iOS 7 consumes battery power faster?

marxs wrote:

I have a quesion about this.

By default,this IOS 7 should use more battery resources than IOS 5?

No; iOS 7 should use less power than iOS 5. At least it does on my 4S. I can't compare on my 5S because it never ran iOS 5, but its battery life is significantly better than any other iPhone I have owned.

I have used IOS 5 (forgot the exact version) until now on a 4s with a battery life from 2 to 3 days (much more than what I actually expected when I bought it).Now with IOS 7 it keeps me no more than 24 hours.I stil don't have the reported "drain" problems with x procents gone in y minutes,but I'm still to far for what I had before....of course,settings are the same (location services,wi-fi..and so on).

-Do I have a problem or actually I should be happy with those 24 hours on the new IOS ?

-Upgrade has been done over the air/wi-fi and I also did restore all settings after.A clean install of the IOS from iTunes might help?How this can be done?

I've always been happy with 24 hours. I don't know how many days my phone will go, because I charge it overnight, every night, so it has a full charge in the morning. Depending on how much I use it I may or may not have to charge at the end of the day, but that is consistent with the phone's specs and my usage pattern.

thanks for reply,

In this case something is wrong with IOS7.And if this should not be the normal behavior for this version I want some fixes to this issue.If is not a bug,I'm willing to try with a clean install,via itunes this time.Might help?

It took me 2-3 days because normally I didn't use it so much on wireless/data.But the same is also happening now.

It's very annoyting to charge it every day at almost same hour.

With the IOS5 was almost like a Nokia for me in regards to battery.🙂

You were very lucky to get 2-3 days; the overwhelming majority of iPhone users have to charge the phone every day. iOS 7 does not in itself use more power, but it added features that use power if you enable them.

You can check the actual usage by going to Settings/General/Usage. The "Standby" time is actually total time since the last full charge, and "Usage" is the total time the phone's CPU has not been idle. It obviously is not idle when you are using the phone, but there are a lot of apps, both built in and added from the App Store that can run in background, so this is also included in Usage. You can control what apps run in background by going to Settings/General/Background App Refresh. In addition, apps that can receive Notifications can run when a Notification is received. This includes any Push email accounts, plus apps like Facebook (probably the biggest user of Notifications), Words with Friends (and any multiplayer game), WhatsApp, Tumblr, snapchat, twitter, Instagram, etc. You can control this at Settings/Notification Center.

Apps that use Location Services can also run in background; you can control these at Settings/Privacy/Location Services.

You don't appear to have a sudden battery drain problem; that is usually associated with an app that is stuck in a tight loop. The symptom of that is "Usage" and "Standby" will be the same.

Yes,from the "drain" point of view should be fine.Actually from 1:00am until 07:00am last night,only 3% were lost.It seems that when it's on standby is fine.But when I'm using it on internet,or for anything else (even just to unlock it) these precentages drops much faster that on the previous IOS.

As for the running applications,everything is as before : back app off,location center off,wi-off off,bluetooth off and so on...as well as the application running - which I'm closing them from time to time.So no obvious changes in general usage or in the used applications by comparing with the IOS5.

I will keep an eye on usage/standby.

thanks,