battery drain on 7.0.6

People that had problems with battery drain after updating to ios 7.0.6 should try this, switch off Siri and observe ur battery drain issue, if it is part of the problem to the battery drain then I suggest or request that apple looks into the issue.

haha, lol... sorry but it seems to be a very sensitive Issue to *request* something... you run into the danger of getting your post erased... happened to me with the first attempt of posting the SIRI problem..

May I know which generation of iphone u using?

5s

Installed 7.1 last evening. Charged battery 100%. Lost 30% overnight! So, doesn't fix battery drain problem.

Installed 7.1 yesterday evening too. No change in the battery life issue that I can tell. I started out with 100% this morning and was at 39% by Noon. Before the 7.06 and 7.1 updates, I would be around 70% with the same mixed usage. I'm disappointed. Apple please fix ASAP.

I would really be interested in the experiment of all you guys with the 'My problem kept being a problem'-Answers, to switch off SIRI completely for one day, and check if it helps...

I am as surprised as you are about my discovery, since SIRI worked fine for me for about 2 years, and only started draining the battery since iOS 7...

And there must be others, who use SIRI without the problem, 7.1 or else, so it might be an effect between SIRI and something else, like a contract with t-Mobile or whatever...

but Apple would not start looking into it, as long as there is not enough proof, that SIRI is the troublemaker or part of the problem,...

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Ingo

Honestly, I don't think it has a thing to do with Siri. IMO, I believe it's just something that has changed or is not working as programmed starting with iOS 7.06. I'm not sure if they tried to address it in the 7.1 update, but I don't think it's realated to Siri specifically.

But, I would not have any previous data on my end to prove that Siri has changed in any way. I would have to have tried turning Siri off before iOS 7.06 and 7.1 was released.

hi

i guess that is a misunderstanding: I came up with the SIRI solution workaround 2 days before the release of 7.1. - and it changed my battery from holding only 4-6 hours to holding 36 hours... yes you read correctly, from half a daylight to 1.5 days altogether.

then 7.1. came out and everyone started possting: I still have the problem...

but I believe no one actually turned SIRI off, neither before nor after the update...

hence I would like to humbly ask you all to try it for a day; load your iPhone to 100%, switch SIRI off and use everything else as much as you like, and then post, what happened..

I myself just did this with the 'old' iPhone 4S which I have still laying around and which I haven't updated yet. I startet at 5 to 6 local time, and I will post, how long it holds without SIRI on. (It too went off after 5 hours, after the update of 7.0.x and was the hardware which actually started the trouble for me in January 2014...)

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ingo

PS: to lsmoore02: my history is this: My phone died within 4-5 hours (new, clean install, the third new hardware in a row, since Apple actually replaced a brandnew 5S with another new 5S, in order to find out, whats happening...)... and since I switched off SIRI it holds the battery for over 24 hours even if I use it a lot... I got the idea, because it had to do with networking and could not be a hardware problem anymore, and since the clean install also no App problem anymore... so I switched off SIRI and from one moment to the other the battery held 30 hours longer...

Apple required to be address this battery drain problem as soon as possible.

I think battery is a life of mobile phone. If battery dead then phone is also dead.

Phone battery should be as strong as the processor and any other features of phone.

I have turned Siri off so will see if battery lasts any longer. Hopefully, Apple will come up with solution so that Siri can be reactivated.

That might be of use if you had turned Siri off BEFORE you had iOS 7.06 installed. Unless you do, you can't really say that you have a fix for the alleged 7.06 version battery issue. You would have to have a befiore and after comparison. Otherwise, it's just turning off anything and having less battery usage, like turning off Bluetooth or WIFI, etc.

Hi lsmoore

not correct, since Bluetooth and WIFI are services which, when you switch them on or off, are on continuous 'send/receive-mode', while SIRI is supposed to only connect when actually asked something - in my case it seems that SIRI incorrectly connects endlessly and drains the battery, instead of only making contact when needed.

My true fact here is, that two phones hold out 2 days with SIRI off, one with the 7.06 and one with the 7.1 ... and one of them also worked for 2 full days before the update onto 7.06... even with SIRI being on all the time.

So the logic applies: Since 7.06 they messed SIRI up, and they did not repair it in 7.1 - either that, or a connection / interaction between SIRI and something else (maybe something that is new since 7.06)

But I do not need a negative counter example from the time before to see the obvious : my phones work again since SIRI is off,...

it is of very much use, at least for me, since I prefer using my phone for two days, and wait till they fix SIRI (or the interaction with something else)

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ingo

PS - I never called it a FIX . I called it a workaround, since I ultimately expect them to fix SIRI, so we can use it again!