Q: Iphone 5s battery drains fast after ios 7.1 update.

You don't won't to turn location services off. This disables Find My iPhone.   

I think I found a workaround. First, charge your battery to 100%. Then hold down the top button, when it says slide to power off do so. The battery should stay at 100% for at least a week or so, if you happen to turn it back on at that point.

In the meantime, go out and buy an Android phone and put your SIM card into that one.

I never got apples advertised 8 hours on 3G was more like 6 hours and now after 7.1 I now get 5.35 usage (using mostly 3G) really disappointed. This is with no wifi or blutooth or location services or automatic downloads - everything switched off. Display is dimmed on auto. Even installed 7.1 using dfu clean install.

I have an iphone 4s and I have always managed to get around three days out of it before needing to recharge it, I have not changed any settings, added any new programs other than the update for 7.1 and all of a sudden I find I need to charge it every day now, sometimes it does not even make the day out !! I can watch the battery go down even though everything is turned off and I am not using it. Something is VERY wrong with this latest update and needs to be sorted fast, a phone that will run out in  a day is no good to man or beast if I am out in the wilds.

This is ridiculous!!  I completed the most recent update and my battery life is draining so fast!  I am also in the middle of texting and my screen flips for no reason.. I hope this is fixed or I will have to choose a different type of phone when I am due for an upgrade next month....  <SIGH>  I would not have completed the new update, but it said it would HELP battery life.... SMH

I have the 5 and have tried all of the suggested steps to try and resolve this problem and so far nothing has improved my battery life. Prior to this update I was able to get through an entire work day with minimal usage now I'm lucky if I get 4 hours before I'm down in the 20% remaining.  I've also noticed since the update my phone feels much warmer to the touch than it ever did. 

@fullgravity

Instead of time-wasting and usually unhelpful fallbacks like resetting your phone or reinstalling the OS, why don't you try some of the more relevant suggested troubleshooting methods:

• Hard Reset
  Hold down the home & power buttons until your phone restarts.
  

• Recondition your battery
  Fully charge the phone, let it drain fully until it shuts itself down, then recharge fully
  
  
• Background App Refresh
  Go to Settings - General - Background App Refresh and turn this off for any apps you don't need to be updating constantly
  
  
• Location Services
  Go to Settings - Privacy - Locations Services and disable for any apps you don't need to know your location
  
  

The comments are not unhelpful there feedback.

Location settings are turned off, auto brightness on, auto downloads off, Bluetooth off.

I have the 5s and since keeping the same settings I'm now only getting 5.25 usage down from 6 hours on 7.0.6.

There's definetly been a reduction in usage time in my experience on the 5s and it's no where near apples advertised 8hours on 3g usage for 5s.

"In the meantime, go out and buy an Android phone and put your SIM card into that one."

Samsung's Astroturfers are out in full force today.

For every post by someone claiming they've had it with Apple and are switching to Android, check out their user profile and you'll see the account was created less than 24 hours ago. This is financed by Samsung's $15 million marketing budget.

Do a Google seach for Samsung astroturfing and enjoy the results.

• "Taiwan fines Samsung for astroturfing internet comments..."
• "Samsung fined $340,000 for faking online comments"
• "Second Samsung scandal this week: PR firm caught astroturfing forums"
• "Samsung admits to astroturf attacks on HTC..."
• "Samsung hired students to astroturf..."

With my brand new iPhone 5S I have typically lost 15% hour or more using cellular data (just email, browsing, maps, ... NO Games FB Twitter)

Yesterday with a full phone and light use (no voice, some browsing & app updates, plus fair bit of FaceTime) I was down to 20% after only 4 hours on WiFi !   My iPad3 does leaps and bounds better than that!

I also saw that the location arrow was on frequently, even though I had waze, maps, etc OFF. Looking at the apps that had used my location recently, there was only waze, which was closed???

So I went over all my settings again, which still looked pretty tight. Closed all but a few apps. Did a hard shutdown. When the phone came back on, there was that location arrow again for several minutes. So I figured I had to kill that. 

Instead of looking at my apps, none of which were open that use locations; I dug one step further. All but two Location Services > System Services were ON (I turned off Location iAds and Popular Near me previously); so I turned them all OFF: Cell network search, compass, diagnostics, time zone, traffic, wifi networking and Frequent Locations.

That stopped the lcoation arrow dead cold, where in the past few days it was seemingly on every time I used my phone, without going out of the house or changing location.  I haven't fooled around yet with turning them ON one at at time; but things seem to look better.  I have logged 30 minutes of screen time on it; looking at stuff, without using data admittingly and lost 1%.

Now I know I probably need to have at least some of these on for my phone to function; but I'm not going to wait and see, till I run into something that doesn't work.

Just a quick related question, as I've just read about this but am out of the country right now and have my phone turned off, bluetooth/wifi/cell disabled, and airplane mode on in order to avoid massive accidental roaming charges.

I got my 4S in mid-October of last year, and the last major IOS update I recall was pushed down as an installation package, but I had the option to install or not install right away. The only thing, though, was that if I chose not to run the update right away, the installation package file couldn't be deleted from the phone, and just sat there taking up space until I finally gave in and ran the update. Stop me if I'm wrong, here.

Now that I've gotten a heads-up in the news and the forums, would it be possible for me to take this route when I return home, switch the phone back on, and switch all the bluetooth/wifi/cell back on, and turn airplane mode off, returning the phone to normal operation -- at which point Apple will try to push the update down to my phone? Just thinking... it'd probably be less headache to let the update package file sit harmless on my phone; even though it takes up space, at least it wouldn't be causing any trouble.

Thanks in advance,

ms

Correction: $14 billion marketing budget

By the way.

What do folks use to take screenshots that include the battery level?

I have taken over a dozen screenshots in the past month or so, trying to document how poor my battery life was after 1 2 3 4 hours of usage; and when I look at the screenshots; not a single one of them includes the top bar with signal strength, carrier, time and battery % level.

iPhone 5S iOS 7

In Settings, Doing a Reset > Reset All Settings in General Settings fixes the problem.

I also hard restarted the phone.

It worked for me.

Solved the problem.

I did this on my iPad mini also.

No problem since...

@icerabbit The standard Home+Power keyboard combination captures your entire screen including the status bar with battery level.

When you look at your screen capture image in your photo album tap once on the image to hide the photo album's header bar, which is what's probably blocking your view of the status bar.