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

freediver,

I was doing them that way as well, it is just that when I view the image on my phone, it never shows the top?

Well - doh - newsflash. When I tap sharing as if want to email myself the photo then it shows the whole thing.  Geez Apple, I had tried to pinch out, tap, double tap to get a full screen photo/slide, ... and probably combined with having poor battery life, when I single tapped I never paid attention to the clock changing.

Live and Learn! Feel like an idiot. Keeps one humble.

I am not convinced that "resetting all settings" can be a fix; because then you would have to go through all the various location, background refresh, push and what not settings again, in order to lock things down.

That's what we had to do when iOS7 came out.

So, if you have trouble with battery drain after 7.1, it makes no sense that removing all the restrictions with a reset all, which turns everything back on to factory default, would fix a battery issue.

I have a Apple Iphone 5C and iam feeling everyone on here with the battery life issue. My phone is affected as well and when will Apple realize there is a big problem with their phones since the last update to 7.1.

Sounding like a broken record on this forum, but my iPhone is running out of juice too darned quickly. Did a full charge last night, went into airplane mode when it was at 98%, woke up at 7AM, it was at 94%. Perfect, or so I thought. Turned airplane mode off, WiFi on, and surfed for 10 minutes on Safari, battery level down to 55%!! Cell stayed with LTE all the way thru. What is going on, Apple??????

My iPhone 5 is also with same behaviour usage hours shows two hours with use and 3 hours standby I will soon post a screenshots of showing usage hours waiting to get it finished.

SOLVED MY DRAINING PROBLEMS!

I sympathize to you all that have seen your battery start draining, some with the 7.0.6 (or before?) and with the 7.1 update. After the 7.1 upgrade, I went from 2 days of "normal use" to 2 hours, having the CPU running at 100% most of the time.

I was about to get crazy ($900 for a unusable phone???). I did everything, everything off, reset, restore from iCloud, full restore from iTunes, always with worst results...

I do not know if this was already mentioned here, but in my case the culprit was a/some process(es) related with iCloud (sync).

I disabled "Documents and data" and "Safari" and - MIRACLE - that was it, back to CPU at 5% and normal drain...

(I disabled everything from iCloud and put them on later, except those ones).

SOLVED! 

Hello,

Whoever curious to read.

Tim is not Steve Jobs but Tim is Tim.

Recently Apple released new update for it's most advanced operating system iOS to version 7.1. The basic feature of a mobile is Call and SMS. But this ain't happening to be the most advanced operating system now, This update brings tremendous amount of degrade in signal towers and battery health becomes dead now.

Apple should have to take immediate corrective actions on this and should release an update with quick fix. This time we cannot able to use devices this is quite real and serious.

Thanks

     I reluctantly installed 7.1 after being advised by an Apple tech that it contained necessary fixes for a potential security breach. I upgraded to a 5s from a 4s in December so my phone (and the battery) is only three months old. When I attempted to call my wife from the grocery yesterday afternoon, I received a warning that my battery was at less than 20%. Because it was Sunday, I had barely used the phone. I attributed the power darin to the instillation itself (although that didn't seem to make sense). When I brought the phone home and started charging it, I noticed that it was going nowhere fast. I commented to my wife that something was wrong with the phone and that if it didn't get better today, I was going to have someone at the Apple Store look at it as soon as I could get there. Nevertheless, it was at 100% by 4:15 a.m. this morning when I woke up. HOWEVER, by 5:30 a.m. and not any use, it was at 75% (!!!). I checked the "push/fetch" settings to insure the phone wasn't  continually searching for e-mail and then checked every other setting which seemed appropriate. I then turned on my laptop and checked the news. The first story was a headline screaming that everyone else was having this problem. Come on, Apple, this is not what we expect from you. Fix it!

Wow -- my iphone 5c has been disconnected from the power source for 15 minutes, already down to 94%.  What the heck did Apple do with this "upgrade"?

I posted earlier, but after reading the posts about the phone running hot, I realized I had omitted that condition. When my phone rang yesterady afternoon, my wife picked it up to hand it to me. She almost dropped it because it was so hot. I haven't used it  at all since early this morning, but it is very warm--even warmer than when I use it extensively. Something VERY different is going on with this phone.

I've also did not mention the warm...but at permanente 100% usage of CPU you may get the picture. Very hot indeed.

Again, it was fixed after switching off (some) iCloud settings/sync ("Documents anda data" and "Safari").

After that I have almost 3h of efective usage and still 62% of battery.

Is anyone facing signal fluctuation issue. My iPhone 5 after iOS 7.1 is on loop of restarting signal.

I have the same problem with battery on my iPhone 5s too amongst other issues eg: poor wireless signal, freezing apps. Also I can't even do a hard reset the logo doesn't appear again after holding down both buttons down for ten seconds. It did before the update. Not happy!!! PLEASE sort it out!!!

I have the same problem as well. Phone battery dies incredibly fast. Brutal to have ANOTHER problem with an IOS update so soon after the last major bug.

I don't doubt that some people have this issue.  I do not.

What I suggest is the following:

1. Hard reset hold both buttons until Apple logo appears.

2. Restore from a sync and backup.  This made a difference for me, battery life got much better.

3. Limit push notifications to those you really need.

4. Limit location services to those you really need, and watch to see if the indicator comes up.

Nate