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What's YOUR best trick for battery life?

Steve Jobs is Dead

Battery life is just one more indicator in iOS 7 that Steve Jobs is dead and Apple is now run by total incompetent morons! Any more updates like iOS 7 and I'm headed back to Microsoft! From 24 hour charges to zero battery in under 8 hours with a Mophi???? No way to enjoy that!. You must keep your phone plugged in!

bandofbrothers said:
My top tip :



Turn off the battery % and enjoy your iPhone.

;)
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rcancill said:
Battery life is just one more indicator in iOS 7 that Steve Jobs is dead and Apple is now run by total incompetent morons! Any more updates like iOS 7 and I'm headed back to Microsoft! From 24 hour charges to zero battery in under 8 hours with a Mophi???? No way to enjoy that!. You must keep your phone plugged in!
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I just don't understand all these posts from iOS7 users who are happy with their battery performance. Like you, I am experiencing the worst drain of ANY iOS update - and then some. It's like someone swapped my three month old battery for a five year old one whilst I was asleep. Silence from Apple as always, we don't even know if they're aware of the problem let alone working on a fix!!
 
sunking101 said:
I just don't understand all these posts from iOS7 users who are happy with their battery performance. Like you, I am experiencing the worst drain of ANY iOS update - and then some. It's like someone swapped my three month old battery for a five year old one whilst I was asleep. Silence from Apple as always, we don't even know if they're aware of the problem let alone working on a fix!!
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The issue isn't a widespread one which usually means it's something more likely related to various people's installs, configurations, and/or devices (rather than some actual bug or issue that Apple needs to address).
 
C DM said:
The issue isn't a widespread one which usually means it's something more likely related to various people's installs, configurations, and/or devices (rather than some actual bug or issue that Apple needs to address).
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Seems pretty widespread on the iPhone 5 to me. Clean installs, switching off all heavy drain settings and doing this numerous times has had no effect whatsoever. Same with my family and friends. It's only people on the internet who don't seem to be experiencing this problem and we can't all have defective devices if they worked perfectly prior to the installation of iOS7.
 
The battery drain issue is real. A simple google search will show you.

For example:

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/money/consumer/dont_waste_your_money/apple-appl-ios-7-battery-drain-how-to-fix-it1380196142251
 
Ottoman1 said:
The battery drain issue is real. A simple google search will show you.

For example:

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/money/consumer/dont_waste_your_money/apple-appl-ios-7-battery-drain-how-to-fix-it1380196142251
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Indeed. It would seem that the best 'trick' for battery life is to stay on iOS6 or if you're unlucky enough to have upgraded already, then the best trick is to hope that Apple fix it.

I can't believe that they rushed out a 'fix' for the stupid passlock like it was some kind of priority!
 
sunking101 said:
Seems pretty widespread on the iPhone 5 to me. Clean installs, switching off all heavy drain settings and doing this numerous times has had no effect whatsoever. Same with my family and friends. It's only people on the internet who don't seem to be experiencing this problem and we can't all have defective devices if they worked perfectly prior to the installation of iOS7.
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And it's the other way around in my experience where my devices and those of my family members and friends don't seem to be experiencing anything noticeable and only some posts on the internet (which happen with practically every update) talk about them.

If this was an actual widespread probes there would actually be way more threads like this one with way more people posting in them. That alone is a good indicator of something at least possibly being widespread or not.

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Ottoman1 said:
The battery drain issue is real. A simple google search will show you.

For example:

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/money/consumer/dont_waste_your_money/apple-appl-ios-7-battery-drain-how-to-fix-it1380196142251
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It would be much much more talked about and reported if it was truly widespread. Threads here and there and even some articles are almost always there with any update actually, it's nothing new and certainly isn't widespread with most of those updates yet some threads and articles exist for most of them.
 
battery

I have both a 5 and new 5S(both on iOS7). I find after testing 4g/LTE wifi on/off settings do seem to make a difference only because of what I believe the root of the problem to be. The all new re-vamped locations services and notification center constantly pounding your antennas. I turned off every thing in notifications center and turned off everything in location services and it seems to give slightly better battery life. But I do believe there to be a problem with iphone 5/5S, the 4's and 4S people I know don't seem to have as many problems.
 
I feel like I'm using one of the older Droids now with iOS 7. Battery drain is insane. I've used my phone for 27 minutes and my battery is already at 90%. All I've done was answer a couple txt messages and listened to about 3 maybe 4 songs that are on the device, not Pandora or iTunes Radio. I can't make it thru an 8 hour day now without recharging. I used to be able to go a full day with ease. Now I bring a charging cable to work. :mad:

iPhone 5 iOS 7
Restored as new device, reset factory defaults
Bluetooth off, Location Services off except for Maps & Siri, Background Data off, Parallax effect off, LTE off, WiFi off, AutoUpdates off, AutoBrightness off. Mail is set to manual. Phone is 3 months old battery condition is good.
 
Battery Life

Just turn off the Battery Drains you don't use, if you don't use it, you won't miss it.
 
It is definitely a bug. To people saying that it is caused by "using the phone more because of the new OS", that "it is normal for a smartphone" etc.: no it is not.

The battery percentage/usage ratio (as calculated by the phone itself not by some random estimates) is in iOS 7 MUCH lower than in iOS 6. Despite the fact that all iOS 7-only features are disabled.

There is definitely some bug plaguing some of the iPhones. Four hours of usage is the maximum I get with low brightness and nearly everything off (location services, background refresh, parallax etc). Again, this is not normal.

I am going to take my iPhone 5 to Apple next week.
 
Still seems to me like this issue affects random people with various devices. If it was truly widespread then just about everyone would be freaking out. But, for many of us the battery use stayed the same or is trivially shorter. Most of that is due to the parallax and 3D effects which can be easily turned off.

I would also gues that there is some quality control differences with each battery in each device so some of us probably got "better ones" from the factory than others.
 
I keep mine off all day, and turn it on each night at 10:00PM, look at if for 5 minutes, and then turn it right back off again. I get a month out of it, easy...
 
It is very simple dont use the phone you will have tons of battery life...haha.

For real i just have the brightness somewhat low, I keep bluetooth off and it usually last pretty good on my 5. I dont go through and close my apps very often, I dont think that helps increase the battery by much.
 
I've just notified something that's happening on my 5s pretty sure it's more to do with iOS 7 but its only a guess.

To all who have had poor battery life (mine has been particularly shocking today) do any of you have items in your passbook? I had an iTunes festival pass in it and noticed whenever I was at the lock screen passbook would be constantly using location services so see if I was close to the venue so it cold pop up with my ticket.

I've now switched off passbook location services and it doesn't show up that its being used anymore from the lock screen. I could of course just delete the ticket but I hardly use passbook anyway and I wanna keep it as a momento :)

I'll report back in a day or so.....
 
My battery life (on an iPhone 5) SUCKED after installing iOS 7. My battery life is AWESOME now that I took my 2 exchange / active sync accounts (Gmail, and corporate) and set them to "fetch" every 15 minutes instead of "push." Can't believe that iOS 7 is apparently so bad at "push" e-mail accounts? I never had a battery life problem with the same accounts set to push in iOS 6...
 
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