Battery drains after installing iOS 7.1 on my iPhone 5

Have you tried turning off Background App Refresh and/or Location Services?

Is the Location Services icon showing on the status bar?

Helpful hints:

So i was reading all the information here and I think I have solved the lighting speed power drain. I chatted with Apple care and they recommended to do a full restore. That didn't help. They recommended for me to purchase a new battery for about 80 bucks. Not happening because the diagnostics showed the battery is perfectly healthy. I disabled the following: reduced transparency (found in accessibility, then increase contrast ), reduced motion ( found in accessibility). I also went to mail (in settings) and turned off the PUSH and set all to manual, but you can set it to Fetch at longer time intervals. However what really kept the battery from draining was to Turn Off Background App Refresh (found in General) for all the apps. That stabilized the drain. It seems that with this new update these apps are constantly updated all the time, destroying the battery life at a rate of 1% rate per minute. This works!

My son was having this problem with his 4s.

We noticed a few things which seemed to effect battery and did a backup restore

What effected battery: COLD! It has been very cold in Connecticut and the phone doesn't do well. Below 20 degrees Fahrenheit it will go from full charge to less than 20% and shut off in a very short time. My son was snowboarding regularly with the phone in an inside pocket, but it would die and he would loose ability to use it. Back in a warm car it would say 50% battery in 20 minutes.

On warmer days his phone worked fine.

We did a full backup and restore and went through all settings. The update changed all settings, turned on Bluetooth and GPS. Fixed sync settings, what was using cellular (vs wifi)

This brings up the last, and most annoying part of the IOS 7 update. According to many posts, once the screen goes to sleep, the iPhone uses cellular rather than wifi. If you are in a building with poor cell service or in an area with no wifi, your phone would constantly be searching for a signal it can't find. This wears out the battery quickly.

This is dumb. And only iPhone does this, android and windows phones don't.

I have upgraded to IOS 7.1 yesterday and battery drains so fast. It was 87% when I upgrade and I have only 12% at 5:30pm.

It looks like drain almost 2 times faster from the previous version. I always turn off location and using wifi most of the time.

This has to be fixed soon!

I have the same issue with battery life, 3rd charge today and its hardly been used?

Also i have an issue were my msgs do not always display in the notification centre anymore? I can have a tx from a person and it displays in there, the same pedson can tx me again and it doesnt display there? Im confused

Can anyone help?

Thanks

I updated my 4S while I was driving to work this morning and my phone was at 100% as I had the car charger plugged in the whole time. I was in meetings for 2 hours and as I was walking back to my desk, I noticed the phone in my pocket was warm. I checked it and battery was at 2%! I have most app's turned off in background app refresh. Google Maps, Find Friends, Google, Weather. Groupon and Fitbit Tracker are the only ones turned on. I have a hard time believing these apps are the culprit. The only time it gets this warm is when I stream netflix while sitting around at doctor appointments and such. My cellular usage for 2 weeks into my billing period is at 2.4 Gb which is abnormally high for this point in my billing cycle. I used only 1.8 Gb last month. The App Store is at 289 Mb. Would an upgrade trigger updates to apps without my telling it?

I think I have found a solution for this!

Now this might sound strange, but it worked for me, so it's worth trying:

1. Go to Settings - General - Background App Refresh -> And turn this option OFF

2. Let your iPhone drain itself until shutting down by itself - Important!

3. Recharge it again - it will flash an empty battery icon for a couple of minutes until booting up. This is normal.

That's it. problem solved for me!

My iPhone 5S was losing 1% of battery every couple of minutes. I ended up with no battery at 1PM !

So, I've recharged it, and so on. At the end of the day, I did not have a charger with me, so I just waited to get back in my car, and the iPhone just shut itself down.

The Background App Refresh setting was turned off by me as a "last resort" move to save just a little more battery... But now I keep it like this (Who needs this anyway?).

I hope it will work for you guys too.

(let me know out of curiosity )

Nir.

Ok !!! So after spending all day on and off (literally with iphone5) this is my status. My battery drained has slowed down but I will know for sure over night. I have tried "General > Reset > Reset All Settings".Ok !!! . And then turned off App Refresh manually for all the apps one-by-one. After that I turned the option off. I decided to check the battery life again.

I noticed that black 'location service icon' would keep on showing up on as soon as the phone goes to stand by/lock screen. When I would unlock the phone it still stays for 10 or 15 seconds and repeats this behavior. I went to 'Settings > Privacy > Location Services > OFF.

I also turned off most of the other things that I could find including Disabling the LTE.

Guess what !!! my battery drain issue is fixed. Last 1 hour only 1% battery used. But I feel like I am using a Nokia 6160 from 1996. Hahahahaa !!!!

thanks for the suggestions. I posted the same issue in another thread here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5992210?answerId=25158811022#25158811022

I havent reset the settings but I will later today, what I think has worked so far is turning off LTE. So I have this great iPhone 5S with all the bells and whistles turned off to save battery life, ironic!

I have had 1% battery life since 6.5 hours ago and the phone has still not died, I have used it sporadically (about 10 times every hour) and text messaged, surfed about 5 webpages, and checked email. Apparently the changes work well.

Apple please!!!!

Restore back the full screen Photos id!

The screen looks awful now.

Thks.

I have do e every single suggestion mentioned in this thread. I brought my phone into the Apple store yesterday and the guy turned off the "Background Refresh App" and made sure I had turned off a bunch of other settings, (which I already had done). He gave my phone back and told me it was fixed. The battery loss became worse! I made an appointment this morning with a tech at the Apple store. What he told me was the most asinine explanation I have heard yet.

According to this Apple tech, I must have had an usually good battery for my phone and now it has "leveled out" to "normal" battery life - and yes, this can happen over a period of two days! It just so happen to occur at the same time of the recent update. This also goes for the other issues I was having with my phone. BUT, I should not worry because in four months I qualify for a free upgrade. I will have a big selection of phones to choose from.

I have an iPhone5!

I guess my new selection will be of the Samsung variety.

Still on iphone 5 hoping that 6 whenever its released can resolve the cable issue!