Battery drains after installing iOS 7.1 on my iPhone 5

jake2775 wrote:

yea this is just simply F@&kin ridiculous, over 700 dollars for this absolute piece of **** that wont even hold a standby charge for 6 hours .... yea its time to move on away from apple, along with many many others that are discusted with this **** . DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT APPLE , OR ARE YOU SIMPLY JUST ANOTHER CORPORATE GIANT THAT GOT RICH OFF ITS CUSTOMERS THEN SAY THE **** WITH YOU ALL ? THIS IS NOT NOT NOT ACCEPTABLE IN THIS DAY AND AGE FOR A PHONE BATTERY TO NOT EVEN LAST HALF A DAY .

None of us work for Apple, so why not complain to them rather than your fellow users?

http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I personally found one app that was constantly using Location Services and once I removed it, the battery life on my iPhone 5S returned to normal.

Depends. Do you have Applecare?

This is so frustrating! And began with iOS7.1.

The battery in my iPhone 5 drains super fast! Even in stand by!

Not only that, but it can have 30% and suddenly shut down, like if the battery was empty! Tried to turn it on and I get the "charge me" image. But if I wait for a while, it does turn on and shows 19%.

I can literaly see the battery charge going down by 1% every 5 minutes without doing much with my iPhone.

What to do?!?!?!?!

😠

I have the answer for your problem firtly my iphone is 4s its battery last for 2 hours only after using it.my phone always shut down on 20 percent. i cannot give the cure of the ios 7.1 battery drain but i noticed one day that i was listening music with an app called filemaster and my battery went to 1 percent and irealized that on 1 percent i played music for 1 hour while playing games that day i realised that percent = 50 percent in ios 7.1 but the phone when ever i tried it went off on 20 percent then ::: i installed battery saver app from kss mobile inc itunes and i make it running all the time in background .it my made my last percent = 50 percent now iam ver happy it lasts more then 5 hour on comlete usage....🙂

Yes, After some try on the community member suggest idea and trick.

It still not work out well.

Advise from community member try few time on the feedback channel link.

The feedback can't get though.

or the iSO support Team member are not came to solve out the mess created on the iSO7.1?

Or this kind of Issue is Normal to them.

Please remember Good product still can spoiled the reputation,if the issue arise not handle well as happen on the few year back canon 1 series camera 1D MK3 Hope this not the case happen to apple.

Look forward latest update and less bug iSO update soon.

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!

The short version

Ran the battery down completely then plugged it in, using a genuine Apple wall charger. Charged it up without interruption and the problem is solved.

I honestly can't believe my nightmare is over, I've been suffering for weeks.

Be great if this works for everyone, I feel for you.

I've upgraded to iOS 7.1 recently. It drains my battery from 100 to 0 on a standby mode in 4 hrs. When I use it, it drains very faster. I hate this 7.1 iOS. I tried all the options spelled online

1. Switching off location and Background app refreshes

2. Drain battery completely and recharge from scratch

3. Restored the iphone to factory setting using itunes.

Nothing workes. My phone has passed 1 year mark and out of warranty. I'm going to the Apple store today. Not sure if they will fix this. Any suggestions welcome.

Yes yes what they have been trying to help is only"have you tried to restored it as new?" "Have you tried to turn of bg refresh and loc service?" "Have u tried to reduce motion?" " have u tried turn it off and on again?"

Lucky they didnt ask "have u throw it to the floor and turn it on again?"

I would say yes

Apple tech representative decided to give me an exception and approved an exchange with a service unit (with no additonal cost). I took it to the store last week. The store representative did a battery diag again as part of the procedure and brought a replacement iphone 5 packed in a different type of box.

The box didn't look like the real iphone 5 box and when she took the sticker off the box, I found that the phone had lost of dust over it. Also, it had scratches around. I've claimed that it was a refurbished phone. I requested her to give me a better clean phone without any scratches. She was kind enough and brought three other boxes and we opened every box and compared them to pick a better refurbished phone which apple calls as 'Service Unit'

Also, I selected a phone and found that it had iOS 7.0.4 pre-installed. I asked the representative not to upgrade it.

Atleast, I got a better phone now with a older version of iOS and 90 days warranty on it.

The tech representative followed up on this issue in email. I thanked him for replacing my out of warranty device. he said that, if there was any hardware failure, he would've authorized to replace it with a new phone instead of a service unit.

The battery is much better now. It goes from 100% to 0% in 20hrs roughly with moderate usage.

I follow simple strategy

1. Switch of Cellular Data 4G when I'm not going to use the phone for few hours.

2. When I come back to home, I use WiFi and switch off Cellular Data 4G.

3. Stopped Background App refresh completely

4. Stopped Location Services

5. Close all the apps running in background as soon as I'm done using them

6. Uninstalled facebook, other heavy loaded apps.

7. Didn't upgrade it to iOS 7.1

8. Disabled notification - banner services for many apps. But kept the Badge icon active.

9. Charge the phone only when it reaches below 20% battery.

10. Switch off bluetooth when not in use.

I made the mistake of downloading the newest update (7.1.1) that was supposed to fix the battery problem. Seems to have made it worse. I think the last update actually evened out and I think it was doing better. Shouldn't have gotten this one. Again, down 9% in 40 minutes. Hopefully this one will fix itself too. I'll try to get it down to 10% and then get it back to full charge. Sigh.

Yes, I've read an article said, Apple claiming that iOS7.1.1 fixed the battery issue, I was tempted to upgrade my iOS 7.0.4 to iOS 7.1.1. However, I decided to defer it. You could've waited to see other's feedback about iOS 7.1.1.

I have less hopes on new upgrades to fix battery issues. I would suggest you to request for a replacement. You may be given a refurbished one but it may be better in terms of battery. Just make sure you get it with older version of iOS.

Good Luck

On my case , i sent in my iphone 5 for Checking after a while of upgrade to ISO 7.1, as the Iphone 5 screen has pop tilted aside. while serving net it got heat up very fast and drain the battery juice like no one care.Checked by the appointed apple technical staff. the battery is bloasted. It advise for the exchange a unit.Back home updated the exchange unit to ISO 7.1.1. the battery drain matter is solved.it may the unit with a younger battery life or a new battery in the exchange unit.

i bought my iphone on the around september last year the phone was really great till the 7.1 update since them am having a severe battery drain and since i bought my iphone from the us i cant have warranty on it so i took it to local shope who confirm its a battery problem so he changed the battery and the drain did't change so it one of two things

- the unite that did dapple sold it first have a problem or

- its a software problem regarding specific type of devices

btw my device came with a verizon sim so since apple not doing any thing about the problem could any one help my to start collecting data regarding the device that having a problem

please list the date of purchase and what carrier

maybe we could enclose where the problem is

thanks

K.

Is anyone still having this problem? It's May 30th, 2014. I don't see new posts since April. This has only just started happening to my iPad in the last week or so, BEFORE I upgraded my ipad to 7.1.1. I upgraded my ipad to 7.1.1 last night and today it is still having battery problems. I will follow the procedure mentioned by Mark Piaskiewicz1 later tonight. I just find it odd that while my ipad was still on 7.1.0 it was fine for a long time and then just week or two ago, *before* upgrading to 7.1.1 it just starts happening, seemingly out of the blue.