Battery drains after installing iOS 7.1 on my iPhone 5

Same here. i'm still testing out 7.1, and i've turned off all the things that drain batter. I'm on wifi. when i had the phone crash issue with 7.0.XX at 1:30 pm i would have around 60% battery left, and that was terrible compared to what i had before ios 7.

now it's 1:47 pm and i have 12% left. i can literally stand here and watch my phone on the home screen and it's going down 1% every minute. before i start ranting and cursing and spitting i'm going to drain the battery all the way down to see if that fixes it. good news is i haven't had it shut down on me yet when lower than 30%.

just to keep updating. it's stopped at 10% and it's been there for about 10 min now.

Happened to me today. After I updated last night, my iPhone 5S lasted only 3 hours today.. Usually it runs from morning to evening or even to night, but today from morning to early afternoon like really? I put airplane mode and still it drained 10% to 1% in only 5 minutes ? Weird right? Whats weirdest is that after a full charge middle day now the battery is back to normal n lasting.. I'm so confused really.. Just like if there were hackers pulling data out of my phone..

Have you tried doing a full restore? give it a try and see if there are any changes. Chances are that something when wrong with the update, it happened to me on previous updates. Good luck!

I'm having the same problem. I am afraid I will get stranded without it. I travel all the time.

Same issue on my iPhone 5s. Had no battery problems before 7.1 update. Usually in the morning I use it on and off for a couple hours and it would go down to 90%, today it went to 84%. And I'm just using Safari and Twitter and Facebook. No email, no games. It's brutal. I thought the update was supposed to fix battery, not make it worse. They better send out another update.

Try turning off Background App Refresh and/or Location Services. That will help with battery life. I found this worked for me. Additionally, I turned them back on sometime later and the battery drain problem was gone. I'm still testing this, but it's looking good.

I know, it doesn't make sense, but it worked.

I updated my iphone 5 to the new iOS (7.1) 2 days ago and noticed that without making any calls and only using it in the house over wifi just to check emails the battery drains from 84% to dead phone in about 3 hours. To trouble shoot the problem I went to settings and did the 'Reset' to the phone. I charged it last night to 100% and unplugged it to go to bed. This morning phone was dead. So not sure how long it took for the battery to drain again, but it still not normal. Now after backing it up I am restoring the phone. It says 6 hours remaining for the software to download. I know it was very fast when i did the update a couple of days ago.

I'll keep you guys posted if the battery issue is resolved with the restore.

Is the location services icon showing in the status bar?

Location services icon was not showing up. But based on your comment above I turned background App Refresh' off and restarted the iphone. Left it that way for a couple of hours and turned it back on. It still not showing up. But in last 3 hours from 100% battery its down to 65% now. The location service icon is still not showing. I am still downloading the update its been over 3 hours ... it say 4 hours to go. I am doing it through itunes and once the download started i ejected the phone. So that I test the battery drain untill the down load is done.

Try turning location services off for a while and see if that helps with the battery life. If it doesn't, try calling Apple Tech support. At least this will help get it noticed as a problem.

Restore will reset all your iPhone to factory settings, it will erase everything. You should make a back up first to either iTunes or iCloud (iCloud offers 5GB free only). However, I don't think you really should restore your iPhone. It will take a lot of time and it is useless for such an issue. Though, you can try resetting your iPhone settings by going to "General > Reset > Reset All Settings". This will delete only your iPhone settings like wifi passwords, privacy settings, notfiications settings, locations, dictionary saved words..etc. It will not delete your photos, contacts, apps and your personal data.

Did you recognize that the "loading wheel" (next to the battery percentage) is permanently spinning? I have that problem. Maybe some kind of bug is making some background process downloading something all the time...?