To those with an iPhone 5, how is your battery life?

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  1. locoboi187, Nov 12, 2013
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    locoboi187 macrumors 6502a

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    Okay so my previous experience with iOS 7 led to terrible battery life even with fresh installs. Lucky, I am currently on iOS 6 receiving near the rated 10 hour battery life for the iPhone 5S. My day consists of a morning jog (bluetooth/GPS), playing a couple of games for a little bit, phone calls, messaging, safari, alien blue app etc. In the picture attached, I was in a mix of Wi-FI, LTE, and 3G. I am wondering how things are now with 7.0.3 and if any of you can report similar figures with similar usage. Considering the iOS 7 update. Thanks!
     

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  2. moldy lunchbox, Nov 13, 2013

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    I'm still on iOS 6 too getting excellent battery life, from what I've read you can probably expect about half of that on iOS 7 using LTE-3G/Wifi, a few games, messaging and Safari like your usage above. Hopefully, someone can prove that false.
     
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  3. mattlynch90, Nov 13, 2013

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    [​IMG] just finished a night shifts worth of web browsing, Facebook, twitter using 3G and wifi
     
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  4. siurpeeman, Nov 13, 2013

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    my usage consists of mostly web browsing, twitter and reading rss feeds. throw in between one and two hours of audio streaming to my car via bluetooth and maybe a bit of navigation, and i get roughly 7 hours of usage against anywhere from 18 to 24 hours of standby. on ios 6, usage was roughly 8.5 hours.
     
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  5. locoboi187, Nov 13, 2013

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    Hmm a few mixed results, to be expected of course. Maybe I should stick to iOS 6 for just a bit longer. Will have to decide fast once a jailbreak comes out though.
     
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  6. Armen, Nov 13, 2013

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    I'm getting the same battery life from iOS7 as I was with iOS 6 with the same habits/location/usage.
     
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  7. MLCM, Nov 13, 2013

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    Same thing here. Although at the beginning I was disappointed with the very fast consumption of the battery.

    What I did, after reading something in this forum, was to cycle a couple of times the battery taking it to the very low % possible.

    On two of those cycles, i let the battery drain until reached 1% and the phone switched off.

    Later i fully charged and then unplugged. since then the battery has been performing as it was on iOS6.

    Phone is an iPhone5 with roughly 6 months usage.

    cheers,
    M
     
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  8. C DM, Nov 13, 2013

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    On average, I notice more or less the same with my iPhone 5.
     
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  9. Armen, Nov 13, 2013

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    It sometimes varies if the celltower near work is having issues. Then it will drop LOL.
     
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