Iphone 5s battery drains fast after ios 7.1 update.

If it makes you feel any better, many of us with the 4S are also experiencing battery drain issues. I upgraded from the 4 to the 4s (I didn't want to spend the extra $$ on the 5). It gave me great battery life before iOS 7.1 - often 36 - 48 hours. After update less than a day, now with a few fixes about 18 hours with very light use.

lately i have noticed the battery drain as well.

Hi Guys!

I hope my case is of any help...

After the update battery drain started and I was running out of juice early afternoon with light use on my 5S. After trying out all sort of tweaks with no mayor improvements I got courious to know what was the battery life on stand by would be. I did the following: 1- Erased all apps that are not part of the IOS. 2- Airplane mode on. 3- Wi-Fi, bluetooth, multitasking and location off. 4- Brightness to minimum. 5- Fix wallpaper. I turned the phone into a useless device.

To my surprise the batery drain of 7% hour with normal settings during a six hour period decrease to 5.6%. I realized that a phone that will run out of battery at that rate without any use and in standby is not something that Apple would have designed.

In the Apple store they would not recognize anything wrong with the phone and told me that this is the way the phone was conceived however they replaced it for a new one. I am very satisfied now because everything is back to normal and I loose 1 to 2 % and hour with normal use and a few percent over night.

The new phone has 7.0.3 though and I am affraid to update the software unless Apple does it for me , or a new version comes out and it is stated it fixes the battery drain issue.

Summary, if you phone has a high consumption on stand by and with de settings mentioned above there is nothing you can do without Apple replacing the phone with a lower IOS or a phone that does not have the same issue with 7.1.1.

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Trevor - thanks, this absolutely solved my problem. Turned off "set automatically" for time zone several days ago and my battery life went right back to where it was before the 7.1.1 update. Thanks for doing all the leg work on this.

MSS

You say it's an Automatic Time Zone problem. Just a thought, but are you near a Time Zone boundary? That might create an extra battery load as the iPhone attempts to determine which zone you're in, using GPS.

I'm right in the middle of the GMT area, so I doubt that this would be a problem.

Some thoughts.

Obviously, it's a software problem, not hardware, unless iOS 7.1 has a magical feature that wrecks the hardware. It can be done; when I worked for IBM, I saw the result of Product Test's tape-snapping program, which was quite impressive. It used resonance to get the tape reels running in opposite directions 😮

I doubt, however that Apple developers are quite that malicious.Every indication is that it's related to iOS 7.1's use of true multi-tasking. Does it strike anyone else as odd that this facility has appeared in a sub-release, not in a major release like iOS 7.0? In my long experience in the software world, that usually means the the developer couldn't get it ready for the announcement of the major release, It also often means that it's defective when it is rushed into service.

The big question for me is why Apple's Product Test facility (and I hope, against all the evidence, that there is one) hadn't picked this up before releasing the software.

Either:

1. They had picked up the problem but were determined to meet the release date, regardless of the software problems.

2. Their test environment is such that it didn't show up.

If (1) then the problem is incompetent management, and all customers can do is go elsewhere.

if (2), and I suspect it is, maybe we could persuade Apple Product Test to test the software out in the field, without being able to plug the phones into a socket every four or five hours. (The same applies to the iPhone's hypersensitivity to water, but that's a story for another day)

My experience and that of my wife on 4S iPhones is very similar, so I'll just detail mine.

I've noticed much shorter battery life on iOS 7.1 and 7.1.1 than on 7.0,x. Under normal use, I'm getting about 5-6 hours rather than 10-12.

But it gets worse than that. On a country walk, using my iPhone sparingly for navigation and photographs, it suddenly cut out while showing 17% battery, fortunately at a point when my route was obvious. Ten minutes earlier, I'd have been horribly lost. If I hit the power button, it showed an image of a power connector, the iPhone equivalent of "Feed me!". I walked on for another half-hour and, more in hope than in anticipation, I tried again.

Lo and behold! It started up, alleging that it had 22% power. I took the opportunity to text my wife and check my position, which was wise, because it cut out again and once more demanded to be fed. This happened three or four times in the next hour. The longest spell of up-time was, ironically, when the battery indicator showed just 1% before dying permanently. When I'm out now, I carry a portable power supply, which is a joke when I've spent 300 of your English pounds on a top-of the range device.

This never happened before the 7.1 release. When husbanding the battery life, I could always rely on the power percentage displayed to within 1 or 2%. So, just what is wrong with 7.1? Do tell, please, Apple...

Now that it's working, you might want to try turning the Auro setting back on to see what happens. IIRC, I had to do the off-then-on-again process about three times for it to 'stick.' Stuck is has, though; says he knocking on head....

No, I'm not near a time zone boundary (Toronto), so it's not that. Nice try though. ;-)

Actually, that day out provides an acid test for distinguishing Caring, Sharing Apple from Heartless Megacorp, Inc.

If my iPhone had failed ten minutes earlier and I'd walked over a cliff, would they have:

a) Apologised profusely, made a substantial payment to my widow, and put a team of top-notch programmers on sorting the bug?

or

b) Got their lawyers to issue a statement denying all responsibility for death or injury caused by reliance on their products?

What do you think?

Note, this is a procedure That I followed to fix the Hyper Battery Drain feature

That I got for free by updating iOS to 7.1.1. All of the other crap you need to do to

Slow down the "normal" battery drain may still apply.

Here you go.

Settings->General->Reset->Reset Network Settings

Reconnect to your network.

My Hyper drain Fixed. A real fix. Phone battery drain back to "normal" which

Is never good enough

Note: this also fixed Hyper Drain on my iPad Air also. That device has

Other charging issues but Hyper drain gone.

Thanks! This solved it for me.

No luck. I have reset the entire phone, altered notifications and now the network reset suggested by ds3lc.

Until I uipgraded the ios, I had to charge the phone every day or so.

I fully charged it 4 1/2 hours ago. Since then, I have made one call and sent 5 texts. I have 45 percent left on the battery left.

rekelly35

Sorry this didn't work for you. Hate to beat a dead horse but I did the following before resetting. Not sure it matters but...

I had RESTRICTIONS ON and in restriction menu:

1. I turned off all programs in the ALLOW list,

2. In PRIVACY list I changed all to disallow changes,

3. in ALLOW CHANGES list I changed all to disallow changes.

You should have lock icon next to all in lists.

4. Then Disabled Cellular data, bluetooth, then

5. I put in Airplane Mode.

6. Made sure Background APP Refresh is disabled

7. Itunes WI-FI sync disabled

8. Basically I tried to disable all slime that starts getting in line to screw up my phone before/after NETWORK RESET process.

9. Then I did NETWORK RESET.

After coming out of reset I immediately disabled Cell Data Usage to prevent the slime mentioned above.

That's all I got....

Remember to go to restrictions and allow programs (safari, camera, etc). I would keep all privacy and account settings locked until you need to allow them. Example-If you want to add an email account you need to unlock accounts. After adding changes go back and lock. Prevent the slime. Keep lock on Background APP refresh.

Background APP refresh is allowed after coming out of reset(loss of battery) unless this is locked. Slime.