me about an hour! I'm not complaining because I'm aware it's a beta. Just weird for the settings to be off like that.
 
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