ios 7.0.4 Update battery issue again!

Here is what has solved this problem for me (it may not work for everyone):

I noticed that when this problem happens (battery drainage, hot phone, usage and standby numbers virtually identical), it happens on both my iPhone and my iPad, both of which run iOS 7.0.4, but not my iPod Touch, which has 6.1.5. I thought I'd gotten rid of the problem, and it came back -- on both devices running 7.0.4. It was suspicious that it came back on both devices at the same time.

I noticed that on both devices Safari seems to use a fair amount of data even when it's closed.

I noticed that on my Windows 8.1 PC, Apple IE DAV (which synchronizes IE bookmarks with iCloud) runs constantly, eating up 1.5% of CPU time, even when I haven't changed any bookmarks in days.

I concluded that the iCloud bookmark sync function is choking on something and causing iCloud to alert my iDevices constantly of updates, preventing them from sleeping. I disabled IE syncing in the iCloud utility. Immediately, both my iPhone and my iPad started to have differing usage and standby times: bingo.

I went out for the evening and found that my iPhone 5s was only using 2% of its charge an hour, even with mild usage, whereas before it had been eating up 15% just sitting on the desk doing nothing.

As it happens, I'm using Firefox much more than IE right now, so I'm going to rest and enjoy my iDevices, but I suspect that if I wanted to I could find specific bookmarks that are fouling up the system. It's silly, though, that it's even possible for any of this to happen. What if some hostile person really wanted my phone to get hot and die all the time?

Again, I suspect that there are multiple causes of our common problem, but if you use Windows, you might want to check your task manager to see if Apple IE DAV is hyperactive.

I can't see much you could get done legally. There are so many Apple products

out there being used every day without battery problems Apple could

Defend itself by saying "it's like brakes on a car, some drivers get 40k on a set of

pads while some drivers get 20k. "

And if you took your car in for service, they put new brakes on, and suddenly you were getting 5k, don't you think there's an abnormality they caused?

The bigger issue is that you won't get anything done legally because there are very, very few companies out there who have the time and money to fight a legal battle with a giant like Apple. Unless you're last name is Samsung or Nokia, I don't think you're going to end up in court with them...

my iphone 5c is about 2 months old. upgraded from a 4 to the brand new 5c. it was working fine. all apps were fine and i had plenty of battery life. that was, until i upgraded last week to ios 7.0.4. the battery drain happened almost immediatly. at 100% charge at bedtime. place on night stand in standby with absolutley no apps running and it was at 5% upon waking. and its taking longer to charge. So I took to the local apple store. they ran the diagnostic on it and all is well. battery is fine. could be a bug in the data or apps of my backups. I had tried a restore from a previous backup before the update and that didn't help. apple guy suggested go home, back it up and restore as new. I did that. i didn't load any apps except find my iphone, everything is turned off, ie, locations, notifications, pushes, etc. and still same...battery drains about 5% every 10 mintues or so. ***?!?!? so we're all in the same boat. carrying around chargers everywhere we go. This ain't right!!!

The same story with my iPhone 4s after 7.0.4 update. My 4s is crazy, battery goes down 1%/minute, sometimes 10% in one shot. Safari, camera, SMS, iMessage, simple games... everything kills my battery in my eyes. It can not to work from 9am to 3pm if i want to check internet (by edge, 1h), write some text and take 3 photos. Tomorrow I try iOS 7.1beta, the same story. It is my 5th iphone and it is first time, when I have got a problem and I think about W8 phone. I can't to find any answer, I just see a lot of people with this problem. Apple do something...Or just tell "we see this problem, we are working!".

Hey Apple, do you really read all these posts or you just put them here for decoration !!

There are thousands or may be milion of iphone users are sufering now from the problem of battery drain and till now nothing being done about it !! That is really terrible !!

Here's the thing, and we really can't get around this. If the phone did not lose it's charge quickly in 7.0.3 and all I did was update to the newest build which I've done over my wifi every time then nothing should have changed as I didn't turn on/off anything different.

Of course, Apple in it's infinite lackluster non-apple store customer service, hasn't responded or let us know they are looking at it.

Why should they? As much as people whine they will still just plug in the cord, re-charge, and keep going.

Apple, can you tell us please, when can we see a solution to our problems with the battery drain and wifi connection after updating our iphones with that crap ios 7.0.4 ? !

Sorry for my English.

I have a little bit different symptoms of batery drain after update to iOS7.0.4 on my iPhone 5 (16 GB). The switch from 6 to 7 has shorten the batery life a little bit (under iOS6 over the night i lost 2-3% of batery - locations on, WIFI on, on iOS7 it is usually 6-7% per night (8-9 hours) - nothing more. However after updating to 7.0.4 over iTunes (not OTA) i discovered, everytime i get into my car (which was paired with my phone) i lose 12% of baterry in just 1 sec. This happens only after 7.04 update. I tried wipe of, restoring, from iCloud, from iTunes even "forget pairing" for my car. It does not help.

Everytime I got into my car, even with bluetooth off (!!!) in my phone it will loose 12% of baterry in 1-5 sec. and then looses 1-2% every 5 minutes.

Does anyone also face this?

Apple, please give us a fix for this.

I just updated to 7.0.4 and OMG I wish I had researched it! I turned off ANYTHING that would require a connection and actually gained 10% battery life. Talk about a fancy brick.

Add me to the battery drain issue.

Iphone 4S 7.0.4

I spoke via chat with Apple support. After walking through the usual questions, the tech indicated that there is sometimes (like in all of our cases) a problem with an update downloaded over wifi directly to the phone. After a restore as new from iTunes, I'm happy to report that the issue has been resolved on my end. In the comments on the survey after the chat, I indicated that while it was not the tech's fault, apple should really either fix the OTA updates or do away with them entirely.

I am sorry to say that we have done a restore as new from iTunes on three units, ie. iPhone 5, iPhone 4 and iPad 2 but this didn't help in solving the battery drain at all.

Apple delete my prev post because they did not like it :) try not to use their SAINTS NAMES. But Censorship does not solve anything. Thanks to THEM (C, F, I), No one software product of last 4 month are working properly. Now I found one more problem/resolve that fix battery draining like big military radar ( but in real, if phone always work it can injure me by its airwaves). I realize that after restore (before i try to set up as new, don't help) iTunes copy all my music to others, not into the music. I unchecked sync music in itunes, than sync my iphone. Than check to sync and sync my iphone. After i add few more songs and sync my iphone, beautifull/amazing/ best for all of the time :) (cens.) draining get back. Usage are near the same to standby. Than i do unchecked - sync - checked - sync again. Problem is gone. Now i need to do it every tyme when i sync my iphone to prevent draining.

And now one big question - If you can not do pretty system without J and F, maybe you need to make this system a little bit more opened, to your users can see what "cens. by apple, always patented" :) happened to your crafts and fix by themselves? Restore as a new and restore with copy is not a solution in this situation. This is "censored by pretty amazing beautifull genius" to have the support that can say only restore. Why do we need all this? Does genius restore their phones every evening? Like a new? Did you know that icloud sync not take battery draining back? Did we know that new amazing ios version not have this problems? Maybe it has a lot of new "pretty" features?

BRStrunk like an Apple, he wan't to read about that problem:)

I think your post may have been deleted because it's basically unintelligible. Obviously English is not your first language and your writing is incredibly difficult to understand.