iPhone 4s with iOS 7.0.2 Battery Drains FAST!

Same issue here. In my family we have a 4S, two 5, and two brand new 5s iPhones. I'm seeing worse battery performance than ever before.

Same here. after updating to 7.0.2 on iphone 4 . battery drains fast !

Hello, i am experiencing the same batterie trouble... draining fast. When i first purchased my iPhone 4S it was one of those serial sumber phones who experienced batterie trouble with iOS 6. Then a couple of days later "BINGO" apple released an update resolving the issue. I upgrated the same 4S to iOS 7.0.2 and the problem is now on over again... it is seriously exhausting to handle troubles like that especially from Apple who should be more professional in testing before releasing. In addition: all the advices on turning some features on doesn't work at all cause we are not talking about minor battery life problem... it is a serious drain. Hope to see an update soon.

I had major battery drain issues, and finally my phone is back to normal. I did it all, toggled off all switches recommended to save battery life, rebooted, hard reset, restore from backup, full restore to factory settings, nothing worked. I decided to let my phone totally drain until it shut down. Interestingly enough, it was draining 10% or more per hour on standby, when I hit 9% it took 8 hours to reach 1%. When my phone was finially drained I hooked it up to wall charger and charged back to 100% and now my phone battery life is back 🙂 . Currently I have spent 29 hrs standby, 1hr 30min usage and my battery is at 47%. I recommend to everyone to recalibrate their battery and see if this doesn't eliminate the battery drain issues with 7.0.2

Wait.. You said after "recalibration" it's back to "normal" and you get 1h30min usage and your battery is at 47%?

I used to spend 1h30min and be at 80% or higher.

I was able to get 7-8 hours usage out of a full charged battery, now I'm getting 4hours or a bit more.

I regret upgrading, so very very much...

Apparently this topic is 4S ... I have a 5S, but same problem!

Your "calibration of the battery" can not be cause of the change: a battery is not "calibrated", just the electronics are calibrated to finding the 0 and end point again. The battery is still the same after this.

But it can not hurt either, just an extra cycle.

I'm sorry to hear the problems you are having with 7.0.2. I have a 4s and experienced these same problems with that latest 6.? patch. But I have since updated to 7.0.0. Since updating to 7.0.0 my overheating battery drain problem has gone away. 7.0.0 is buggy but I think I will stick with it because buggy or not, I can't use the phone if the battery is dead and it is burdensome to have to keep worrying about whether the battery will stay charged until I can get to a point where I can charge it again before the phone goes dead.

In the last 6.? patch I tried all the "recommended" things but they did not really work all that well. Having said that, it seems turning off wifi and 3G helped... but why do I need an iphone if I can't use wifi and 3G? I did turn off the parallax effect (reduce motion), and the unnecessary notifications in my 7.0.0 patch... don't know if that has made a difference... but I figured anything can help... especially of I couldn't care less about those features...

I also found that the hyped security issue is not that big of an issue. If I turn off my photos then nothing is really accessible even if I hack into the phone because none of the visible apps can be activated...

sigh... very disappointed in Apple which I used to equate with quality... now I am wondering... interestingly it seemed to me every other patch that was available had a battery drain problem on my phone... the 7.0.0 seems to not have it but if 7.0.2 does then I will wait... maybe 7.0.3 won't?

Hey - teen son and husband had this issue - maybe this link will help you? Good luck! 🙂

http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html

or

http://www.copytrans.net/blog/how-to-save-iphone-battery-life-ios-7/

Same issue here with iPhone 4 and iOS 7.0.2. After 30 minutes of light usage it lost 25%!!

Turning off wifi seems to stop it from draining so quickly (although not very convenient when one needs wifi!).

Battery was GREAT with iOS 7.0.0.

Probably too soon to tell, but my iPhone 4 seems to have magically fixed itself. I downgraded to 7.0.0 which improved it, but battery drain was still higher than normal. By accident though I put 7.0.2 back on because I accidentally clicked to install it in iTunes. When 7.0.2 went back on, the battery drain was back to horrendous again - approximately 25% per hour just on standby. I have tried everything, background updating off, turned cellular access off for most apps, turned off notifications & push email etc, but no matter what I did, it was still draining at the same speed. Curiously, it didn't seem to matter whether I was using the phone or not, it still drained at the same speed. Anyway, today at work, this morning it was draining fast as per normal, put it on the charger at lunch time, and I don't think I did anything different to what I did all last week, but when I took it off the charger at the end of lunchtime, it seemed to stop draining fast. I looked at it about an hour after lunch expecting it to say 75%, and it still said 100%. After 4 hours when I went home from work it had only dropped to 96%. It's now 12 hours later, and I've given it light use since work finished, and it's only down to 80%. This is what it was like with IOS 6 :-)

I've also noticed that the phone now feels cool, while I was having the rapid discharge problem it always felt warm to touch. I hope it stays fixed. I just wish I knew what changed so I could offer assistance to all the others who are still having the discharge problem, including my wife with her 4s.

Every post on downgrading says it can't be done and the "community" doesn't support it. Some argue downgrading is worse because bugs were fixed... Never mind bugs that were introduced... Since I wasn't able to find a thread that explains how this is done, how is this done?

@grazza72

@McNeophyte

Downgrading has nothing to do with the ""community doesn't support it".

We here are not Apple but users.

Apple does not "endorse" it. Under the Terms of this Forum, it can also not be discussed here.

You will, what some call "brick", your phone. You will certainly loose your warrantee.

It will also never accept an update again.

Now, this said: when you are continuing to discuss this here, this thread will be closed by the moderator, this will be unjust to the O(riginal) P(oster) and others that are hoping to find a solution or the participants that are searching a solution for them. So please find another forum for your discussion.

Lex

Does Apple staff/managment know about the problems iOS 7 is causing to the iPhone 4S battery?

Do they care?

I am seriosuly thinking about switching to Samsung or Sony, I don't want to but I do not have any other option.

Yes, they do know about it. And they care. iOS updates are certainly coming, but we here do not know when.

Nobody is keeping you to switch to Sony or Samsung, good brands also.

Thanks... hopefully the thought and discussion police won't shut this down. I understand this is leaning towards a different if not futile thread... my question wasn't intended to highjack the thread but to gain understanding. My frustration is that for as long as I have been researching a solution for this problem, there never really seems to be any solution. Every now and then somebody comes up with some suggestions that might help but only marginally as the main issue is not addressed. I see a lot of distress calls for help and you hinted at the only solution that seemed to make sense.

I noticed that certain updates actually have the battery problem fixed, at least for my iphone. My current 7.0.0 seems to have sufficiently good battery life and I am quite pleased with that. Others have mentioned the same with 7.0.0 and then Mr. Hyde popped up his ugly head when they updated to 7.0.2... I had a similar experience with the 6.x.x patches. I really regretted "upgrading" to the last 6.x.x patch because that had worse battery problems than any other release for me. Other people might have other experiences which makes this problem quite odd.

So at least from an end user perspective, it seems the only real solution isn't to ignore that some patches just aren't good for at least some of us but if Apple would embrace that fact and allow us to choose to revert back a version. I made this suggestion in the suggestion link but maybe somebody else at Apple will grasp the concept here and pass it on to the appropriate people and not terminate this thread because an illegal topic was broached... If I upgrade and don't like that version, it would be very helpful to go back to the version I had which was working sufficiently well, a reversion point. For example if I upgrade to 7.0.2 and don't like it, I can get back to 7.0.0 then I would have a solution to a problem that works for me. When 7.0.3 comes out, I can try that and see if it works for me. If it does great if not then revert back to 7.0.0. I think if that were offered, we might have a solution that might work. It may not fix the underlying problem but at least we'll have a phone that we won't want ot throw away because we can't get 100 yards from a wall outlet without running out of battery.

Am I wrong? Is this not the only option that would seem to work? I'm sure I'm not the only one who tried all those little things one can do to extend battery life. But when the phone's pocket warmer app turns on and starts to become quite hot, the battery drains out in a few hours... turnning off "movement" does next to nothing for extending the battery life. I do not see controls to stop the phone from whatever it is trying to do when the phone starts to heat up... is it looking for a network? Turning off 3G (in my case) and wifi helps but sometimes that isn't enough. So the only other option is to turn off the phone or keep it teathered to an external battery or go from outlet to outlet trying to stay connected to some power source so that I might have enough standby time to make it to the next charge. If I can revert version using a rogue method then can't apple provide an approved method? I believe there is a need here and at this time, since Apple can't seem to figure out how to fix this problem universally, then maybe Apple will reconsider its position on this issue so that at least there is a workable solution?