iPhone 5 battery draining quickly since updating to iOS 7.x

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iPhone 5 battery draining quickly since updating to iOS 7.x

Ever since I upgraded to iOS 7.x, I have had nothing but horrible battery life. I have had consistent issues with the phone dying at 20% battery and have even experienced times when the battery is at 35% and the phone immediately dies after being in airplane mode. I have disabled all of the neat features in iOS 7, such as background refresh, active wallpaper, location services and so on. I even make sure to close apps out constantly. Another thing I have done is disabled cellular data when I am at home so that my phone is not pinging the network as much. With all of this, I still have horrible battery life. iOS 6 was a thousand times better and most of the time I was able to get 2 days worth of use on a single charge. Now I am lucky if I get 5 hours at night. Is there anyone else that has this issue and know of a workaround? I welcome any input.

iPhone 5, iOS 7.1

Posted on Mar 14, 2014 5:41 PM

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Phildvegas Author

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Mar 14, 2014 10:09 PM in response to Phildvegas

I have also tried using a very low brightness, within reason, and it has not changed the battery life too much. This OS is appealing, but somewhere in the background it is sucking juice like crazy.

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Phildvegas Author

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Mar 14, 2014 10:11 PM in response to Phildvegas

Oops, I did not mean to hit that button! My question is NOT solved...

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diesel vdub

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Mar 15, 2014 3:41 AM in response to Phildvegas

Basic troubleshooting from the User's Guide is reset, restart, restore (first from backup then as new). Try each of these in order until the issue is resolved.

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Mar 15, 2014 4:02 AM in response to diesel vdub

I still have the same issues, as well as my wife on her phone. We didn't have this issue on iOS 7.0x, only after updating to 7.1. Her phone said 1% for hours; we were hoping to power cycle but it would not die. I finally plugged it in to charge and the battery immediately shot up to 30%. Something in the new version, not a hardware issue.

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diesel vdub

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Mar 15, 2014 4:09 AM in response to inbrightestday

inbrightestday wrote:

phone said 1% for hours; we were hoping to power cycle but it would not die. I finally plugged it in to charge and the battery immediately shot up to 30%. Something in the new version, not a hardware issue.

No, it is not a hardware issue. It is simply a battery display issue. A reset or restart of the device typically resolves the issue.

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Mar 15, 2014 5:26 AM in response to diesel vdub

We have tried that on each, doesn't fully resolve it. Don't believe me? Do you want to come over here and see for yourself? This is so frustrating.

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Phildvegas Author

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Mar 15, 2014 7:09 AM in response to diesel vdub

I wish it were that easy, but that did not work. I tried that after upgrading to iOS 7 and it didn't work. I have tried it with each update and it has not worked.

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diesel vdub

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Mar 15, 2014 9:34 AM in response to Phildvegas

Then it is time to take the device to Apple for evaluation. The vast majority of users never experience any issues.

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