ios 7.0.4 Update battery issue again!

They do, if you have documents and settings from icloud activated.

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Wrong its nothing to do with settings whatsoever. Everything turned off and in standby I get about 4.5 hours before my phone is completely dead

Even in plane mode the issue is active.

Tomorrow i'll have a technichal appointement in an apple store.

Will see what they say.

Just curious. How many phone owners here let their battery fully drain down then

Fully recharge it on a monthly basis as recommended by Apple.

Doing this has seemed to improve my batteries life.

I let mine fully drain about 3 times a day and fully charge it, and it has done nothing. Of course its pretty easy to do when your losing 1% battery every 2min on standby.

The battery drain people are talking about has nothing to do with settings or usage, its either a problem with the software or a hidden hardware issue.

I have swapped a good battery of my super fast iphone 4S running with ios 6.1.3 with another iphone 4S running with that lazy crap ios 7.0.4, and i still get battery drain and ofcourse I don't want to mention the usual lag and laziness !!

We have looked at this issue for a couple of weeks in our office as we all use iPhones

All of us who updated to iOS 7.0.4 have this issue those of us who did not update do not.

We have found that it is the cellular data and if turned off the battery drain returns to normal.

Turning the data off is not the answer a fix from Apple is what is urgently required but the bug is definitely living to use data.

We do not want to keep switching stuff on and off we want the phones to preform as they did originally. Our phones in our business are not fashion accessories they are essentials and need to be fully functional for more than 5 hours per charge.

I have also noticed on three iphones that the battery drain is much more when using wifi than cellular data (3G), which should be the opposite per Apple's iphone power specs. The same drain happens even when the iphone is in standby mode !!

I went to the apple store and they told me they know nohting about that issue.

The wanted me to start as a new phone.

Many people in this discussion said that this solution doesn't fix the issue.

I said no thank you becaus i would have to many thing to re-install.

I think that the only thing to do is to wait for an update.

Hmm that's odd. I get the weird battery glitch when I'm strictly using LTE. I have terrible life on it too even with full signal. I did a test from fully charged and did some web browsing on safari on only lte till the battery died. For the first hour of usage my brightness was on full so I know that had an effect. But after that I was at about 25-35% brightness and I could only squeeze 3 hours and 12 minutes off a full charge till it died. Is that typical for a year old I5? I swear I got at least 5 hours on 6.1 with LTE. (Still far off from the rosy 8 hours apple says) On wifi only I can get between 5-6 hours with the same kind of usage. With ios 6.1 it was 7-8. The ios 7 is using more power while running. My standby time is normal as I only lost 4% over about 9 hours lay night. After a few full charge and discharge cycles back to back to back to back I think maybe my ios 7.0.4 might maybe be learning the battery again as the meter haven't been erratic lately but.... That could change! Just sharing more of my expierences! I hope 7.1 increases battery life on the iphone 5!!!

I've been to Apple store. They ran a diagnostic on phone. All hardware is ok, including battery. "Genius" had no other suggestion except to restore as new. Which i've done about 4 times to no avail. Also did a DFU mode restore. Seems to have gotten worse.Then I did a chat on the apple store site. They also ran a remote diagnositc and it looks fine. The tech took thru all the settings and turned off almost everything. Now previously, i had tons of apps installed with selected locations, etc set. Now, I have a bare phone with only stock apps and everything is turned off. Then they had me use the phone, from 100% charge at end of chat, til either end of my business day or I hit 20% power left then contact them again referencing my case number. So from about 12 noon to 5pm, power dropped to 10% by time on my way home and died as i got into the house. So I rechatted them. They apoplogized for the issues and made tons of notes in case docs and told me to take case # and make another appoinment to apple store. Not sure what the result will be yet, but i'm hoping to get a new phone as its only 2.5 months old. Very frustrating. I have to have a charger with me and the phone charging at all times. UGH!

I'm sure you've read my posts throughout this thread regarding my own experience with the battery drainage. I also tried all the usual remedies, going so far as to set it up as a new phone and using it without any of my old info or apps installed. Nothing had helped. Oddly enough, it took getting a new phone, albeit with 7.0.4 already installed, to resolve my own issue. I hesitantly restored the new phone from my backup which thankfully did not cause the problem to reappear. At this point I would absolutely demand a replacement phone and hope that it also works for you. Several weeks have gone by and I'm still at my 'normal' use battery drain.

Good luck!

I seem to be one of the only people here having the most serious problem described who actually fixed it himself. I suspect that there are multiple wacky reasons why these phones are draining their batteries so quickly, so I'm not promising anything, but Apple's solutions (DFU restore, get a new phone, etc.) are not addressing the real problem. I encourage you to consider:

1) Are your Usage and Standby times in Settings/General/Usage virtually the same? If so, the problem is that your phone is never going into standby. That would explain the battery drain.

2) In my case, my phone and my iPad had the battery problem, got better, and then had it again - with the problem starting and stopping simultaneously on both devices. I realized that it was the iCloud bookmark synchronization process that was keeping the iDevices awake. On my desktop, the Apple IE DAV process was churning away constantly, even though I hadn't modified bookmarks in days. On my iDevices, Safari was registering 1 MB of usage every couple of minutes even when it was closed. When I disabled IE syncing, it fixed everything.

I'm not saying that this is precisely the problem on any given phone, but do try things like turning off Wifi, resetting cellular data statistics, not using the phone for a while, and then seeing what program or service is most active. You may be able to pinpoint what is keeping your phone awake all the time. In my case, I could do something about it, and now my little machines work and I don't have to be anxious waiting for the next iOS update.

Well I am pleased that worked for you but it does not worked for us we have turned off all i cloud stuff but as long as the cellular data is turned on our phones constantly use it resulting in a 5 hour battery life. Apple replaced my IP5 3 weeks ago and the issue remains. I am sat at home now watching my Femtocell working like **** due to my phone hammering the data. is not just me all of us in our office have exactly the same issue and I see others on here have exactly the same issue too. my phone is also currently connected to my Wi Fi but it is not using that whilst asleep just the cellular data. if I turn it off my phone will run for days on a charge as it used to Rob

Have you tried resetting cellular data statistics and then watching which apps and services are using cellular data? I think there could be clues there.